Improvements in the Manufacture of Knitted Drawers.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 24th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Knitted Drawers.
We, ROBERT SIM and ANDREW BROWN SIM, both of Stewarton, in the County of
Ayr, Scotland, Hosiery Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to the manufacture of knitted drawers, chiefly intended for
ladies wear, with shaped bodies or trunks and knitted bands.
Our improved drawers are formed with a shaped body or trunk, produced by
fashioning or otherwise, so as to fit the wearer with ease and comfort, and the band
thereof is knitted in a piece or pieces with the trunk, or the said band may be knitted
separately and subsequently attached to the trunk by any suitable means.
We may make our improved drawers from all classes of materials as for instance
from cotton silk or wool and the said knitted fabric may be plain or ribbed as
desired.
Dated this 27th day of October 1890.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Knitted Drawers.
We, ROBERT SIM and ANDREW BROWN SIM, both of Stewarton in the County of
Ayr Scotland, Hosiery Manufacturers, 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:-
Our invention relates to the manufacture of knitted drawers, chiefly intended for
ladies' wear, with shaped bodies or trunks and knitted bands.
Our improved drawers are formed with a shaped body or trunk, produced by
fashioning or otherwise, so as to fit the wearer with ease and comfort, and the band
thereof is knitted in a piece or pieces with the trunk, or the said band may be knitted
separately and subsequently attached to the trunk by any suitable means."
We prefer to shape the body or trunk of the drawers by widening or narrowing
the knitted fabric in the operation of knitting. In some instances, however, wo
produce the desired shape by knitting the body or trunk of the same width throughout
and then cutting and seaming the fabric as required.
To produce a knitted band of the desired thickness, we find it advantageous to
effect the knitting of the fabric in such a manner that it is longer than the finished
article, and to fold over the extra length and unite the edges thereof to the body or
trunk so as to form a knitted band of double thickness.
We may make our improved drawers from all classes of materials, as for instance
from cotton, silk or wool; and the said knitted fabric may be plain or ribbed as
desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we wish it understood that
we claim :-
First A pair of knitted drawers having the body or irunk fashioned or shaped and
having a knitted band, substantially as hereinbefore described.
Second-The manufacture of a pair of knitted drawers, wherein the body or trunk
is fashioned by widening or narrowing the fabric, and wherein the band is produced
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page_text: by knitting the fabric of greater length than the finished garment and then folding
over a portion of the said fabric and uniting it to the body or trunk, substantially as
hereinbefore described.
DIRECT CIRCL
ROBERT SIM.
ANDREW BROWN SIM.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicants.