Improvements in Stockings.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1892-Accepted, 11th June, 1892
ט עבעע VVI
[Communicated from abroad by WALTER CARR LEWIS, of 33, Dwight Street,
Boston, County of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, United States of
America, Hosiery Manufacturer.]
Improvements in Stockings.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake, & Co., Patent
Agents 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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:—
This invention relates to stockings of the kind known as rights and lefts that
is to say, pairs in which the stockings are made one to fit the right foot and the
other to fit the left.
It is found in practice that it is desirable that there should be some means
whereby the wearer may distinguish quickly by the sense of touch between the
right and left stockings. The difference in the construction of the two stockings
is visible at the toes, but as they are often put on hastily and by a dim light, and
as they are often found in the drawer with the foot portion folded or tucked in,
and moreover as the shape of the toes is not readily apparent unless the stockings
lie flat and open it is desirable that the designating means should be apparent not
only to the eye, but to the sense of touch. The present invention is also very useful
in the factory where it can be used as a means of mating the stockings.
The nature of the invention is fully described below and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawing in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a right stocking of a pair of right and left
stockings, and
Figure 2 is a front elevation of the left stocking.
The right stocking is constructed as usual. The left stocking is provided near
its upper end with a thickened portion A. This thickened portion or protuberance
is made during the process of manufacture by massing more yarn at that point.
I prefer to make this portion A in the form of an annular rib at a short distance
from and parallel with the upper edge of the stocking. The length, width and
shape, however, of this protuberance or rib, are not essential, so long as there is
sufficient additional thickness therein to be quickly apparent to the touch. The
position near the upper edge of the stocking is preferable, as that is the portion
usually grasped by the wearer in putting it on, and hence the portion at which a
thickened spot or ring would be most quickly apparent to the touch.
Of course this thickened portion may be applied either to the right or to the
left stocking, but not to both, the left however, being preferred, and the rib may
extend entirely or partially around the stocking, as deemed desirable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A pair of right and left stockings one only of which is provided with a relatively
thick rib near the top or upper edge, whereby one stocking can be distinguished
from the other by the sense of touch substantially as set forth.
2. A pair of right and left stockings one only of which is provided with a

page_text: relatively thick annular rib near the top or upper edge, whereby one stocking can
be distinguished from the other by the sense of touch, substantially as described.
Dated this 10th day of May 1892.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.

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