Method of Producing the same.
Year: 1897

page_text: Method of Producing the same.
I, GEORGE ARCHIBALD CARTWRIGHT of 7, Millstone Lane, Leicester, Merchant
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in stockings and socks and in the method
of producing the same and is designed with the object of effecting improvements
in such goods by which increased durability and protection to the wearer are
obtained.
The invention has for its object to increase the thickness of the feet of stockings "
or socks without the use of the well known splicing or auxiliary threads and
without having resort to multiple loop or tuck stitches both of which methods
have attendant disadvantages not incidental to a fabric of double thickness
produced after the manner of the present invention.
According to this invention stockings and socks have double thickness feet,
obtained by two separately knitted fabrics, the one independent of the other but
united at their edges so as to form a complete foot.
The method of knitting the improved stocking or sock forming the subject of
the present invention consists in first producing the stocking or sock in the usual
manner.
It may then be again transferred to the needles, at some point in the fabric
above the heel and a second foot piece comprising preferably a high heel, foot
bottom and toe, knitted thereto.
The duplicated or double foot, both parts of which may be attached during the
process of knitting to the leg fabric, may have their remaining unconnected selv-
edges attached to each other or to the other parts of the foot after leaving the
knitting machine.
The method of production may vary slightly according to the type of machine
upon which the stocking is knitted.
It is obvious that a sock or stocking knitted with a double or duplicate foot may
have one cut away or removed, when worn out in addition to which the double
thickness of fabric when in wear affords additional warmth to the wearers foot.
Dated this 8th day of February 1897.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Stockings and Socks and in the
Method of Producing the same.
I, GEORGE ARCHIBALD CARTWRIGHT of 7, Millstone Lane, Leicester, Merchant,
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:-
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This invention relates to improvements in stockings and socks and in the method
of producing the same and is designed with the object of effecting improvements
in such goods by which increased durability and protection to the wearer are
obtained.
This invention has for its object to increase the thickness of the feet of stockings
or socks without the use of the well known splicing or auxiliary threads and
without having resort to multiple loop or tuck stitches both of which methods
have attendant disadvantages not incidental to a fabric of double thickness
produced after the manner of the present invention.
According to this invention stockings and socks have double thickness feet,
obtained by two separately knitted fabrics, the one independent of the other but
united at their edges so as to form a complete foot.
One method of knitting the improved stocking or sock forming the subject of
the present invention consists in first producing the stocking or sock in the usual
manner.
It may then be again transferred to the needles, at some point in the fabric
above the heel and a second or supplementary foot piece comprising preferably
a high heel, foot bottom and toe, knitted thereto.
This supplementary or double foot, may be attached to the leg fabric during
the process of knitting and may have its remaining unconnected selvidges united
to the foot of the stocking or sock after leaving the knitting machine.
The method of producing may vary slightly according to the type of machine
upon which the stocking is knitted, and in some cases the double feet may be
produced in continuous succession one after the other and afterwards cut into
separate pieces and attached to a stocking or sock.
It is obvious that a stocking or sock knitted with a double or duplicate foot may
have one of the latter cut away or removed, when worn out, in addition to which
the double thickness of fabric when in wear affords additional warmth to the
wearer's foot.
In order that the invention may be fully understood reference is made to the
accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a sectional clevation of a sock of the
well known seamless type made in accordance with this invention.
Figure 2 is a plan view of a piece of fabric illustrating a method of producing
in continuous succession, supplementary feet of the seamless type and Figure 3
is a transverse section of the same on the line X X.
In carrying this invention into practice a stocking or sock of the well known
seamless type and represented by the letter A is first knitted in the usual manner.
B represents the auxiliary heel, foot bottom and toe (notwithstanding the other
letters used to indicate the separate parts thereof as hereinafter referred to) and
is produced as follows:-
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At any convenient point, as B¹, above the heel, the leg, fabric of a stocking or
sock for about one half its width has its loops transferred or run on to one half or
thereabouts of the circle of needles of any of the well known types of circular
machines for producing seamless hosiery.

page_text: The cams are then reciprocated in the well-understood manner about the said
needles for a number of successive courses until a piece of fabric of uniform
width is knitted terminating at or near the dotted line B².
The heel is next produced by knitting the first half C thereof upon a decreasing
number of needles, reduced by at least one, each course and finishing at C¹ B².
The second half C2 of the heel is then knitted by increasing the number of needles
in action at each course in the inverse order in which they were reduced or put out
of action until the full number of needles has again come into work.
The heel will then be finished and terminated at or near the dotted line C3 B².
The full number of needles which were in work when commencing at B' have
now been restored to action and a number of successive courses upon this full com-
plement of needles will then be knitted to form the foot sole or bottom D), following
which the toe will be knitted in two halves E E' in an exactly similar manner to
that described in reference to the two halves CC of the heel.
The completion of the toe will take place along the line E which also forms the
point at which it is linked to the instep F.
The supplementary heel, foot bottom and toe fabric thus produced may now
be taken off the needles of the machine and requires to be attached to the sock.or
stocking.
It will be remembered that at the upper part along the line 1' it is already
attached to the sock by being knitted thereto as hereinbefore described, so that
the loops of the one part are interlinked with the loops of the other part and thus
constitute an integral connection..
The edges 13 are therefore sewn or attached to the sock by hand or machine
in the positions indicated in Figure 1 of the drawings.
The method as hereinbefore described of knitting the supplementary foot fabrics,
necessitates each of the latter being made singly, it is however preferable and at
the same time the production is considerably. increased, to knit a number of such
supplementary fabrics continuously in succession one after the other as will be
understood from Figures 2 and 3 (wherein the same letters of reference are em-
ployed as in Figure 1) so that the method of producing such fabrics in this manner
will be more clearly understood.
Figure 2 shows two supplementary feet knitted one after the other in continuous
succession, without the same having been removed from the needles of the machine
until the fabric was finished as shown and Figure 3 represents a cross section
of same.
Referring to, Figure 2 the knitting is assumed as commencing at B¹ by recipro-
cating the cams around one half or thereabouts of the circle of needles.
The leg or upper part of the heel fabric B is first produced then the two
parts CC of the heel, next the foot bottom D, then the toe E E, all in the manner
already herein described in connection with Figure 1.
If now, instead of removing the fabric from the needles, knitting he continued,
a further leg piece B, heel C C³, foot bottom D and toe E E' may be produced, and
if the process is repeated, a number of auxiliary feet will be produced in succession
one after the other, which require to be subsequently cut across the dotted
line BE, which is identical with the two edges of the fabric referred to by the
same letters of reference in Figure 1.
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Having thus cut a continuous length of supplementary feet across the dotted
fines E2 B (which will then produce the two edges represented by those letters in
Figure 1) the separate and single supplementary feet thus made will then require
to be connected to the foot of a sock or stocking in a similar manner to that
already described in reference to Figure 1 with the addition that the edge B¹
will also need attaching thereto by hand or by machine in consequence of it not
being run on to the needles of a knitting machine as hereinbefore referred to.
It is obvious that the supplementary feet may not only be knitted in pairs as
illustrated in Figures 2 and 3 but by continuing the knitting operation in the
manner hereinbefore described any number of supplementary feet may be produced

page_text: in the length which only requires cutting or dividing along a line as E2 B¹ to
make the separate feet.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A seamless stocking or sock having a double thickness foot obtained by a
supplementary heel, foot bottom and toe piece one edge of which is connected to
the leg of the said stocking or sock by interlinking with the loops of the latter while
on the knitting machine and the other edges of which are united to the stocking
or sock after being removed from the machine and in the manner described.
2. A stocking or sock of the seamless type having a supplementary heel, foot
bottom and toe, knitted independently thereof and attached thereto substantially
in the manner described and illustrated in Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing.
3. A method of producing seamless stockings or socks provided with double
thickness feet as described, which consists in transferring part of the loops of the
leg fabric to the needles of a circular knitting machine and knitting thereto a
supplementary fabric comprising a heel, foot bottom and toe, the two sides and
the end of which are united to the stocking or sock in the manner described.
4. In the manufacture of seamless stockings or socks provided with double
thickness feet, a method of producing supplementary feet which consists in
knitting a succession of heel, foot bottom and toe fabrics in continuous unbroken
lengths and severing same at a point between, the toe of one piece and the heel
of another piece substantially in the manner described and illustrated in Figures 2
and 3 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of June 1897.
GEORGE ARCHIBALD CARTWRIGHT,
Witness:-
E. N. LEWIS,
Berridge Street Chambers,
Leicester.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant