US288592A - Cut stocking - Google Patents

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No. 288,592; Patented Nov. 13, 1883.

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I I OWEN OSBORNE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,592, dated November 13, 1883.

Application filed June 6, 1883.

To a, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN OSBORNE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in the Manufacture of Out Stockings, of which the following is a specification.

One object of my invention is to prevent wastein the manufacture of cut stockings, and a further object is to improve the appearance of stockings made from tubes of knitted fabric. These objects I attain in the manner which I will now proceed to describe, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of part of a stocking made according to my invention; Fig. 2, a view showing the ordinary method of cutting a knitted tube in order to produce such a stocking, and showing the waste caused thereby; Fig. 3,

.a diagram showing why this method of cutting is adopted; Fig. 4, a diagram illustrating my improved method of cutting the stockings, and Fig. 5 a view showing another plan of carrying out this feature of my invention.

Inm'aking out stockings'with a barred toe, such as shown in Fig. 1, great waste is caused, owing to the fact that whenthe tube is made with continuous transverse stripes, as usual, it is impossible to alternate the tongues for form-v ing the'feet, as is done in making plain stockings. Thus, on reference to Fig. 3, it will be observed that when the tube is cut on the lines. as and 1 to form the tongues a and a on the stockings A and A, respectively, the bands I) are equidistant from the center of the tongue a, and hence are adapted to form abarred toe when said tongue is folded on the central line, (1; but the bands b on the tongue at are not in the center of the tongue, and hence cannot form a barred toe on the foot made by folding the latter. I For this reason the plan shown in Fig. 2 has been generally adopted in making stockings of this class, the tongues a a being alternated, as shown, and the shaded portions f being wasted. To overcome this objection,

and produce a stocking with barred toe by the (Model.)

usual method of cutting, without waste, I form in the knotted tube, at the proper intervals, stripes running but halfway around the tube. Thus, as shown in Fig. 4, a half-stripe, b, is arranged at an equal distance on each side of the continuous stripe b, one stripe, I), being on one half of the tube and the other on the opposite half. When this tube is cut, and each tongue a a folded on the central line, d, each half-stripe b will coincide with half of the stripe b, and the desired barred toe will be produced. The same result may be attained by arranging the half-stripes in the manner shown in Fig. 5; but the plan shown in Fig. 4 is simpler, and is preferred.

The half-stripes impart a more attractive appearance to the leg of the stocking than stripes extending completelyaround the tube, and hence are of value in this respect, independently of the saving effected in cutting the with opposite half-stripes, cutting the tube to form'projecting tongues, and folding said tongues, whereby the half-stripes are caused to coincide and form the barred toe, as set forth.

2. A knitted tube having transverse stripes extending only part way around the same, said tube being adapted to be cut and folded so that the half-stripes will coincide with each other, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OWEN OSBORNE.

Witnesses:

HARRY L. ASHEN'FELTER, HARRY SMITH.

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