Improvements in Knitted Pants, Drawers, and similar Garments.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 12th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 12th Jan.. 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Knitted Pants, Drawers, and similar Garments.
We, W. ROTHWELL & Co., LIMITED, of Albert Works, Bolton, in the
County of Lancaster, Hosiery Machinists, and WILLIAM ROTHWELL, of
Hollywood, Heaton, near Bolton, aforesaid, Machinist, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
In the construction of knitted pants or drawers for men's wear it has hitherto
been customary to knit the garments from the top of the legs up to the waist either
straight (which does not produce a proper fitting garment) or fashioned, that is
widened, in the knitting, which latter method increases the cost of production
considerably.
This invention is designed to provide a fully fashioned or shaped garment which
will be of better shape and less expensive to produce than has hitherto been usually
the case.
It consists essentially in making or forming the garment with a fashioning piece
or spring gusset of oblong wedge shape inserted in the back and extending down
to the fork to give the desired width round the hips without increasing the waist
measurement.
In carrying out the invention each leg with one side of the upper part of the
garment is knitted separately, the legs being either knitted seamless or flat and
seamed together down one side. A fashioning piece of the desired shape is knitted
separately to be afterwards attached to the back part of the garment. This
fashioning piece may be of any desired shape a suitable shape being somewhat of
the configuration of a mason's trowel. In knitting it may be commenced at a point
at one end gradually increased in width, and then knitted parallel for a short
distance, at this point all the stitches may be set up to give the total width and a
length of several inches knitted when it is again gradually narrowed to a point at
the other end.
The legs and other parts of the garment are knitted in the usual way on any flat
knitting machine such as Rothwell's, Lamb's or Cotton's machines.
These parts are then stitched together and the fashioning piece stitched into
position in the back between the two, one point extending nearly up to the waist
and the other joining into the fork of the legs the small narrow end being turned
up towards the front, thus forming a gusset.
The invention is applicable both to plain and ribbed garments.

page_text: Improvements in Knitted Pants, Drawers, and similar Garments.
We, W. ROTHWELL & Co. LIMITED, of Albert Works, Bolton, in the
County of Lancaster, Hosiery Machinists, and WILLIAM ROTHWELL, of
Hollywood, Heaton, near Bolton, aforesaid, Machinist, 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 :-
In the construction of knitted pants or drawers for men's wear it has hitherto
been customary to knit the garments from the top of the legs. up to the waist either
straight (which does not produce a proper fitting garment) or fashioned, that is
widened, in the knitting, which latter method increases the cost of production
considerably.
This invention is designed to provide a fully fashioned or shaped garment which
will be of better shape and less expensive to produce than has hitherto been usually
the case.
It consists essentially in making or forming the garment with a fashioning piece
or spring gusset of oblong wedge shape inserted in the back and extending down
to the fork to give the desired width round the hips without increasing the waist
measurement.
It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1. Back elevation of the drawers..
Fig. 2. Section of same on line x-y Fig. 1.
Fig. 3. Extended plan of the spring gusset.
'The garment is formed by knitting each leg A with one side B of the upper part
or waist separately, the legs being either knitted seamless, or flat, and then seained
together down one side.
A fashioning piece or spring gusset C of any suitable shape is also separately.
knitted, to be afterwards inserted in the back part of the garment, between the two
leg pieces A B. The fashioning piece or spring gusset C is preferably of the
shape shown in Fig. 3, resembling somewhat the configuration of a mason's
trowel.
The knitting may be commenced at the point or end g and the gusset is gradually.
increased in width along each side to the line 1-1, Fig. 3, and then parallel from
the line 1-1 to the line 2-2, along the line 2-2 all the stitches may be set up to
give the total width and a length of several inches knitted to the line 3-3 when it
is again gradually narrowed to a point g' at the other end..
The legs A and other parts B of the garment are knitted in the usual way on
any flat knitting machine such as Rothwell's, Lamb's, or Cotton's machines.
The parts A B are then stitched together and the fashioning piece C stitched
into position in the back between the two, the point g' extending nearly up to the
waist and the other point g joining into the fork of the legs the small narrow end
being turned up towards the front, thus forming a gusset.
The invention is applicable both to plain and ribbed garments.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
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Knitted pants, drawers and similar garments formed with a fashioning piece or
spring gusset (such as C) of oblong wedge shape inserted in the back and extending

page_text: down to the fork to give the desired width round the hips, without increasing the
waist measurement substantially as described.
Dated this 11th day of December 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.