Improvements in or connected with Ribbed Stockings.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 12th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 27th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Ribbed Stockings.
I, WILLIAM BUCKLER, Buyer at Messrs. Devas Routledge and Co., of
20 Cannon Street, City of London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
According to the existing method of making ribbed stockings, the ribs are not
only down the legs but also over the feet, the bottoms or soles being made
separately and sewn together by the selvedge, or elge thread.
The object and purpose of my invention is to make the ribbed leg in the ordinary
manner and finish off at or near the ankle, or instep just above the fashioning for
the heel. The leg thus produced is transferred from the ordinary frame to a
circular frame, and a plain knitted seamless foot is made thereto, the various
needles being thrown in and out of action for the necessary shaping until completion
at the toes.
The ribs of the legs of my improved stockings are woven or knitted in closer
contact, and are of greater width than is usual, so that in passing the usual
dressing or finishing process due to the closeness of the texture, the ribs partake of
a glossy silk like appearance, the intermediates having the usual dull character.
Dated this lot daw of Tune 1904
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said William Buckler.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Ribbed Stockings.
1, WILLIAM BUCKLER, Buyer at Messrs. Devas Routledge & Co., of
20 Cannon Street, City of London, 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 :-
According to the existing method of making ribbed stockings, the ribs are not
only down the legs but also over the feet, the bottoms or soles being made
separately and the two sewn together by the selvedge or edge thread.
The object and purpose of my invention is to make the ribbed leg in the ordinary
manner and finish off at or near the ankle or instep just above the fashioning for
the heel. The leg thus produced is transferred from the ordinary frame to a
circular frame and a plain knitted seamless foot is made thereto the association
being by the attachment or take up of the selvedge or edge threads of the leg at
or near the ankle part. The various needles are thrown in and out of action for
the necessary shaping until completion at the toes.
The ribs of the legs of my improved stockings are woven or knitted in closer
texture or mesh, and are of greater width than is usual, so that in the usual
dressing or finishing process due to the closeness of the texture, the ribs partake of
a glossy silk like appearance, the intermediates having the usual dull character.
Price 8d l

page_text: Having now particularly. described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. As new articles of manufacture, stockings with ribbed legs and plain seamless
woven feet produced by the means and in the manner described.
2. The herein before described method of producing stockings by transferring
the ribbed leg from an ordinary ribbing frame to a circular seamless frame in
which the foot is made of a plain or unribbed character and seamless, the two being
associated by the attachment, or take up, of the selvedge or edge threads of the
leg at or near the ankle part, as described for the purposes set forth.
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100
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said William Buckler.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said William Buckler.