Improvements in or relating to Knitted Ribbed Fabrics.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th July, 1891-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Knitted Ribbed Fabrics.
I, GEORGE PADMORE, Junior, of Rutland Street, Leicester, Hosiery Manu-
facturer, 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 close or fill up the holes which are at present a
defect in ribbed fabric at the point where additional needles are introduced or
brought into action at the junction of a narrow and wide rib.
The invention can be applied to any of the usual combinations of ribs such
as 1 & 1 on a 2 and 1, 2 & 1 on a 3 and 1, 2 & 2 on a 3 and 2 etc.
Hitherto as is well known where a narrow rib has been increased to a broader rib
by bringing extra needles into work a larger or smaller hole has been left in the
fabric and the object of the present invention is to close or fill up this hole so as to
present a perfect and continuous fabric.
This is accomplished by filling up the hole with a thread or threads introduced so
as to lie across it and the insertion of these threads may be accomplished in the
following manner :-
The invention may be carried out upon either circular or straight bar machines.
The narrow or smaller rib can be made in the ordinary manner and I then lower
the frame or ordinary bottom needles with the loops made on them to such a level
that they do not clear the loops made but have the thread placed upon them for one
or more courses. The machine or upper needles make ordinary courses during the
time that the lower or bottom needles make the course or courses above described.
The thread or threads of such course or courses are laid in front of the lower or
bottom needles which have not cleared their loops but have the loop and thread or
threads of the course or courses on. I now bring into clearance action again these
needles by raising the cam to the original position and bring into action at the same
time an additional set of needles which form the wider rib and which begin to knit
so as to connect the narrow with the wider rib, the course or courses already
described being at the immediate junction of the narrow and wide ribs and lying
across the holes caused by the introduction of the additional needles; by this
means I am enabled to give to the fabric a pleasing appearance and to make the
junction of the narrow and wide ribs without showing spaces where the extra
needles come into operation.
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. In a knitted rib fabric filling or closing the holes at the junction of the narrow
and wide ribs substantially as described.
2. In a knitted rib fabric the employment of threads placed across the holes
caused by adding needles to make a wider rib substantially as and for the purpose
specified.
3. A knitted rib fabric having the holes made when additional needles are used
to widen the rib filled or closed up by means of a thread or threads laid across the
holes.
4. In the manufacture of knitted ribbed fabric the method of filling or closing
the holes at the junction of the narrow and broad ribs which consists in not clearing

page_text: the frame needles upon the completion of the narrow rib and then bringing into
action the extra needles required for the wide rib substantially as described.
Dated this Sixteenth day of July 1891.
GEO. PADMORE, JUNIOR.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.