Improvements in the Manufacture of Knitted Goods.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 18th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 30th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in 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:-
This invention relates to knitted garments such as sweaters, jerseys, and the
like, used principally for cycling, footballing, boating, cricketing, tennis, and other
athletic pursuits and embodies improvements having for their object to improve
the shape of the front, to impart a better appearance to the garment and to obtain
a more perfect fitting of the collar, approximating in comfort that of tailor-made
coats.
Our improved garment is made preferably upon a straight bar knitting machine
and inay commence with the rib bottom to which is connected the front body
portion having our improved shaped front, and also the opening therein for the
head to pass through, the back body portion being knitted in continuation of the
front fabric and the rib bottom attached and the garment completed by linking or
seaming the sides together and inserting the sleeves in the usual manner.
To form the shaped front according to our invention we may divide the needles
into three sections, the fabric on each of the two end sections of needles being
narrowed on its inner edge only and the fabric on the central section of needles
being narrowed on each of its edges thus forming a central fabric with convergent
sides and approximately triangular in shape and the fabric on either side thereof
with a divergent inner edge the whole constituting an outline approximating that of
the letter W.
It is by means of this peculiar formation or shape of front to which the collar
is attached as hereinafter described that the improved appearance and comfort in
the garment are obtained.
The collar fabric which is of sufficient width to enable it to be turned over upon
itself to form a turndown collar has one edge connected to the divergent edges
of the shaped front and also to the edge of the back body fabric opposite to such
shaped front.
Each end of the collar fabric for half its width or thereabouts is connected to
the convergent sides of the central or approximately shaped triangular piece of
fabric herein before described.
The central fabric mustead of being knitted as a continuation of the front body
portion of the sweater may be kuitted or shaped from a separate piece of fabric
and inserted into the garment.
The collar fabric may also if desired have its ends widened for about one half of
its width to further improve the appearance.
The font although herein before described as shaped during the process of
knitting the garment, may, in the cheaper classes of goods be cut to the required
shape and the body fabric and sleeves made upon circular knitting machines if
desired.
Dated this 18th day of May 1895.
BOULI & WADE,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in 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 relates to knitted garments such as sweaters, jerseys, and the
like, used principally for cycling, footballing, boating, cricketing, tennis, and other
athletic pursuits and embodies improvements having for their object to improve
the shape of the front, to impart a better appearance to the garment, to obtain
a more perfect fitting of the collar, approximating in comfort that of tailor made
coats.
Our improved garment is made preferably upon a straight bar knitting machine
and may commence with the rib bottom to which is connected the front body
portion having our improved shaped front, and also the opening therein for the
head to pass through, the back body portion being knitted in continuation of the
front fabric and the rib bottom attached and the garment completed by linking or
seaming the sides together and inserting the sleeves in the usual manner.
To form the shaped front according to our invention we may divide the needles
into three sections, the fabric on each of the two end sections of needles being
narrowed on its inner edge only and the fabric on the central section of needles
being narrowed on each of its edges thus forming a central fabric with convergent
sides and approximately triangular in shape and the fabric on either side thereof
with a divergent inner edge the whole constituting an outline approximating that of
the letter W.
It is by means of this peculiar formation or shape of front to which the collar is
attached as hereinafter described that the improved appearance and comfort in
the garment are obtained.
The collar fabric which is of sufficient width to enable it to be turned over upon
itself to form a turn-down collar has one edge connected to the divergent edges
of the shaped front and also to the edge of the back body fabric opposite to such
shaped front.
Each end of the collar fabric for half its width or thereabouts is connected to
the convergent sides of the central or approximately shaped triangular piece of
fabric herein before described.
Refering to the drawing accompanying this Specification
Figure represents a diagrammatic view of a knitted sweater showing our
improvements applied thereto and with the collar turned up.
Figure 2 is a similar view with the collar turned down.
In carrying our invention into practice we knit and attach the sleeves A, and
the rib bottom B to the garment in any of the well known ways.
In order to form the fashioned front or opening as herembefore referred to we
first knit the front body portion C upon the full complement of needles for the
desired distance and then the needles are divided into three sections upon which
the fabric D E F is kuitted and fashioned as follows:--
The fabric E upon the central section of needles and which forms the base of
the opening referred to, is fashioned by narrowings E¹ on each of the edges thereof
as the knitting proceeds thus causing it to converge to a point and form an
approximately triangular shape as shown in the drawing.
The fabric upon the two outer sections of needles is fashioned by narrowings D¹ F
respectively upon the inner edge only thereof, thus producing an opening in the

page_text: upper front body portion of the garment having two diverging sides and a central
fabric having convergent sides as shown, the whole approximating in outline that
of the letter W.
To this opening the collar fabric G is connected as follows:
The lower edge G' of the collar fabric is connected to each of these divergent
sides D and F respectively and also to the edge H' of that upper part of the back
body portion of the fabric H, Fig. 1, opposite to such opening.
The ends G 2 of the collar fabric for about one-half of its width is attached to
the sides of the central fabric E leaving the other part of the collar free to fold
over upon itself as shown in Figure 2.
The central fabric E with its convergent sides instead of being knitted as a
continuation of the front body portion C of the sweater may be knitted
independently thereof or shaped from a separate piece of fabric and inserted into
the garment.
The front although hereinbefore described as shaped during the process of
knitting the garment, may, in the cheaper classes of goods, be cut to the shape
herein described and the body fabric and sleeves may also be made upon circular
knitting machines if desired.
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 sweater, jersey or the like garment the combination with the front body
portion of an opening therein having diverging sides and a central portion
with converging sides and a collar attached thereto substantially in the manner
described.
2. In a sweater, jersey or the like garment the combination with the front body
portion of an opening therein having narrowings on each of its sides and a base of
approximately triangular formation with narrowings on each of its sides and a
fabric collar attached to such opening substantially as described.
3. In sweaters, jerseys and the like garments the method of forming a shaped
front or opening therein which consists in knitting the front body portion of the
garment partly upon the full complement of needles, then dividing said needles
into three sections and narrowing upon the inner needles of the two outer sections
and upon the needles on each side of the central section of needles substantially
as described.
4. The improved sweater, jersey or like garment having a shaped opening
formed therein and a collar attached to the said opening substantially in the
manner described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated th 20th day of October 1905
Witness―
E. N. LEWIS,
Berridge Street Chambers, Leicester.
STEPHEN STRETTON.
SIMEON STRETTON.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicants.