US1541008A - Hosiery - Google Patents

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June 9, 1925 1,541,008

L. TLUCKA HOSIERY Filed Aug. 18, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 a LA) a WITNESS June 9, 1925 1,541,008

- L. TLUCKA v HOSIERY Filed Aug, 18, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented June 9, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS 'ILUCKA, or PA'I'ERSON, NEW JERSEY.

HOSIERY.

Application filed August 18, 1924. Serial No. 732,754.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs TLUCKA, a citizen of Austria, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hosiery, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to knitted hosiery and its object is to provide a barrier to prevent a run in a stocking from reaching beyond some predetermined line, as near the point where such runs are usually started in hosiery by disruption of a thread due to wear of a garter clasp, such barrier being so formed as to leave the stocking free to expand in the zone occupied by the barrier, and in addition to provide in the structure of the barrier means affording elasticity or having capacity'to stretch and contract supplemental to such as exists in the barrier itself and which will serve as a constricting garter incorporated in the stocking, so that the latter can be sold for use either with or without a separate garter.

In the manufacture of knitted goods it is common to join edges of the same, as

at the heels and toes of hosiery, in machinesof the class represented for example in the Koehler Patent No. 1,026,808, the actual joining element being thread (usually two tlneads) knotted at close intervals and having its thread interlinked with loops of the joined portions of the fabric, the knots formed existing entirely independently of the thread or yarn of the fabric-and by knots I mean ties which would not permit disintegration upon mere disru tion of extraneous thread, as that of the oops of the joined portions of the fabric. In the improved stocking herein set forth I arrange such a joining element so as to extend in a circumferential line of the stocking, thus to form a barrier to prevent a run in the stocking. My invention further contemplates incorporating in this element, when embodied in a stocking in the way stated, an elastic constricting member, as of rubber, whereby the stocking will have not only an anti-run barrier but may be worn if desired without separate garters of any kind, to be then held up by said elastic member.

It is not material what particular stitch is employed in said element to form its-knots in carrying out the stated object of my in- Fig. 5 shows the knot-formation in thebarrier; and

Fig. 6 shows the manner of incorporating the elastic constricting member.

I herein describe the invention as applied to full-fashioned hose.

The hose isknitted from the top down in the usual way,-but near its top and in two transverse lines extending the full width of the goods the loops are formed enlarged, as indicated at a a in Fig. 3, The'loops are facilitate fitting them over points (as 12 in the. said Koehler patent) of a looping machine. Said loops are then fitted over the mentioned points and, the intervening knitformed enlarged in the courses a a so as to ted material 3) being cut away, in the operation of the looping machine the one course of loops becomes joined to the other by the knot-formation 0 produced, from suitably.

supplied threads, by the looping machine (Fig. 5). An essential feature of the inven-- tion as so far described is the presence in the hose of a. knot-formation, as c, which joins the portions of the fabric above and below the same and is longitudinally elastic, whereby it will give and take with the fabric when the latter expands and contracts. I have shown in Fig. 5 the said knot-formation (which is here a two-thread one in common use) diagrammatically and open, the knots or ties being not drawn up close as the element actually exists when produced by the looping machine so that their structure may be apparent. It will be understood that said element is a knot-for mation whose knots exist entirely independently of the thread or yarn of the fabric, the term knots in this description and in the appended claim referring to ties of the kind I have already hereinbeforc defined, the importance of the knots being that they prevent any ravelling out or disintegration A barrier is afiorded, a Will. be under- I stood, in the sense that when a run reaches the edge of the portion of the fabric afl'ected which adjoins the barrier it has exhausted its possibilities for proceeding further.

In Fig. 6 I have shown an elastic member,

- as a rubber strip 6, running through or incorporated with the knot-formation. In the example illustrated this strip is fed into the knots or ties of said element when they are formed by the looping machine in the same directionsee the arrow as the knot-formation is fed from the point of forming the same, and so it progresses with and so becomes bound in the knots.

The fabric is then removed from the looping machine and seamed along its edges 65 to give it the form of hose (Fig. 1) and otherwise finished in the regular way.

The barrier element is preferably formed endless, which will of course result when the fabric is seamed along the edges 03 to form the stocking and the ends of said element,

become bound together by the seaming process; this is not indispensable, through ifsaid element were not endless its ends would tend to p'ucker the material, whichusually would be undesirable.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claimas new and desire to se cure by Letters Patent is:

-A knitted tubular fabric comprising two knitted tubular portions arranged edge to edge and whose courses substantially parallel ,each other and an attenuated element arranged between said edges and extending in a circumferential line of the fabric and formed of thread tied in knots at given in- .tervals throughout its length, said element LOUIS. TLUCKA.

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