Improvements in the Manufacture of Men's and Boys' Knitted Drawers.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 22nd Sept., 1894
COMPLETE DIEUITIVATION,
Improvements in the Manufacture of Men's and Boys' Knitted
Drawers.
I, ROBERT METCALF APPLETON, of 24 Kingston Street, Boston, County of
Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, United States of America, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to.
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The common method of manufacturing men's and boys' knitted drawers consists.
in making them from a fabric which has been knitted upon a machine, the diameter-
of whose cylinder is equal to the width of the stock required to construct two.
or more drawer-legs, that is the circumference of the cylinder equals the combined
circumferences of the two drawer-legs. This allows a body and leg part to be cut
at one end and the same at the other end of the knitted fabric, the cutting being
done by dividing the fabric leaving a body and leg portion at each end. The legs.
are then sewed up and finished. This process requires considerable skill and
accurate judgment, and moreover it necessitates quite a proportion of waste.
My invention consists in knitting drawer-legs on machines having cylinders of
different diameters corresponding to men's and boys' sizes thus producing whole or
tubular legs, then slitting or cutting the tubular product from the top edge down to.
the point where the gusset is to be applied, then connecting two of the knitted
tubes together to form the body part by uniting one edge of the slit in one tube to
one edge of that in another tube, then applying the gusset and trimming the ankle,.
and finishing in the usual manner.
This leaves the leg portions seamless with the exception of a few trimmed inches.
at the ankle.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 shows the tubular product as it comes from the cylinder of the knitting-
machine;
Figure 2 shows the same provided with the opening ready to be joined to
another with a similar opening;
Figure 3 shows the two joined at the back part by stitching A and provided with.
the gusset B, broken lines C showing the lines of trimming at the ankles; and
Figure 4 shows the completed drawers after boarding and finishing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is;-
The herein-before described improved process for making men's and boys'
drawers, consisting of, first, knitting tubular drawer legs on a cylinder in a knitting--
machine, then slitting them longitudinally down from the top ends to the points at
which the gusset is to be applied, then connecting one edge of the slit of one tube
with one edge of the slit of another tube to form the back, and then applying the
gusset at the lower edge of the opening thus produced and trimming the ankles and
finishing in the ordinary manner.
Dated this Seventh day of August 1894.
ROBERT METCALF APPLETON.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant..