US1072735A - Muffler. - Google Patents

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UNTED STATES PATENT oFFIcE.

J OSEF KELLNER, OF BROOKLYN, AND SIDNEY WORMS, OF NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS TO FRANKLIN KNITTING MILLS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION m NEW YORK..

MUFFLER.

Speciflcation of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 28, 1913. Serial No. 757,284.

To (l achom 'it may concern Be it known that we, JosEF KELLNER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and SIDNEY VVoRMs, a citizen of the Unted States, residing, respectively, at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, and New Rochelle, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mufliers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invent-ion relates to mufllers and more particularly to knitted mufllers, the Object thereof being to provide an improved knitted mufller having a neck portion of comparatively short length merging into a pair of flaring or gradually widening ends, both substantially alike.

A further Object of the invention is the provision of a knitted muflier knitted of lengthwise extending ribs or Wales so that when knitted of difl'erent colored threads it will have an accordion efl'ect, the flaring ends of which 'terminate in shaped ends, each preferably of a single fold or thickness.

In the drawngs accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a lan view of this improved knitted mufller, ig. 2 is a rear view of one end thereof.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding `parts in the figures of the drawin s'.

The nitted muflier 1 is given its iridescent or accordion effect lengthwise thereof by knitting the same of difi'erent colored threads so as to form lengthwise extending wales ,or ribs 3 of one color alternating with the intermediate rows 4.

In knitting this' improved mufller it is started with a certain width in the machine, such as a flat knitting machine, it being started for instance at' the end 5 and by gradually throwing out of operation certain needle loops or stitches, it is so knitted that the end wll i adually taper or narrow toward the nec? portion the edges of which are knitted in substantial parallelism or with slight curvature thereof, By gradually throwing into operation certain needle stitches or loops the opposite portion7 is knitted with a sinilar flaring end. The muffler when knitted flat in the manner described is then formed up so that the rear edges thereof will be brought together asat 8 and sewed o' connected along such edges. Each end of the mufiler is shaped, shown herein as of triangular shape, as at 9, and

overedged, this shaping being usually done 4 prior to the sewin of the rear edges. together. This overe ging may be done with different colored threads corresponding with the body of the mufller, if desired. The rear connected edges of the mufiler are barred by a crosswise extending bar 10, (see Fig. 2) thus providing a loose flowing end at each end portion of the mufiler. Thus it will be observed that this improved double flaring end knitted muflier is knitted in the desired shape as contradistinguished from being cut from a knitted blank, and that when of an iridescent or accordion appearance it is preferably knitted wit-h lengthwise extending Wales or ribs, and horizontal courses, and preferably with the face of the mufiler of contrasting colors, while the rear of the fabric. may usually be of a solid or single color so that in some instances the wearer should he be so disposed, could use the muffler with the wrong side out, the ends preferably being open and suitably 'shaped as shown in the present instance as of triangular shape.

This improved muflier it will be observed has a relatively short neck portion, in other words, the neck portion is stubby or blunt and this neck portion terminates in two similarly formed ends both of which are of the same or substantially the same size so that the ends are interchangeable, that is to say, either end may be folded on top of the other in use. By'reason of the short neck portion it will be Obvious that -the flaring ends will be in such position that they will 4 neck of the wearer to usually cover the collar and such portion of the back of the neck above the collar as it is desired to rotect. In short, the neck portion of the mufller is what may be considered of stocky construction, that' is short and wide, yet relatively narrow as compared with the ends. In.

ractice the muflier as ordinarily formed will have its neck portion about five inches Wide, while the greatest Width of its shaped ends may be approximately ten inches Wide.

V We claim as our invention:

As an article of manufacture, a mufiier or chest protector knitted flat with a short stocky neck portion sufliciently Wide to protect the neck of the wearer above the Collar, but relatively narrow as compared With the ends of such mufiier, said neck portion merg- 'ing into a pair of substantially similarly formed flaring ends whereby they are inte changeable, each of compar'atively great width at its widest portion and of sufiicient Width between its point of juncture with the neck portion and its end to, When overlapping its companion end, protect the chest of the wearer, each of said ends terminating i n a shaped end, said muffler being knitted With substantially the same form of stitches from end to end and having lengthwise extending ribs or Wales which may alternately be of different colors on one or both sides thereof to provide an accordion efi'ect, the juxtaposed rear edges of such muflier being united on the rear side thereof.

-Signed at New York, this 15th day of March, 1913.

J OSEF KELLNER. SIDNEY. WORMS.`

Witnesses:

F. E. BOYCE, W. L. BOTELAR.

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