Improvements in or relating to Knitted Hosiery Fabrics.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 7th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 7th May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Knitted Hosiery Fabrics.
I, GEORGE PADMORE, Junior, of Rutland Street, Leicester in the County of
Leicester, Hosiery Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :-
The object of this invention is to increase the durability of the goods by
strengthening the wearing parts; this is done by what is termed splicing or
introducing extra threads so as to thicken or strengthen the material at the parts
needed. These parts are particularly the heels, toes and feet, of socks and
stockings, and the seats and sleeves of shirts, pants and the like, and hitherto this
has been effected by introducing threads of the same material as those of which the
garment was made."
My invention appertains to the splicing with threads or fibres of a stronger and
more suitable nature than those of the material hitherto used, and for this purpose
I may employ any suitable material but preferably some form of hair, particularly
camel's hair which having a long and strong staple and other desirable properties
not possessed by the old kind of splicings is exceedingly suitable for the purpose I
have in view.
1
1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Knitted Hosiery Fabrics.
I, GEORGE PADMORE, Junior, of Rutland Street, Leicester, in the County of
Leicester, Hosiery Manufacturer, 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 object of this invention is to increase the durability of the goods by
strengthening the wearing parts, this is done by what is termed splicing or
introducing extra threads so as to thicken or strenghthen the material at the parts
needed. These parts are particularly the heels, toes and feet of socks and stockings,
and the seats and sleeves of shirts, pants and the like, and hitherto this has been
effected by introducing extra threads of the same material as those of which the
garment was made.
My invention appertains to the splicing with threads or fibres of a stronger and
more suitable nature than those of which the fabric is composed, and for this
purpose I may employ any suitable material but preferably some form of hair,
particularly camel's hair which having a long and strong staple and other desirable
properties not possessed by the old kind of splicings, is exceedingly suitable for the
purpose I have in view.
The hairs are spun into a thread or threads and are introduced into the wearing
parts of the fabric either
(a) in the same tube or guide with and in addition to the yarn of which the
non-wearing parts are made, or
(b) in separate tubes commonly called splicing carriers, or

page_text: (c) they may be mixed and spun, with any desired material such as wool, silk,
cotton or other material employed in spinning, or
(d) they may be twisted into a manifold thread with any desired material.
The use of any kind of hair for the purpose of strengthening the wearing parts
of knitted hosiery fabrics composed of ordinary materials such as wool, silk or
cotton, besides adding to the strength and good appearance of the fabric renders it
unshrinkable where added, this being a great advantage over all kinds of splicing
threads hitherto used, which in most instances have had a deleterious effect the
splicing being of a more tender nature than the yarn of which the non-wearing
parts were made.
It is sometimes advantageous to make the whole of the wearing parts of hair on
account of its softness and unshrinkability, in these cases at the point at which the
wearing parts commence, I take out of use the ordinary or groundwork_threads
and bring into use the threads of hair either by piecing on to the ground work thread
or by means of thread tubes of ordinary construction provided for the threads of
hair and proceed to work the parts desired solely of hair, the non-essential parts
being composed of usual material and the essential parts composed of hair.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
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1. The employment of hair for the purpose of strengthening the wearing parts of
hosiery or knitted fabrics made of other material than hair.
2. The employment of hair in conjunction with wool, silk, cotton or other
material in the manufacture of hosiery or knitted fabrics.
3. A knitted fabric or garment the non-wearing part of which is composed of
ordinary material such as is generally used in the manufacture of knitted hosiery
fabrics and the wearing parts of
(a) hair, or
(b) ordinary thread and a splicing of hair, or
(c) a yarn composed of a mixture of hair and wool, silk or cotton.
4. The use of thread or threads of camel's or other hair in conjunction with
another thread or threads of wool, or suitable material in knitted hosiery fabrics.
Dated this Fifth day of March 1892.
GEORGE PADMORE, JUNIOR.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.