US1117591A - Knitted tubular pocket for hosiery. - Google Patents

Description

R. J. MORNINGSTAR.

KNITTED TUBULAR POCKET POP. HOSIERY.

APPLIUATION FILED SEPT. 25, m3.

1,1 17,591., Patented NQv.17,1914.

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Rome J.- MORNING-STAR. DI" PHILADELPHIA) PENNSYLVANIA.

KNITTEI) TUBULAR POCKET FOR HGSIERY.

'irl 117.591.

Application tiled September 25. 1913.

Be it known that l. liceos tl. lllivnNiNo- STAR, a citizen ot the United States, rez-inlineY at, Philadelphia. inv the county ol" lthiladelf phia and State ol' Pennsylvania, have inrented certain new and uiwlul improve niente in Knitted l`nl;nlar Pockets l'or lxlosfiery, o't which the following is a speci-- tica tion.

'llhe invention has particular rclrenee to the process oit' nnuullaeturingpockcted stockings. and crniteniplates the fabrication ol' the pocket nieinlier ol the saine matorral as; the stocking' and ol such de szign that it may easily and properly he attached to the stocking.

lielorenre will he had to thc urctnnpruiyint; drawing t'orlninlg` a part o'tA this spec-.ith ration wherein like Iuunerals of 'reference designate cori-eslrondine parts tliroughout. the several views. in which latter:

lFigure l, is a persiieelive View o't' a stocliin e; equiptwd with the pocket. Fig. 2 is a ver ticiil sectional View through the upper portion thcreotl showing' the l'iap 0l.' the pocket open in l'ull lines: and closed in dott'cd lines, Flo'. 3 is a View similar teilig. f2 taken on a lii'icfaty right angles thereto. liig. l .is a detail View of the pocket; nu-niher in :in incomplete yand unattaehed ante. Fie'. 3 is a detail View Vin perspective oi" the pocket unattacl'led and as it comes from the knittingy machine and helore heine flattened out, and Fig.' (i le a detail View ot' the lahricatiou ol a' portion of the pocket.

Referring Ato the drawings, character l designates: a ladvs stocking. or analogous articleeither ol'ilhe seainlees or tull fashioned type. having the usual welt 9 stitched aS at il, providing the usual douhle thickness at the opper end. nl the stocking. A pocket l; occured a i its lower edge lo the stocking; hiv the saine line ot' 'tchen` 23 as #een in l'ig'. Il. and the side enges ol' Ythe pocket are ot' ched to the welt portieri of the. stocking hv stitches 5 which extend troni the top edge. of the Stocking to the hottmu edge of the welt (fo-incident with the row ot' Stitchesl S. Thus it will he .eeen that the pocket openin;I For the reception of valuahles is helwecu the poeket uiernher fl and the welt ol the stocking. The pocket n'n-uiher lis olE .special formation, a5 will he later deserilnfd. and its upper portion entendsy ahon'ellie elec-kine; welt and its provided with a .Snap or other separable 'fastener n'ieinllcr (3 for 'tareteningl Sp eciication o t' Letters Patent,

. jatented Nov. t7, 1914i. Serial No. 791.881.

engagement. with a complement fastening meunier T secured to the welt.4 Obviously. the pocket. lneniher l: may he attached to either the inside or outside of the stocking, though prel'erallly the loriner t'cr the sake ol' hotter appearanrein the iniehed article.

rl`he pocket. inenlher in constructed as lfollows: AS it comes 'frein the knitting machine. ity appears as in Figi'. fl. This niemher is of rlouhle. thickness the portion 7 henneT tuhular and provided with diametriially oppoeite vertical rowfsl o1 peculiar or irregular mesh. which rows 8 divide. the iueinher into two sections` 5) and il() which respectively forni the two walls or thicknesses oft the pocket ineinher when applied tothe stocking. ln the process of knitting;y the. section ll is; rarried heyoncl the se'otion 10 and a tapered portion ll looped or otherwise attached thereto as at l2, the portion 11 heilig fahricatetl at right angles to the portion l), except, the media n portion 14, which latter is really a continuatlon of the portion E) as the row t! of loopings does not extend entirely across the article` but only a limited extent lroni the specially knit rows 8 on each side ol the said pocket ineinher. lil/'hen taken from tl".,l{nittinr machine7 the front odge ot' the portion l'l and the, upper edge portion 16 of the section 10 are stitched totether coincident with the dotted lines 15 and ,lli hy-a row ot' stitches 17. .The niemher so formed is then pressed flat on the rows 8 and then stitched to the stocking.

lin Fig. G, the specially/.f ileoigned rows of knitting' S are leen to ne similar in general to the. .rows t4. which latter nialie up the hody portion oit-the said inemher fl, except that hm'izontaly orconnecting strands of the vertical rows 8 are ot' greater length than those ot' the rows 8', whereby there is a dis` tinrt line oli' separation hetween the wections i) and V10 ot the pocket member 'l. lt is upon these distinct lines or rows,` S that the pocket rneniher llattened and upon theee saine,

.lines that the pocket member is stitched hv the rows of stitches o in attaching it. to the. stocking. ln the finished article, it will he olnerved that the rows l2 of loopingr change lrniu the llie. '-'l position to that of Fig. 5 and into alineinent witlrthe Aaid rows S, and il; iS upon theee rows l2 that the upper portio-i ol' the pocket rneinhcr' is lattenetl.

lly naeanz; of this einistruetion. a double walled poeliet. nieniher is formed having a selvagge edge throughout. except at the bot.-

ripa! l nimeer distin uisliing lineon eacli side applying it to the stocking, but an indicating point or line on each sid ocliet ineniber, is

said4 indicating rows lienible upon which ed in being flattened. im that tbe rows. 12' ot' looping, not only pre-- inisliedgedgelbut as sent` a upon which to o upon Wliichthe be flattened. Further, 8 sernv'e as portions more the fabric may be folcllt will also be noted tal row 17 of stitches will be seen to be substantially in tie' p `i the welt and 'on pocket member Ll lane otn tlie upper ed e of the outside tace ot the Where it serves as a stitiened element to cause tbe flap extension to bend regularly ii'nniecliately above in being closed over tlie pocket opening.

be' seen tliata practical pocket is provided, and

tln i rou gbly one that.

will withstand Ithe ellects of washing witbout losing its onn n reeling' the natura which it is applied, land one not any modification shape or in any Way ail shape ot tbe stocking to requiring;

during the' course of mannfacture in the stocking to which it is applied, tliougli, it desired, tbe bottoni edge of the pocket ineinber may be stitched at tlic 13G same time tliat the welt is stitched, or separately thereafter. l

lliliat is claimed l. The process eted stockings, co

is v of inanut'acturing; .pocknsisting in 'fabricating a tubular blank with cliainetrically opposite lineal portions in ore flexible than tbe remainder oi" tbe blank, flattening;` tbe blank upon blank said lineal portions and securing the to a stocking along the lineal portions 40 and the lower edge ol the flattened blank.

.2. rllie process eted stockings, co

of manufacturing pocknsistingin 'fabricating a y a distinct line' fold the fabric. The horizontubular blank with a hemisplierical closed end portion, flattening said blank, securing the blank to a stocking to forni a pocket, leaving the flattened liemispherical end por tion extending above the upper edge of tbe stocking to form the pocket closure.

3. The process o manufacturing pocketed stockings, consisting in fabricating a tubular blank with a hemisplierical closed 'end and diametrically opposite lineal por tions more flexible than and visibly distinguishablei'froin the remainder of the blank. flattening;` the blank upon said lineal portions, securing the blank to a stocking along the bottom of tlie blank and along said lineal portions leaving tlie flattened lienii spherical end extending above the stocking, and providing the said extending end witli a stilening element.

1l. The process ot manutacturinn)- a pook eted stocking, consisting in fabricating a tubular blank with dianietrically op osite lineal portions distinguishable from t .e remainder ot tbe blank` 'forming one portion. of tbe blank between the lineal portions with a lieinisplierical extension, securing tbe. liernisplierical extension to the adjacent end of the other portieri between tbe lineal por tions.,` flattening the blank upon said lineal portions, and securing` tbe blank to a stools ing` along; the bottom of the blank and alone' the linea-l portions with tlle heinispli'ericzil extension extending above the stocking and

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