Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left 15th Oct 1897 Accented 11th Dec.
1807
I, JOHN MILLAR, of 122 Great Saffron Hill, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in knitted textile fabrics or cloths of the
kind or class having longitudinal or warp threads like an ordinary woven fabric, and
the object of the invention is to produce a fabric of this kind which shall approximate
in its qualities more closely to an ordinary woven fabric than such knitted fabrics
generally do.
An important feature of the said invention is that by suitably arranging certain of
the threads or yarns as hereinafter described the same or practically the same pattern
can be obtained on each side of the fabric, so that either side of the latter can be
used as the face side if desired.
A fabric or cloth made according to this invention is distinguished from ordinary
knitted fabrics by the fact that in addition to the ordinary longitudinal or warp
threads and the tranverse knit in or "weft" threads, it contains other threads
corresponding to the ordinary weft threads of a woven fabric, these latter threads
which I term filling threads extending across the fabric without being knitted or
looped in any way.
Such a fabric is free from the objection that usually applies to knitted fabrics on
account of their great elasticity or tendency to stretch.
In some cases the knit weft thread and the filling weft thread may be arranged so
that they alternate with each other, the filling threads being arranged on one side,
say the front, of the warp threads, and the looped or knitted weft threads being
arranged on the other side with the loops extending through the fabric over the
filling thread and around the loop of the next knitted weft thread.
The repetition of the pattern above referred to is obtained by omitting, at
intervals, one or more of the filling threads, so that instead of their alternating
regularly with the knitted weft threads there are two or more knitted weft threads
between every two filling threads. In this latter case the filling threads are
arranged on the opposite side of the fabric to the knitted weft threads, as in the
arrangement previously referred to, and are held in place by the loops of one of the
adjacent knitted weft threads.
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page_text: I, JOHN MILLAR, of 122 Great Saffron Hill, in the County of London, Gentleman,
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 improvements in knitted textile fabrics or "cloths" of the
kind or class having longitudinal or warp threads like an ordinary woven fabric,
together with plain or straight weft or "filling" threads and knit-in looped weft
threads.
An important feature of the said invention is that it allows the same or practically
the same pattern to be obtained on both sides of the fabric, so that either side of the
latter can be used as the face side if desired.
This result is obtained by omitting at intervals one or more of the plain weft-
threads, so that instead of their alternating regularly with the knit-in-weft threads
there are two or more of the latter threads between every two plain weft-threads.
The invention will be readily understood by reference to the accompanying
drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view showing an ordinary knitted fabric of the kind
referred to, and
Figure 2 is a diagrammatic view showing a fabric made in accordance with this
invention.
a are the warp threads. 6 the plain or straight weft threads, and c the knit-in
weft threads.
As hereto manufactured, the plain and the knit-in weft threads have been arranged
alternately with regard to each other as in Figure 1.
According to my invention however I arrange the knit-in weft threads c so that
two or more of them come between every two plain weft threads 6 as in Figure 2
whereby the pattern is caused to repeat itself on both sides of fabric and either side
of the latter will serve as the face side.
It will be seen that in both figures the plain threads are shown arranged on the
side of the fabric opposite to the knit-in threads and are held in place by the loops of
the adjacent knit-in or looped weft-threads.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
A knitted fabric or cloth of the kind referred to having two or more knit-in or
looped weft threads between every two plain weft threads, substantially as described
with reference to Figure 2 of the accompanying drawings.
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HASELTINE LAKE & Co:
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C. Agents for the Applicant.