Improvements in Knitted Garments.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 17th June, 1891-Accepted 1st Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Knitted Garments.
I, SAMUEL HODGKINSON of 12 Hazel Grove, Bolton in the County of Lancaster,
Hosiery Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows:-
My improvements relate to that class of garments made in circular knitting
machines, such as, vests, shirts, bodices, and the like, and applies to both ribbed and
plain fabrics. Hitherto garments of the description named above made on circular
knitting machines have been made in one continuous length or tube, or to length of
garment desired; the top or neck and bottom of same being turned inwards and
stitched or trimmed. The garments so manufactured in this way are considered
inferior and value by the trade to those having welts at the bottom and seams down
each side as the superior goods hitherto produced have. My improvements consist
in making garments of the class above mentioned on circular knitting machines with
a mock seam down each side and welts at bottom end of same." In producing
garments in this manner I sometimes make the seam or joint across each shoulder
by linking or other means, or by connecting loop and loop, and thus making
practically an invisible joint or seam.
Dated the 18th September 1890.
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Knitted Garments.
I, SAMUEL HODGKINSON of 12 Hazel Grove, Bolton in the County of Lancaster,
Hosiery Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
My improvements relate to that class of garments made on circular knitting
machines, such as, vests, shirts, bodices, and the like, and applies to both ribbed and
plain fabrics. Hitherto garments of the description named above made on circular
knitting machines have been made in one continuous length or tube, or to length of
garment desired; the top or neck and bottom of same being turned inwards and
stitched or trimmed. The garments so manufactured in this way. are considered
inferior and value by the trade to those having welts at the bottom and seams down
each side as the superior goods hitherto produced have. My improvements consist
in making garments of the class above mentioned on circular knitting machines with
a mock seam down each side and welts at bottom end of same. In producing
garments in this manner I sometimes make the seam or joint across each shoulder
by linking or other means, or by connecting loop and loop, and thus making
practically an invisible joint or seam.
To produce the mock seam a part of the jack of needle is cut away so as with one
cam to make tuck stitch and clear with the next, or in any other manner found
practicable or convenient according to the class of circular knitting machine
employed.
The welt is formed, after the fabric has been produced by the ordinary methods,
by, at required intervals for the purposes of the garments above referred to, the
needles being operated so as to receive a tuck stitch; the machine needles being
thrown out of action and the required number of courses to form the welt being run

page_text: upon the frame needles, after which the machine is put into ordinary knitting to
form the next garment. This method of forming welts can be varied as desired or
necessary.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The manufacture of vests, shirts, bodices, and the like, on circular knitting
machines, having mock seam and welt as described.
Dated the 19th 1901
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.