Improvements in Socks and Stockings.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1892-
Complete Specification Left 18th Dec. 1802-Accepted, 21st Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Socks and Stockings.
We SAMUEL DAVIS and FRANK MOORE, Hosiery Manufacturers, both of
67, Granby Street, Leicester in the County of Leicester do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to socks and stockings and has for its object to increase
the durability of such goods by providing increased thickness of material at those
parts as for instance at the sole and the heel where the greatest wear occurs.
According to our said invention we form the parts which are to be thickened of
two separate thicknesses of fabric, one of the said thicknesses being added after the
sock or stocking is knit. The added sole and heel or other part may be worked to
the ordinary sole and heel by knitting, or in any other suitable manner.
improved socks and stockings may be manufactured in hand machine knitters of
seamless goods or on the ordinary circular or rotary power knitting frame.
Dated this 16th day of March 1899
Our
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Socks and Stockings.
We SAMUEL DAVIS, and FRANK MOORE, Hosiery Manufacturers both of
67 Granby Street, Leicester in the County of Leicester 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 :-
This invention relates to socks and stockings and has for its object to increase
the durability of such goods by providing increased thickness of material at those
parts as for instance at the sole and the heel and toe where the greatest wear
occurs.
According to our said invention we form the parts which are to be thickened of
two or more but preferably two separate thicknesses of fabric, the thickness or
thicknesses being added after the sock or stocking is knit. The added sole and
heel or other part may be worked to the ordinary sole and heel by knitting, or in
any other suitable manner. Our improved socks and stockings may be manufactured
in hand machine knitters of seamless goods, or on the ordinary circular or rotary
power knitting frame.
In the accompanying drawing we have shown a sock provided with a double sole
and heel A, A according to our invention.
In the manufacture of such a sock we first knit an ordinary sock and then add
thereto the additional sole and heel A, A which may be worked in by knitting or
by sewing or in any other suitable manner. Such a sock or stocking is more
durable than one of single thickness and is also much warmer.
It is obvious that we may similarly provide a stocking with a double or treble
thickness of fabric at the toe.
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,
A sock or stocking having a double or multiple heel or sole, or toe, or any two

page_text: of these parts, or heel; sole, and toe, substantially as described, for the purpose
specified.
Dated this 16th day of December 1892.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicants.