ents in the Manufacture of Stockings, Socks, and other Knitted Articles.
Year: 1890

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Application, 15th Nov., 1890
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Application, 15th Nov., 1890
ICATION.
TOUT
ents in the Manufacture of Stockings, Socks, and other
Knitted Articles.
We, EDWIN HODGSON WYNNE, CHARLES HENRY WYNNE, and EDWIN
HOLDSWORTH WYNNE, trading as Wynne & Sons, of Leicester and South Wigston
in the County of Leicester, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements in the manufacture of seamless
stockings socks and other seamless knitted articles such as are produced upon
circular knitting machines the object being to produce the articles mentioned with
a different combination of ribs than, as far as we are aware, have heretofore been
produced upon these machines.
The usual number of ribs in knitted articles ordinarily made upon circular
knitting machines has varied between 1 and 1, and 4 and 2 ribs but we now find it
desirable to manufacture stockings and other articles having two and one, or one
and one, ribs in combination with ribs greater or broader than the two ribs already
nentioned.
In order to carry this invention into effect we arrange the needles in the frame
ylinder and machine portion of the knitter in such order and positions as to
roduce the combination ribs referred to, and which form the subject of this
vention.
Dated this 15th day of November 1890
w. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicants
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Stockings, Socks, and other
Knitted Articles.
5. We, EDWIN HODGSON WYNNE, CHARLES HENRY WYNNE, and EDWIN
HOLDSWORTH WYNNE, trading as Wynne and Sons, Mount Road, 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 ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has reference to improvements in the manufacture of seamless
stockings, socks, and the like goods, such as are produced upon circular reversible
knitting machines, the object being to produce such goods with a different com-
bination of ribs, than as far as we are aware has heretofore been employed, so as to
obtain increased elasticity of the fabric and impart a special variety and improved
appearance to the article produced.
It has been the usual custom hitherto in manufacturing these goods on circular
eversible knitting machines to make them almost exclusively in two and one, three
nd one, or four and one ribs or in plain fabric.
Now according to our improved method of making seamless stockings, socks and
he like upon the class of knitting machine before referred to, we combine one or
ore narrow ribs such as one and one or two and one with some broader rib or ribs
ch for instance as four and one, five and one, or six and one ribs, and the broad
d narrow ribs may follow in alternation round the whole circle or tube of fabric
the broad or narrow ribs may preponderate to such extent as may be desired and
cording to the pattern required to be produced.
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In order to illustrate how the invention is to be carried out on a
Griswold" or
other circular reversible knitting machine, suppose, for instance, it be desired to
produce a stocking or sock the fabric of which is composed of alternations of one
and one and five and one ribs, then the needles would be arranged as follows vic. —
one needle in the cylinder and one in the ribbing dial, then five needles in the
cylinder and one in the ribbing dial, this combination being continued round the
whole circle of needles.
It will be evident that a large variety of different combinations or alternations of
broad and narrow ribs such as are hereinbefore referred to may be produced by
correspondingly disposing the needles in the cylinder and ribbing dial according to
the particular pattern or combination required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
The manufacture upon circular reversible knitting machines of stockings or socks
having a combination of broad and narrow ribs substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 14th day of August 1891.
EDWIN HODGSON WYNNE.
CHARLES HENRY WYNNE.
EDWIN HOLDSWORTH WYNNE.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicants.