US693409A - Rib-knitted pile fabric. - Google Patents

Description

No, 693,4o9.`

- Patented Feb. |8, |902. y 'G1- A. LEIGHToN. A

ms Akramen PILE FABRIC.

(Applicationxed Apr. 4,1901?) (No Model.)

.i imp-im UNrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE A. LElGl-ITON, OF MANCHESTER, NEW-HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR T() LEIGHTON MACHINE COMPANY, OF. MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

RIB-KNITTEDPILE FABRIC.

.SPECIFICATEON forming part of Letters-Patent No. 693,409, dated February 18, 1902.'

d Application filed April 4, 1901. Serial No. 54,260. (No model.) Y'

To albwtom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. LEIGHTON, acitizen of the United States, residing at Manchester, in the county of Hillsboro and State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improvement in Rib-Knitted Pile Fabric, of which the"following description, in connection with the acconipanying drawing, is a specification, like letters on the drawing repro resenting like parts.

This invention relates to a novel rib-knitted fabric composed of different threads one or more of which are manipulated or interknitted to form a ribbed fabric, while the other r5vthread or threads are interknitted to lie in wales at one surface only of the fabric between the longitudinal knitted wales of the ribbed fabric. The thread interknitted, as described, to lie upon one surface of the fabzlo ric may be used to ornament the fabric, or`

the thread may be of such a nature that it may be teazeled or worked to produce a pile for the side of the fabric.

Prior to this invention a rib-knitted fabric has had incorporated with it at one side a pile-thread, said thread lying loosely behind the loops in one row of knitted wales facingr one side of the fabric and crossing the loops of intermediate knitted wales facing the other 3o side of the fabric, and the pile-thread of any desired length or degree of slackness crossing the intermediate wales is by usual means acted upon to produce a pile or fleece.

A rib knitted fabric in which the pilethread is simply laid across the ribs of adjacent wales cannot have the pile-thread incorporated with the rib-knitted fabric with sull'lcient firmness to retain its position in the fabric, and in use strain exerted on a loop of 4o the pile-thread between adjacent longitudinal wales of the rib-knitted fabric will draw the pile-thread from a number of the adjacent longitudinal wales, thus presenting a A long loop of the pile-thread at the face of the faln'ic,\vliich is decidedlydetrimental thereto. l have aimed to produce a rib-knitted pile fabric in which the pile-thread is knitted into itself course after cou rse between the knitted wales of the rib-knitted fabric, and con-se-L 5o quently any strain exerted upon any part of the pile-thread between any two adjacent Vtlie threads.

wales of the rib-knitted fabric will not result in drawing the pile-thread from an adjacent longitudinal wale of the rib-knitted fabric. By thus knittingthe pile-thread between the knitted walesef therib-knitted fabric amore uniform and evensurface is produced upon the completed fabric. f

Intel-knitting the pile-thread with itself course after course results in forming on one 6o face of the fabric a series of wales fornied'entirelyY from the pile-thread, the pile-thread wales alternating with the longitudinal wales of the rib-knitted fabric. i

The drawing constituting part of this speci 65 fication shows a piece of rib-knitted fabric made in accordance with this invention, the fabric-threads and intertneshing being exaggerated to clearly illustrate interloopingl of Referring to the drawing, the body of the knitted fabric is formed of'inner and outer body ribs or wales A B, knitted in usual manner on usual dial and cylinder needles, thus Y constituting a regular'rib-knitted fabric in 75 which none of the regular rows of stitchesare omitted. As this fabric is knitted course after course l lay into or incorporate with it the pile warp-thread C, it crossing the longitudiy nal wales A and being knitted into itself 8o course after course to make between the longitudinal knitted wales A A and at one side of the longitudinal knitted wales B of the ribknitted fabric a series of wales lC', composed entirely of the pile-thread. the pile-thread with itself course after course it will be seen that any loop of pile-thread if disengaged and drawn outwardly will not rend farther than to the next adjacent row of knitted wales in the pile-thread, and so, 9o also, by reason of the interloopin g of the pilethread into a series of`independent knitted wales it is possible to draw the pilethread into and incorporate it with the fabric closer than were the pile-threads simply laid round 95 and round course after course in and among the longitudinal wales of the rib-knitted'fabric, as has heretofore been done.

In the production of the fabric herein described the rib-knitting will be done -upon roo two sets of needles, one called Athe dial-needles and the other' the cylimler-ncodlcs, and

By interknitting these dial and cylinder needles may be of any nsnalor suitable construction.

VThe second or pile thread which appears at one face ot the fabric and is interknitted course after course to present Walesot knit ting between wales of rib-knittingisproduced by a third set of needles, which takes said second thread and knits it stitch after stitch.

By the terms rib-knitted fabric and ribbed fabric I intend toinclude any form ot' ribbed fabric knitted on two sets of needles-such, for instance, as a fabric commonly designated by the terms cardigan and half-cardigan,7 and also a ribbed fabric knitted in what is designated commonly as tnclostitch.

W'hen thepile-thread is knitted together in Wales and incorporated in a fabric knitted in the so-called tuck-stitch, the knitted Wales of the pile-thread will be applied to that face of the fabric opposite which the tuckstitch appears.

I Having described my invention, what I claim, and des'ire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

l. A knitted fabric composed of different threads, one of which is manipulated or interknilted to form a regularly-ribbed foundation fabric such as described, thcother thread being inter-knitted to present a series of knitted loops at one side only of the Vribbed fabn rie, said knitted loops lying between adjacent ric such as described, the other thread being intel-knitted to present longitudinal Wales at one surface of the fabricand between the wales of the ribbed fabric, said thread being mapped.

3. A knitted fabric composed of a regularlyribbed knitted foundation such as described, and a second or pile thread interknitted with itself at each course to present knitted loops at one side of, and between adjacent Wales of the ribbed fabric, the pile-thread being prevented from being Withdrawn from the fabric byinterknitting the saine with itself as dcscribed. l

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence ot' two snbscrbingar Witnesses.

GEORGE A. LEIGHTON.

lVitnesses:

THEoDoRa WIESENDANGER. D. BURGEss.

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