Improvements in and connected with Stockings.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 7th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 17th Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Stockings.
ALBERT EDWARD KAY 5 Kinver Road Sydenham Kent Warehouseman do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A band to be either woven or sewn to the top of the stocking, & attached to the
said band shall be a buckle thus forming a strap to secure the stocking in its proper
position above the knee.
لعت
1003
ALBERT EDWARD KAY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Stockings.
I ALBERT EDWARD KAY of 5 Kinver Road, Sydenham in the County of Kent,
Warehouseman 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 object of this invention is to secure the stocking in its proper position above
the knee without the use of a loose garter.
The disadvantages arising from the use of loose garters and of suspenders for
keeping up stockings, is well known, and it is to avoid these disadvantages that I
propose to introduce a band which will be an integral part of the stocking, for the
reception of a buckle or equivalent fastening. This band I prefer to make elastic,
so that it will expand and contract like the fabric of which the leg of the stocking
is composed. I may however, introduce a rigid band, applying it in such manner
that the elasticity of the stocking is not materially interfered with.
In the accompanying drawing
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Fig. 1 is a side view of the combined stocking and band manufactured according
to my invention.
Fig. 2 is a view in diagram of the stocking with its band and buckle.
Fig. 3 shews a piece of knitted web constituting the upper portion of a stocking,
laid out flat, with thickened portions extending inward from the selvages and
constituting a band to receive fastening tabs.
In manufacturing stockings after the manner illustrated at Fig. 3, I knit in the
usual way the amount of fabric required above the band, viz., from a to b, and
continuing the knitting process, I proceed by means of the well known splicing
apparatus, to thicken the portions cc extending from the selvages inward, until the
width of the band required is attained. I then continue and complete the stocking
in the usual way.
It only then remains to attach to the thickened parts cc,
tabs d d, using one tab to carry a buckle, while the other is used to enter the buckle,
and hold the stocking tight on the leg.
Or in place of a buckle, a button and button hole may be used, or any other
approved fastening for connecting the tabs together.
By this means produce a band which is elastic, like the rest of the stocking
fabric, and as it forms part of the knitted fabric, cannot become displaced when
in use.
The stocking thus produced is made, as will be well understood, on the "straight
frame," and will have the designation of fashioned hose.
My invention also applies to hose made on the circular machine. In producing
this class of goods, I use what is known as a "turn-again" machine, and produce

page_text: the thickened portion of the stocking by reversing the rotation of the thread
carrier and other parts of the knitting mechanism.
Fig. 4 shews in diagram plan a section of the stocking taken in the line of the
band, the double sectioning marked c c indicating the thickened part, which extends
some two thirds around the stocking. To the extremities of this thickened part,
the tabs shewn by dots for receiving the buckle, or other fastening employed to
secure the stocking on the leg, are to be attached. The tabs in the above examples
may be made of elastic fabric, if desired, and attached to the stocking by "running
on," sewing, or otherwise, but this is not important, as sufficient elasticity is
obtained from the part c of the band, which is elastic, like the leg of the stocking
of which it forms an integral part.
When making the band of non-elastic material, I apply it to the stocking by
sewing it down at its opposite edges for a distance indicated by the diagram Fig. 5,
and I attach to the end or ends of the band, the buckle or other means of fastening
preferred. In this case I rely upon that portion of the stocking which lies between
the loose ends of the hand, to provide the give and contraction requisite for fitting
the stocking to the leg of the wearer without creases.
I may remark that stockings manufactured according to my invention may be
submitted to the process of washing without injury, a result which is not obtainable
where elastic threads are employed in connection with knitted fabrics.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The manufacture of stockings with fastening bands as an integral part thereof,
for the purpose above set forth, such bands being so made or applied as not to
interfere with, or materially affect, the elasticity of the leg of the stocking.
Dated thin 14 da
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1000
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.