Improvements in or relating to Knitted Hosiery Fabrics.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1893-Accepted, 21st Oct., 1893
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 to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement.
The object of this invention is to produce a knitted garment known in the trade
as a jersey, guernsey, franklin, or sweater (hereinafter described as jersey) of an
improved kind which may be put on by the wearer as an ordinary coat. Jerseys
have hitherto been made in two connected parts, back and front, having an opening
for the head with or without a rib collar and in order that the wearer might use
the garment it has necessitated his thrusting his head through the opening and his
arms into the sleeves in a very awkward and inconvenient manner, and equally as
awkward to get the garment off again.
My object is to remove this difficulty by an improved method of manufacturing
the jersey.
My invention applies particularly to the front of the jersey and to plain and
fancy knitted fabrics of which jerseys etc. have been usually made.
In the accompanying drawings
Figures 1 to 4 inclusive show different ways of manufacturing the parts of a
jersey constructed according to my invention, and
Figs. 5 and 6 are views of two finished jerseys that shown in Fig. 5 being
provided with a collar and that shown in Fig. 6 has no collar.
According to this invention I make the front of the garment in two parts A A¹
with an opening A² down the front which may be buttoned or fastened in any
convenient manner.
One mode of manufacture is as follows and I will describe it as applied to a
jersey of a coarse gauge. I make preferably the front first, of two pieces A A' of
fabric having selvedges A³ A each of these pieces being on say 80 needles wide;
having made the required length of fabric I produce the fashioned neck opening B
by narrowing on the selvedge A³ to say 25 needles for each shoulder C each of the
two parts A A' being made independent of the other. If I require to narrow for
the shoulder I narrow on outside selvedge A' as shown at A³.
To make the back D of the jersey I use say 140 needles, I put on the two
pieces A A¹ of fabric composing the front on to the outside needles, from the
selvedge needles inwards, leaving the needles in middle of the back D free I set up
independent loops on these needles to form back of neck opening B and proceed to
make the back D in the usual manner.
The front A A' of the jersey (ris. the two pieces of fabric composing the front)
is thus made on 160 needles while the back D is on 140 needles thus leaving
sufficient extra width at the front to wrap over as at E, Fig. 2 for buttons F and
button holes F the latter being preferably formed in a flap G covered by the edge
of front part A¹; or any other suitable way of closing the front of the garment
may be employed.
If I make the back D first, narrowings should be replaced by widenings giving
the same effect.
I wish it to be understood that I mention the number of needles only by way of
illustration and do not tic myself down to these numbers. The two fabrics A A+
forming the front may be narrowed or widened on either selvedges as desired.
A collar H Fig. 5 may be attached if desired to the fashioned neck opening B.
As shown in Fig. 3 I can produce the same effect by making the jersey body A A'D
in one piece narrowing the outside selvedges at B for the neck opening forming the

page_text: sleeve openings as at A° and afterwards joining the shoulders C together; or as
shown in Fig. 4 I may make the jersey body in one piece with the parts A A¹
knitted continuously with and joined at the shoulders C to the back D the
selvedge edges D' of which are afterwards joined to the outer selvedges A* of front
parts A A except at A which is left open to receive the sleeves I which may be
constructed and put in in the usual manner.
The knitted hosiery fabric of which the before described jerseys are composed
may be made on flat machines in plain or fancy stitch in ribbed or plain fabric.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. In knitted hosiery fabrics made on flat machines in plain or fancy stitch in
ribbed or plain fabric a jersey or the like having its front made in two parts such
as A A' to form an opening extending the whole length of the jersey which opening
may be closed by buttons or other suitable fasteners after the jersey has been put
on by the wearer substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
2. In knitted hosiery fabrics made on flat machines in plain or fancy stitch in
ribbed or plain fabric a jersey or the like having its front made in two parts such
as A A narrowed to form an opening such as B for the neck the front of the
jersey being open from the bottom to the fashioned neck opening substantially as
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. In knitted hosiery fabrics made on flat machines in plain or fancy stitch in
ribbed or plain fabric a jersey or the like having its front wider than the back for
the purpose of overlapping at the buttoning part substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
4. In knitted hosiery fabrics made on flat machines in plain or fancy stitch in
ribbed or plain fabric a jersey or the like having its front composed of two pieces
of fabric such as A A¹ for the purpose substantially as described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
5. In knitted hosiery fabrics made on flat machines in plain or fancy stitch in
ribbed or plain fabric a jersey or the like having its body made in one piece the
outside selvedges being fashioned to form the neck opening substantially as
described and illustrated in Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawings.
6. In knitted hosiery fabrics made on flat machines in plain or fancy stitch in
ribbed or plain fabric a jersey or the like with fashioned front or neck opening
having the front of the jersey open up to the neck substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1893.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.