US1746846A - Process for the manufacture of fashioned stockings - Google Patents

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Feb. 11, 1930. M. WIELAND v 1,746,846

PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF FASHIONED STOCKINGS Filed Nov. 15-, 1927 Fig/l. Fi .2;

Patented Feb. 11, 1930- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MAX WIELAND, OF AUERBACH, NEAR'OHEMNITZ, GERMANY; MAX HUGO HEB-KLOTZ, EXECU'I'OR OF SAID MAX WIELAND, DECEASED, ASSIGN OR TO A. ROBERT WIELAND,

OF AUERBACH, SAXONY, GERM ANY, A FIRM COMIPOSEDOF AUGUST ROBERT WIE- LAND, META ROSA. PETERS, LOTTE OEHME, AND LEONORE WIELAND v PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF FASHIONED STOCKINGS W Appncafipn m nn lean serial N0. 23;v,4Q,,.and.in Germany November 26, 1926;

The present invention has for its object the manufacture of a stocking knitted in the" are formed only by widening with a corresponding enlargement of the fabric, and, after the full length of the heel is obtained, a suitable number of meshes is se arated on both sides, the number of the wi ened heelmeshes in the lower heel-part being gradually reduced. A narrowing in the lower portion of the heel will therewith become superfluous, whereby an essentially simplified manufacture will result inasmuch as the direction of movement of the covering needles constantly remains the same and tensions in the fabric during the manufacture of the heel-portions are avoided.

A diagrammatic representation of results obtained in following this process appears in the drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents in outline a heel portion knit 1n accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 represents the heel portion shown in Fig. 1 after the stocking has been separated and its edges connected together in the usual manner.

"pose of narrowing the fabric to the width of fabric necessary for the foot. The result of said procedure is the shape of heel represented in Fig. 1. After the foot has been finished, the stocking is separated and its edges are connected with another in a known manner by sewing and joining the meshes, as represented in Fig. 2.

For the purpose of obtaining a good shape to the heel, only a part of the heel meshes is, during the manufacture, continued outwards after passing a certain pointfor instance that indicated by the line w-a, Fig. 3,in such a manner that less and less meshes are transferred outwards after passing the conveying-line. Thus the fabric is not Widened beyond the line aa,' Fig. 3, and for the purpose of the formation of a regular fabric-edge one or two edge-meshes are allowed to remain hanging on their frame needles, so that the corners broken off, as represented in Fig. 3 will result.

Another possibility of construction consists in that the work is generally done in quite the same manner as in the example of procedure shown in Fig. 3, but that the heelportions are not more outwardly widened in their entire width, viz: up to the outermost edge of the fabric, whereas a greater number of edge-meshes are left on their frame-needles' In this manner so-called small covering-flowers b, b, Fig. 4, will result near the inner remaining mesh-rows or bars, said flowers being a characteristic feature of the known French heel and improving the appearance of the heel.

In using the new process it is quite immaterial whether the heel-portions are outwardly widened by one or more needles and whether the widening is repeated in-each row of meshes or only after several rows. Furthermore, it is immaterial whether the heel-portions are reinforced by the insertion of special additional yarns or whether said reinforcement is effected by the so-called split reinforcement, whether the base-thread runs across the entire width of the fabric or whether the fabric-piece is formed by several threads which may join or bind each other in any suitable manner.

-IVhat I claim is:

A process for the manufacture of a stocking knitted in the shape of a leg, the heelportions of which are produced by lateral widening during thepworking ofthe foot; portion situated between the heel-portions, which consists in that the heel-planes are only formed by outwardly conveying the meshes to adjacent meshes with a correspondin enlargement of the fabric, by an outward widening, and that after the finishing of the full heel-length a suitable number of meshes are separated from both sides, the number of the widened heel-meshes being gradually decreased in the lower portion of the heel, one or more edge meshes being left on their frame needles for forming a regular fabric edge within the lower part of the heel.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name this 3rd day of November, 1927.

MAX WIELAND.

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