Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1887.
Complete Left, 12th July, 1887. .
Complete Accepted, 19th Aug., 1887.
We, JAMES HEARTH, WALTER HEARTH, JOSEPH RAVEN and WILLIAM HENRY WILLIS
trading as James Hearth & Co., of Church Gate, Leicester, Hosiery Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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The object of our invention is to produce stockings without narrowings which shall
combine the advantages of fashioned hose and fit close and true to the leg, thereby
avoiding the loose and baggy appearance so common with unfashioned hose when
being worn.
To carry out our invention therefore we employ any kind of knitting machine capable
of producing hose and proceed in the ordinary way to make the leg portion of the
stocking of any desired guage of yarn.
At a certain point in the fabric preferably just at the bottom of the calf or at the
top of what is known as the small or narrow part of the leg we commence to use
a different yarn viz. a thinner or a finer guage yarn and of which the ankle or lower
part of the leg fabric is knitted and continued down to preferably the foot portion of
the hose.
The stouter yarn of which the upper part of the leg is formed is then resumed and
the fabric is footed in the usual way.
It will therefore be seen that the portion of the fabric in which the finer yarn is
used will be of a closer and firmer texture and capable of less tension than the other
parts of the hose and will consequently fit close to the narrow part of the leg and
afford an equally comfortable and sightly appearance to the wearer as what are known
as fashioned hose. A great saving of time and labour in the manufacture of stockings
bearing our improvements is effected, over the ordinary fashioned hose the same result
being obtained.
We do not confine ourselves strictly to the use of the two guages of yarn at the
parts before mentioned as we may, without departing from the principle of our
invention, use any number of different guages of yarn in such order and in such parts
of a stocking as may be desirable.
1007
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents.

page_text: We, JAMES HEARTH, WALTER HEARTH JOSEPH RAVEN, & WILLIAM HENRY WILLIS
trading as James Hearth & Co., Church Gate, Leicester, 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:-
The object of our Invention is to produce stockings without narrowings, which shall
combine the advantages of fashioned hose & fit close & true to the leg, thereby
avoiding the loose and baggy appearance, so common with unfashioned hose when
being worn.
To carry out our invention therefore we employ any kind of knitting machine
capable of producing hose and proceed in the ordinary way to make the leg portion of
the stocking of any
desired guage of yarn.
At a certain point in the fabric preferably just at the bottom of the calf or at the
top of what is known as the small or narrow part of the leg, we commence to use a
different yarn viz. a thinner or a finer guage yarn & of which the ankle or lower part
of the leg fabric is knitted, and continued down to preferably the foot portion of the
hose. The stouter yarn of which the upper part of the leg is formed is then resumed
& the fabric is footed in the usual way.
It will therefore be seen that the portion of the fabric in which the finer yarn is
used will be of a closer & firmer texture and capable of less tension than the other
parts of the hose, & will consequently fit close to the narrow part of the leg & afford
an equally comfortable & sightly appearance to the wearer, as what are known, as
fashioned hose. A great saving of time and labour in the manufacture of stockings
bearing our improvements is effected over the ordinary fashioned hose, the same result
being obtained.
We do not confine ourselves strictly to the use of the two guages of yarn, at the
parts before mentioned, as we may, without departing from the principle of our
invention use any number of different guages of yarn in such order & in such parts
of a stocking as may be desirable.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is :-
In the manufacture of hosiery the use or employment of different counts or thick-
nesses of yarn in certain places in the fabric substantially in the manner and for the
purpose described.