Improvements in Stockings and Socks.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 16th May, 1891-Accepted, 20th June, 1891
PROVISIONAI. SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stockings and Socks.
I, HENRY WARRY of No. 3 Birnbeck Terrace Weston-super-Mare in the
County of Somerset Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :-
The manufacture of stockings and socks in two distinct, separate, and complete
parts or portions, adapted for attachment to each other, and forming, when so
attached, a complete stocking or sock as the case may be; The said parts or
portions being also adapted for detachment from each other, and attachment to other
suitable and similar parts or portions of a stocking or sock.
Of the above mentioned two parts or portions, one part or portion shall consist of
all the sole, from the extremity of the heel, to the end of the toe, and of all the
heel, up to a point at, or near, the bend of the foot at the back of the ankle, and
thence obliquely downward and forward on either side to the sole; and of all the
toe, to a line running across the bend, or near it, and thence on either side to
the sole.
The lines of the heel may also run from the point at, or near, the bend of the foot
at the back of the ankle, previously mentioned, horizontally forward on either side,
to a point at, or near, the projection of the ankle, and then downward vertically to
the sole.
The other part or portion of the two parts or portions previously mentioned, shall
consist of all and so much of a stocking or sock as is not included in, or by, the
the leg, ankle, instep, upper
part or portion previously described; that is to say,
part of the foot, and sides of the foot.
The two parts or portions of any stocking or sock, as previously described, may
be attached or united to each other, so as to form a complete stocking or sock as
the case may be, in any suitable manner, such as by sewing, or otherwise, and with
material in all respects similar to that employed in the manufacture of the
two parts or portions of such stocking or sock, or with any other suitable
material.
The object of this invention is, to produce stockings and socks so constructed, that
when required, the worn parts, which are commonly the heel, sole, and toe, may
be detached in one part or portion, from the leg, ankle, instep, upper part of the
foot, and sides of the foot, which, as before mentioned form the other part or portion
of such stocking or sock, and at a trifling expense replaced by new.
The detachment from each other, of the two parts or portions forming any
stocking or sock, may be effected by withdrawing the material used in their
attachment.
The replacement of a worn part or portion of any stocking or sock, by a new part
or portion, may be effected in a similar manner to that employed in uniting the
parts or portions originally forming such stocking or sock.
Dated this Twelfth day of March 1891.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stockings and Socks.
I HENRY WARRY of 3 Birnbeck Terrace Weston-super-Mare in the County
of Somerset Gentleman, 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 :―
My invention relates to improvements in stockings and socks, and has for its
object the production of stockings and socks so fashioned and constructed that,
when required, the worn portions-which are commonly the heel, sole, and toe-
may be readily removed, and re-placed by new.
The object of my invention is attained by constructing stockings and socks in two
distinct, separate, and complete, parts or portions, adapted for attachment to each
other, and forming when so attached, complete stockings and socks; the said two
parts or portions being also adapted for detachment from each other, and attach-
ment to other suitable and similar parts or portions of stockings and socks.
The division between the two parts or portions of any stocking or sock I make
in the foot thereof, as represented by the line A B C D in the drawing accompanying
this Specification-the letters thereon, and the line to which they refer, are to be
taken as equally applicable to either side of a stocking or sock-whereby it is
intended to be shown that, one part or portion of a stocking or sock shall consist of
all the heel, all the lower part of the foot, and sole, and all the toe; the other part
or portion consisting of all and so much, as is not included in or by the part or
portion above described, that is to say, the leg, instep, and upper part of foot.
I carry out my invention practically, by knitting and fashioning stockings and
socks with divided feet, in the manner following; I commence and proceed,
according to the size of the stocking or sock I intend to produce, in the ordinary
manner, that is to say in any manner in common use, until the required length for
the leg has been knitted, and the point A is reached, which is in the bend behind,
at the upper part of the heel; 1 now form a selvedge by casting off half the
stitches, taking the point A as the centre of the said selvedge, which must extend
to the point B on each side of the foot, I now, with the remaining stitches, knit
forwards the required width and length to form the instep, and upper part of
foot, as indicated by the line B C, until the point C is reached, 1 then cast off
all the stitches, forming a selvedge in the usual manner, the centre of the said
selvedge being at D; the upper part or portion of the stocking or sock, as the
case may be, will now be complete. To knit the lower part or portion of the
stocking or sock, I cast on a number of stitches, corresponding to those I cast
off to form the selvedge at the point A, as previously mentioned, and proceed to
knit what is required for the heel, and to fashion the said heel in any manner in
common use, I then knit forwards what is required to form the lower part of the
foot, and sole, fashioning the work in any usual manner as requisite to the
point C, and causing the work to correspond on the line B C, with that part,
of the upper part or portion of the stocking or sock, also indicated by the
line BC, as before mentioned; I now knit what is required to form the toe, and
I fashion the said toc in any manner in common use, and on reaching the line CD,
I cast off all the stitches, and form a selvedge having its centre at D, and corre-
sponding to the selvedge I formed at C D, for the upper part or portion of the
stocking or sock, as previously described. The lower part or portion of the stocking
or sock will now be complete. The upper and lower parts or portions of the
stocking or sock are now to be joined together at, and throughout the line A B CD,
I effect this union by sewing, or by any other means in common use, and with the
same description of material as that used in knitting the aforesaid two parts or
portions of the stocking or sock, or with any other material suited to the purpose,
in such manner that the said two parts or portions of the stocking or sock may at

page_text: any time be severed, or disunited, by withdrawing the material employed for
uniting them, but at the same time leaving them uninjured by such severance or
disunion. The stocking or sock, as the case may be, will now be complete.
I wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not bind myself to the precise
position of the line A B C D, nor to the precise configuration of the two parts or
portions of any stocking or sock, nor to the character, style, or extent, of any
selvedge, nor to the manner of forming the heel, or toe, nor to the manner of uniting
the two parts or portions of any stocking or sock as herein described and shown;
but, I hold myself at liberty to vary my procedure in all or any of these matters
and things, in such manner as may seem to me desirable, so far as the said variation
falls fairly within the spirit and scope of this my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
(1) The division of the foot; substantially as herein described and shown.
(2) The two parts or portions of the divided foot; substantially as herein
described and shown.
(3) The union of the two parts or portions of the divided foot; substantially as
herein described and set forth.
(4) Complete stockings and socks having divisible feet; substantially as herein
described and set forth.
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HENRY WARRY.