Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1886.
Complete Left, 19th. Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 7th June, 1887.
We, THOMAS MORLEY, and THOMAS MORLEY, the younger, trading as, Thomas
Morley, and Son, of No. 122 Highcross Street Leicester, in the county of Leicester,
Hosiery Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of stockings and socks,
or half hose and the like to bring into more general use the hand frame, or machines
made with bearded needles, for articles made in plain or ribbed frames and producing
plain and ribbed hose and the like to make a wrought hose with a seamless heel and
foot combined that is, with no seams from the commencement after the heel is
rounded until the narrowings are put in at the toe and to make what is called "Welsh
Knit," and this name we apply to the articles to be made in accordance with this
invention, whether in stockings or socks made on the hand frame or in circular
machines, with bearded needles, or other kinds, as far as the leg is concerned, when
made upon the hand frame or ordinary knitting frame, having a straight or rotary
movement, when we come to that part of the heel to be rounded, we use a slido
presser, to press off a certain number of loops on each side of that portion that
is to form the bottom of the heel, and after, the sides are picked up, or linked up,
and the heel is cleared then each loop is put on a loop wheel frame, or bearded needle
circular frame and the foot is made free from narrowings and without a seam, until
the Toe is reached, then without a seam, until the narrowings are put in, in the
ordinary manner, and then the toe is finished.
If it is desired to put this combined seamless heel and foot upon legs made in
circular machines with fashioned legs or not, at the place desired where the heel has
to be made the loops are cleared and put on the needles, and when the rounding of the
heel is to be made, the slide presser is brought into use-then the article is put on
to the loop wheel frame and the foot made in the manner as before described.
Dated this 22nd don of Inne 1886
WILLIAM BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Stockings and Socks.
We, THOMAS MORLEY Senr. and THOMAS- MORLEY Junior, Trading as Thomas
Morley and Son, of No. 122 High Cross Street Leicester, in the county of 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of Stockings and socks,
or half-hose and the like, to bring into more general use the hand frame, or ordinary
straight frame, or machines made to knit with bearded needles, or self acting needles
the latter arranged so as the loops are held in their hooks without pressing off for
articles that are made in plain or ribbed frames working with one or more sets of
needles, and producing plain and ribbed hose and the like. Our Invention is, for
making a wrought hose, half-hose or sock with a seamless heel and foot combined that
there be no seam at the back of the goods at the heel as in ordinary wrought
goods after the loops in the bottom of the leg are cleared for heeling, and
put upon needles in the heeling frame, that the heel is made without a seam up
the back after the heel is rounded and to be made in machines of the character
herein described, and to make what is called "Welsh Knit," and this name we
use to distinguish these goods from ordinary seamed goods-which will be
well understood have a seam at the back part of the heel and the seam running
in the centre at the bottom of the heel. By this our Invention, we obviate this,
by making the goods in parts, and complete them, that they have a seamless heel
and foot, though the legs be seamed-which is effected in the following manner―
after the legs are made to the desired length the cleared loops of the back portion,
or about half of the number of loops that the leg contains, are put upon the same
number of needles in a heeling frame-a piece nearly square is then knitted on, and
in making the heel, from the, said square piece we take nearly a third of the loops
running each way from the centre, which are cleared, and the knitting is continued
until the ends of the square piece are reached and after the rounding is completed
thus forming the bag heel, with no Seam at back or under the heel the whole is
then transfered on to the needles in a Circular loop wheel frame, or other circular
machines if so desired-and the foot is worked, without narrowings or a seam, except
if the Toe is required to be fashioned then the article is again transfered to a Toeing
frame, and the Toe is made without a hard Seam; by bringing the narrowings close
together and putting less points in, then the few remaining loops at the end of the Toe
are looped together, and there is no binder off when the Toe is finished-the same
combined seamless heel and foot.may be attached or put upon legs made in
other kind of frames, than the hand frame, or
upon seamless legs if so
desired. The heel and foot being made in the same manner as hereinbefore
described. That our invention may be more clearly understood we will now refer to

page_text: the accompanying drawings. Figure 1 is an exterior view of the side of a wrought,
or fashioned stocking showing no seam from the Top of the heel at A to the bottom of
the foot the parts from A to B1 and B2 being put together with the straight loops B³
when the foot is knitted up to C, and if a fashioned Toe is required it is then transfered
to the Toeing frame, and the Toc is completed by the few loops at D being brought
together. Figure 2 is a Diagram of the back part of a stocking made in accordance
with this Invention. Figure 3 is another side view of a stocking-the cleared loops
from A to B and side loops B' to B2 and straight loops B³ being put upon needles, as
before described for the foot to be knitted on, the dotted lines shewing the knitted
stitches in the several parts put together to make the seamless heel and foot. It will
be seen that Fig. 2 & 3 shew the parts in a Triangular shape this is the shape, after
being trimmed on legs. The Tops of the Stockings, socks, or half hose are put on in
the ordinary manner-for rounding the heel a slide presser, or swing carrier frame is
used to press off the number of loops required. The sides being picked, or linked up
and the heel is cleared, this Invention can be carried out on other Knitting
Machines, than hereinbefore described, or the combination of the straight or rotary
machines such as "Cottons" and the like with the circular machines for attaching the
foot and using both bearded and self-acting needles, when the latter are employed the
hook of the needles are made that no pressing off occurs when the knitting together
commences.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :
The construction of wrought, and unwrought hose, half hose or socks having a
combined heel and foot and manufactured substantially in the manner hereinbefore
described and set forth.