Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Knitted Gloves.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 15th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 29th Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Knitted Gloves.
I, WILLIAM BROWN of 4 Lower Free Lane Leicester in the County of
Leicester Hosiery and Glove Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements in or relating to the manufacture
of knitted gloves and consists in the first place of adapting to the making of fingers
of gloves thread layers or guides either alone or in conjunction with the ordinary
top carrier and working either plain or tucked work.
This arrangement has hitherto only been employed in making hands, and the
ordinary way of making the fingers has been from the top carrier, or when extra
stripes have been desired by extra carriers which are laid the whole width of the
fingers and made plain or tucked in the ordinary well known way.
Now to make
But to
the pattern of the fingers to correspond with that of the hand I lay the threads in
sections of one or more needles according to the pattern required by aid of the
thread layers or guides. Supposing a finger required 24 needles in the ordinary
way, the thread would traverse the whole 24 needles and be continuous.
accomplish mine I can employ 24 separate threads or any less number to form the
desired pattern. By so doing I am enabled to make the fingers of gloves to
correspond exactly with the hand and the pattern be continuous to the tips of the
fingers.
This cannot be accomplished by the means hitherto employed for checked
gloves made by aid of warp threads or thread layers. The before mentioned
thread layers or guides are of the ordinary kind used in knitting the hand of gloves.
In the second place I finger ribbed or imitation ribbed hands of gloves with an
imitation ribbed finger either plain or striped by using a tuck presser or pressers of
the ordinary kind according to the desired pattern. To finger a one and one ribbed
hand, I employ a one and one tuck presser, for a two and one ribbed hand I employ
a two and two tuck presser and so on according to the real rib or imitation ribbed
hand required to be fingered.
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The result being that the fingers will fit better than if made in "real rib" and at
the same time be similar in appearance to the ribbed hand, and would not stretch
so much in wear. Neither the continuity of pattern or imitation ribbed fingers
upon ribbed or imitation ribbed hands have hitherto been made in the manufacture
of fancy checked, striped or ribbed fabric gloves.
My above mentioned improvements can be made on any ordinary straight bar
knitting frame used in the manufacture of hands, and fingers of knitted gloves.
Dated this 12th day of November 1891.
WILLIAM BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
0 Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Knitted Gloves.
I, WILLIAM BROWN of Lower Free Lane Leicester in the County of Leicester
Hosiery and Glove 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 :-
This invention has reference to improvements in or relating to the manufacture of
knitted gloves and consists in the first place of adapting to the making of fingers of
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page_text: gloves thread layers or guides either alone or in conjunction with the ordinary top
carrier and working either plain or tucked work. This arrangement has hitherto
only been employed in making hands, and the ordinary way of making the fingers
has been from the top carrier, or when extra stripes have been desired by extra
carriers which are laid the whole width of the fingers and made plain or tucked in
the ordinary well known way.
That my invention may be more clearly understood I have annexed a sheet of
drawings in which
Figure 1. is a view of a knitted glove made in accordance with my invention.
Figure 2. a diagramatic view of a piece of fabric shewing how the fingers and
hand of a knitted glove appear as a contra distinction (by the aid of a tuck presser)
to Figure 1.
Figure 3. shows in diagram how vertical stripes, and Figure 4. "also in
diagram" of how a combination of stripes and squares are produced and carried out
in the fingers of knitted gloves, continuous to the hand portion thereof in the
manner hereinafter described.
Referring to the fingering of ribbed hands no illustrations are given but the
description hereinafter described will be well understood by those conversant with
the art of knitting.
In carrying this invention into effect, I make the pattern of the fingers in knitted
gloves to correspond with the pattern of the hand portion by the ordinary well
known means to lay the threads in sections of one or more needles according to the
pattern required by aid of thread layers or guides arranged the same as in the
machine for making the hand portion. Supposing that a finger required 24 needles
in the ordinary way, the thread would traverse the whole 24 needles and be
continuous.
But in my case I can employ 24 separate threads or any less number to form the
pattern desired of which the fingers of knitted gloves will correspond exactly with
the hand by the pattern being continuous to the tips of the fingers, an example of
which is given in Figure 1 of the drawings the process of making which is as
follows: After the hand portion has been knitted upon the "hand frame," it is run
on see dotted lines D & D to the fingering frame, the said fingering frame being
provided with the same or similar contrivances to those employed in the "hand
frame, and worked precisely in the same manner so as to produce the various
patterns. In this case squares of solid black A, solid white B, and mottled A' are
produced by working the thread layers for one course, and then the top carriers in
the next course using a black thread and a white one, when the white thread comes
in contact with a warp thread that is white, a white solid square B is the result,
but if the same is in contact with a black warp thread the result would be as A'
Figure 1. Or if alternated for four courses to produce the white solid square to be
followed by bringing the black top carrier in conjunction with a black warp thread
a black solid square would be produced, or by similar means a narrow black and
white stripe or stripes of whatever colour it is desired according to the yarn used.
And if I use in connection with the above a tuck presser say
$6 one and one the
result would be as represented in Figure 2, solid black squares A, white B and
alternate black and white mixture C.
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In fingering gloves similar results can be obtained by an
" Albion or plating
machine which is commonly known and simply consists of thread guides, threaded
from a roller underneath in the usual way, and when the loop has been formed and
the top carrier drawn across an extra thread is thrown over one or more needles;
if two carriers are used, one working black yarn and the other white and the
before mentioned plating devices are employed in addition to the said carriers
the plating would show upon the face of the fabric in the "fingers" as well as the
"hand" very similar to a "one and one" tuck Figure 2.
The commonest form in which patterns are produced in hands of knitted gloves,
and which I also make continuous in the fingers is shown by the diagramatic view
Figure 3. in which the thread guides carry a black and white thread alternately

page_text: and if these are worked continuously the vertical black stripe A² and white B¹ is
produced, one needle overlapping as at a². If these are worked in connection with
a top carrier threaded say with black yarn something like the diagram Figure 4
would be the result, in the hand and fingers alike consisting of the black
squares A, white B, black stripe B¹ intervening.
If with two top carriers the black would alternate with the white as C Figure 2,
but if the thread layer is worked one course, and the top carrier for the next
course the example as given in Figure 1. before described would be produced. In
the foregoing examples the guides are in addition to, not independent of the top
carrier.
To finger ribbed hands of knitted gloves, with imitation or "mock rib" fingers
either plain or striped I use a tuck presser or pressers of the ordinary kind
according to the pattern of the rib.
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To finger a one and one" ribbed hand I employ a one and one tuck presser
and press every alternate needle, and in the next course I press the one not pressed
in the previous course, and miss the one pressed in the previous course. For a
two and one " ribbed hand I employ a "two and two tuck presser and press
"two and miss two," and in the next course miss those pressed and press the "two"
missed and so on accordingly.
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I find that "imitation ribbed " fingers fit to the hand better than if made "real
rib" and have a similar appearance, and do not stretch so much in wear.
to a
The application of the several herein mentioned well known devices appertaining
"hand frame," applied to a fingering frame to obtain the same pattern in the
fingers as well as the hands will be well understood from the foregoing samples as
to the production of various patterns in fancy checked, striped knitted gloves for
making a continuity of pattern and is not therefore illustrated.
Such mechanical devices being well known for knitting stockings, socks, or the
hand portion of gloves, but for application to the "fingers," or imitation ribbed
fingers upon ribbed hands of gloves have not hitherto been known. The said
devices can be arranged on any ordinary straight bar knitting frame adapted to
knit the "fingers" of knitted gloves so that they correspond with the pattern of the
hands.
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. An improved glove made by applying the same devices for "fingering" that
have hitherto only been used for hands, by aid of thread layers, in conjunction with
tuck pressers, or by top carriers with the thread layers, used as in the ordinary way
of "plating" by laying the thread over one or more needles.
2. An improved method of knitting the fingers of gloves by guides threaded for
laying an extra thread in conjunction with the ordinary top carrier, or carriers such
as are used in the making of "hands" thereof.
3. Fingering ribbed hands of knitted gloves with imitation ribbed fingers by the
application of tuck pressers for either plain or striped work.
4. In "fingering the "hands" of knitted gloves, making a continuous pattern
throughout the "hand and fingers" by the application of thread layers or the like,
substantially as described.
Dated this 11th day of August. 1892
WILLIAM BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
The "Central" Office for Patents, &c.,
19, Bowling Green Street, Leicester.