Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Knitted Goods..
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 15th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 28th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Knitted Goods..
We, STEPHEN STRETTON and SIMEON STRETTON, trading as S. D. Stretton
and Sons of 61 Southgate Street, Leicester, Hosiery Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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This invention has reference to the manufacture of knitted goods and is designed
specially as an improvement upon the present method of manufacturing jerseys,
sweaters, shirts, and similar knitted garments.
The invention has mainly for its object to improve the appearance of such goods
when being worn and further to make the said goods in such a manner as to afford
protection to the neck and lower part of the head of the wearer in cold or wet
weather.
This is an advantage which will be appreciated by wearers of these goods, and
particularly by football players, some of whom during the progress of the game
and also during "half-time" pass intervals of inactivity when the uncovered
portion of the neck and base of the head are exposed to the weather often with
bad results.
The beforementioned advantages are obtained by our invention which consists
in providing jerseys, sweaters, shirts and the like with an upward continuation or
extension from the neck and front portion in such a manner as to form what may
be termed a collar which may be worn either as a turned down collar, (i.e. folded
over and upon itself) or upwards in an extended position when required for the
protective purposes hereinbefore named.
To carry our invention into practice we may make the body and sleeve
portions of jerseys, sweaters, shirts and similar goods in any of the well known
ways.
The neck and chest portions are also fashioned to impart to the garment
the necessary shape thereat and to form an opening for the head to pass through.
To form the collar we attach to the edge of the opening mentioned either by
linking, seaming or otherwise, a preferably straight piece of knitted fabric, either
ribbed or plain but preferably ribbed, sufficiently wide or deep to permit of being
turned down as before stated.
At and below the point where the two ends of the collar meet on the front of
the article we insert a piece of knitted fabric of the same kind as the collar which
also imparts a finish and improved appearance to the garment.
Dated this 29th day of November 1893.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Knitted Goods.
We STEPHEN STRETTON and SIMEON STRETTON trading as S. D. Stretton
and Sons of 61 Southgate Street, Leicester, Hosiery Manufacturers, 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:-
This invention has reference to the manufacture of knitted goods and is designed

page_text: specially as an improvement upon the present method of manufacturing jerseys,.
sweaters, shirts and similar knitted garments.
The invention has mainly for its object to improve the appearance of such
goods when being worn, and further, to make the said goods in such a manner as
to afford protection to the neck and lower part of the head of the wearer in cold or
wet weather.
This is an advantage which will be appreciated by wearers of these goods and
particularly by football players, some of whom during the progress of the game
and also during "half-time" pass intervals of inactivity when the uncovered portion
of the neck and the base of the head are exposed to the weather often with bad
results.
This invention consists in providing jerseys, sweaters and the like with an
upward continuation or extension from the neck and front portion in such a manner
as to form what may be termed a collar which may be worn either as a turned
down collar (i.e. folded over and upon itself) or upwards in an extended position
when required for the protective purposes hereinbefore named.
To carry our invention into practice we may make the body and sleeve portions
of the beforementioned goods in the well known way, the neck and chest portions
thereof being suitably fashioned to impart to the garment the necessary shape
thereat and to form an opening for the head to pass through.
To form the collar we attach to the edge of the opening beforementioned,
either by linking, seaming or otherwise, a preferably straight piece of knitted
fabric, either ribbed or plain, but preferably ribbed, sufficiently wide or deep to
permit of being turned down as before stated.
At and below the point where the two ends of the collar meet on the front of
the article, we insert a piece of knitted fabric of the same kind as the collar which
also imparts a finish and an improved appearance to the garment.
In order that the invention may be the better understood reference is made to
the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of so much of a knitted jersey or sweater as
is necessary to illustrate the present invention, the said jersey or sweater having
the collar in its turned down position.
Figure 2 is a similar view but showing the collar in its turned up position, and
Figure 3 is a view of the collar fabric detached from the garment.
The sleeves A and the back portion of the body of the garment are produced
in the usual well known manner.
The front body portion of the jersey or sweater is knitted upon preferably a
straight bar knitting machine as follows:
The lower front body portion B is knitted in the usual way, i.e. on the full
complement of needles up to the point marked B', when about fourteen, more or
less, of the central needles are placed out of action and the loops allowed to remain
thereon. Knitting is then continued on the two sections of side needles, (which
represent the whole of the needles previously in action minus the central inactive
needles) so as to produce two side pieces of fabric C.
A separate thread carrier is used for each section of side needles. Narrowings C₁
may be formed at intervals on the inner needles of each of the two sections of
Bide needles so that the space or opening caused by the beforementioned central
needles remaining inactive at B', is gradually enlarged, whereby not only can the
head of the wearer pass readily through the same, but a shaped or fashioned front
is the result.
Although the appearance of the garment is improved by narrowing or fashioning
the front as described yet we do not wish to be so confined but may omit the
fashionings when desired.
The back and front body portions and the sleeves may then be connected
together in any of the well known ways.
One edge of a straight piece of fabric D such as is shown in Figure 3 and
preferably ribbed, is linked or otherwise connected round and to the edge of the

page_text: opening before named and to the edge of that upper portion of the back which is.
opposite to the said opening.
A piece of fabric E, ribbed or otherwise, may also be let into the front at the
base of the opening so as to improve the appearance thereof.
When the straight piece of fabric D is connected to the garment as described it
may be used either as a turned down collar as indicated in Fig. 1. or turned up as.
in Fig. 2. in the latter case affording protection not only to the neck but also to
the base of the head.
Instead of making the garment so that the head of the wearer has to be
passed through the opening described it may be made so as to button down the
front.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In a jersey, sweater, shirt or similar knitted garment the combination with
the front body portion of an opening therein and a preferably straight piece of
fabric connected to the edge of such opening and to the edge of that upper part of
the back body portion opposite to the said opening substantially in the manner and
for the purpose described.
2. In a jersey, sweater, shirt or similar knitted garment the combination with
the front body portion the upper part of which is formed in two sections fashioned
on their inner edges of a knitted fabric collar substantially in the manner described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. The improvement in the manufacture of jerseys, sweaters, shirts and similar
knitted garments which consists in knitting part of the front body portion upon the
full complement of needles and part upon two side sections of needles narrowing at
intervals upon the two sections of needles and combining with the fabric so produced
a collar fabric substantially in the manner described.
4. The improved manufacture of jerseys, sweaters, shirts and similar knitted
garments substantially in the manner described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
FOTOAL
LONG
LOTON TRON InLA AV AT 1064
STEPHEN STRETTON.
SIMEON STRETTON.
35 Witness:
E. NORTH LEWIS,
Berridge Street Chambers, Leicester.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicants..