Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Hose, Half Hose, and the like
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Sept., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 8th June, 1898-Accepted, 8th Sept.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Hose, Half
Hose, and the like.
I, WILLIAM GOLDIE, Hosiery Manufacturer, The Hollies, Mansfield, Notts, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An improved method of producing French, or one seam feet, on hose, half hose and
the like in the following manner, viz:The leg with heel, but without instep, having
been made by the ordinary method upon a rotary or "Cotton's" patent hose frame,
I run the inner edges of heel and instep end of leg on to transfer bars, and from such
transfer bars, I transfer back to same frame, I then commence making the foot which
is formed in one piece, being narrowed near the instep and fashioned towards the toe,
and requires only the two edges of the fabric thus produced to be seamed together
and turned off at toe and heel to form a French or one seam foot; the narrowings
and fashionings being executed by the ordinary narrowing notion of a rotary hosiery
frame, the narrowing points being sufficient in number to place a straight row of
narrowings in the centre of each side towards and reaching to end of toe; the
advantage being that both leg and foot can be made on the same frame, and without
any addition except an increase in the number of the narrowing points used.
Dated this 7th day of September 1897.
WILLIAM GOLDIE.
Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Hose, Half
Hose, and the like.
I, WILLIAM GOLDIE, The Hollies, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, Hosiery Manu-
facturer, 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 leg with heels but without instep having been made by the ordinary method
upon a rotary or Cotton's patent hose frame, I run the inner edges of heels and instep
end of leg at the points A B C as on Figure 3 on to transfer bars, and from such
transfer bars I transfer back to same or other similar frame, I then commence making
the foot, which is formed in one piece, being narrowed near the instep and fashioned
towards the toe as shewn at A A on Figures Nos. 1 and 2 on the accompanying
drawing and requires only the two edges of the fabric thus produced to be seamed
together and turned off at toe and heel to form a foot free from side seams and with
one seam which in wear lies under the hollow of the foot as shewn at B on Fig. 2 of
the drawing before referred to. The narrowings and fashionings being executed by
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page_text: the ordinary narrowing motion of a rotary hosiery frame, the narrowing points being
sufficient in number to place a straight row of narrowings at each side towards and
reaching to the end of toe.
The advantage being that both leg and foot can be made on the same frame with-
out any addition except an increase in the number of the narrowing points used, or,
upon a French footing frame, while the article produced being fashioned to the shape
or the human foot and being free from side seams gives the maximum of comfort
obtainable in foot hosiery.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performned, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1st. A method of producing by the process above described on an ordinary Cotton's
patent hosiery frame an improved form of one seamed foot applicable to hose half hose
and the like.
2nd. An improved form of one seamed foot, as aforesaid, which can be made on an
ordinary French footing frame, by the process above described.