An Improved Knitting Needle for Knitting Stockings, Socks, Cuffs, and other like Garments.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 29th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Knitting Needle for Knitting Stockings, Socks, Cuffs,
and other like Garments.
WILLIAM ARTHUR HEYES, 213, Manchester Road, Stoneclough, near Man-
chester, Lancashire, England, Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
An improved method of constructing and using a single needle, whereby stockings,
socks, cuffs, or other like garments can be knitted on one needle only. To attain
this end I make the needle of flexible steel spring, whalebone, horn, or other suitable
material, for ordinary stockings the length will be about nine inches by one sixteenth
of an inch in diameter, and bend the same into a circle causing both ends to cross
each other at right angles for about a quarter of an inch. By means of the
arrangement described, obtain a perfect safety knitting needle, which can be
used by children or grown up persons without danger of causing injury to themselves
or others, as is the result when using four or more needles. The usual number of
stitches being cast on it will be found that they will extend round the needle
meeting at the point where the ends of needle cross; knitting is then commenced in
the usual manner and proceeded with.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of November 1893.
WILLIAM ARTHUR HEYES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Knitting Needle for Knitting Stockings, Socks, Cuffs,
and other like Garments.
WILLIAM ARTHUR HEYES 275 Ormskirk Road Newtown Wigan Lancashire,
England, (late of 213 Manchester Road, Stoneclough, near Manchester,) Electrical
Engineer, 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 invention consists in an improved method of constructing a single needle,
whereby stockings, socks, cuffs and other like garments, can be knitted on one
needle only, instead of using, two, three, four, or five needles as at present used.
To attain this end I make the needle of flexible spring steel, whalebone, horn, or
other like inaterial, of suitable length and diameter. For ordinary stockings the
length will be about nine inches, by one sixteenth of an inch in diameter, and bend
the same into a circle causing both ends to cross each other at right angles for
about a quarter of an inch. By means of the arrangement described I obtain a
perfect safety knitting needle, which can be used by children or grown up persons
without danger of causing injury to themselves or others, as is the result when
using four or more needles. The usual number of stitches being cast on, it will be
found that they will extend round the needle, meeting at the points where the
ends of needle cross. Knitting is then commenced in the usual way and proceeded
with.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
(1.) A single knitting needle so formed as to enable a stocking to be knitted
complete with only one needle.
Dated this 25th day of August 1694.
WILLIAM ARTHUR HEYES.