IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STOCKINGS IN CIRCULAR KNITTING FRAMES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Appleton, of 296, Lower Broughton
Road, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STOCKINGS IN CIRCULAR
KNITTING FRAMES.”
Sealed the 29th January 1875, and dated the 19th August 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Appleton at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 19th August 1874.
I, THOMAS APPLETON, of 296, Lower Broughton Road, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STOCKINGS IN CIRCULAR
KNITTING FRAMES," to be as follows:-
:―
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
stockings in circular knitting frames.

page_text: circular frame. This defect is only very imperfectly remedied or con-
cealed by blocking and steaming the work after it leaves the loom.
Now according to my Invention I make stockings on the circular
frame which are when leaving the loom more roomy in the upper part
of the leg than in the lower. This I do by changing the stitch. The
lower part of the leg, which is required of the smaller size, I make with
a plain stitch, using a presser, which presses every needle at each passage,
but for the upper part of the leg, which is required to be more roomy, I
produce an ornamental and more open description of work by causing
the presser to omit to press certain of the needles from time to time.
When a stocking thus made in the loom has been blocked and steamed
its form will be very nearly as good as that of a stocking made on a
narrowing.frame.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Appleton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th February 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
APPLETON, of 296, Lower Broughton Road, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Appleton, Her
special license that I, the said Thomas Appleton, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Appleton,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
** IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STOCKINGS IN CIRCULAR KNITTING
FRAMES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas
Appleton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly

page_text: describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Appleton, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
stockings in circular knitting frames.
As stockings are at present made in circular knitting frames the leg
is of the same size all the way up, for narrowing is not practicable on
the circular frame. This defect is only very imperfectly remedied or
concealed by blocking and steaming the work after it leaves the loom.
Now according to my Invention I make stockings on the circular
frame which are when leaving the loom more roomy in the upper part
of the leg than in the lower. This I do by changing the stitch. The
lower part of the leg, which is required of the smaller size, I make with
a plain stitch, using a presser, which presses every needle at each passage,
but for the upper part of the leg, which is required to be more roomy, I
produce an ornamental and more open description of work by causing
the presser to omit to press certain of the needles from time to time.
This I do by using a spaced presser wheel, as is well understood. When
a stocking thus made in the loom has been blocked and steamed its
form will be very nearly as good as that of a stocking made on a
narrowing frame.
What I claim is the manufacture of stockings in circular knitting
frames, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Appleton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
THO³. APPLETON. (L.S.)