US275142A - Mitten - Google Patents

Description

W. CARTER.

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Patented A.pr. 3, 1883.

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UNITED STATES- ATENT OFFICE.

YVILLIAM CARTER, OF HIGHLANDVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

MITTEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,142, dated April 3, 1883. Application filed October 11, 1882. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM CARTER, of Highlandville,county of Norfolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Mittens, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

My invention has for its object to simplify and cheapen the construction of mittens; and it consists in a mitten having the construction hereinafter described, and as pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 represents a knitted blank from which to produce myimproved mitten, and Fig. 2 represents the same folded and united to form a mitten.

In the mannfacture of a mitten in accordance with my invention I first knit on a ribstitch machine a fiat web, a, for the wrist or top of the mitten, and 1 then transfer the said flat rib-knitted web a to the needles of an ordi nary knitting-machine having one row of needles and adapted to knit a plain flat web, and to the needles of the latter machine I apply most of the loops of the web a or rib-top, or

those from the points 2 to 3, Fig. 1, the said loops being in number as may be required to knit a plain flat web, I), broad enough for the palm of the mitten. Having knitted the palmweb I) to the point designated by the dotted line x, I transfer some of the loops to adjacent needles, and by a system of narrowing produce two tabs or projections, 1) 12 each having two straight edges, 5 6, and a curved edge, 7, when the said palm-web is removed from the needles, with open loops showing along the edges 7. I then apply to other needles of the said knitting-machine the loops of the rib-top between the points 3 and 4, and on the said needles knit a narrow flat thumb-web, c, and when the latter is of proper length it is removed from the needles. Having produced a flat web-such as shown in Fig. l-it is doubled upon itself substantially in the line at, and the edges of the same are united, by stitches made by hand or otherwise, as follows, viz: edges 5 to 5, 6 to 6, 7 to 7, 15 to 16, to the line 6, and 17 to 18 from the line 2 4. to the upper corners, 20, of the rib-top. Next the edges 10 and 12 are united from the point 3 to d and 6. Then the thumb-web is folded upon itself, and its edges 8 9 are united from its free end to the point (I, afterwhich theremainingedge,l3,ofthethumbweb is united to the edge 14 of the palm-web I between the points 0 and 2, producing a mitten with a single line of seam extending the length of the rib-top, as shown in Fig. 2, and on both faces of the mitten from the rib-top to the crotch of the thumb, from the crotch of the thumb to the end of the thumb, and from the crotch of the thumb along the inner side of the palm, and about the end of the palm to the point g, Fig. 2, in the direction of the arrows h.

By the method of operation herein described the loops of the web, in the production of the mitten-blank, are transferred once less than in any other plan known to me for knitting seamed mittens.

I claim- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a mitten composed ofa knitted flat blank having a wrist portion, a, and independent palm and thumb portions I) c, knitted upon the wrist portion, and having each two selvage-edges, commencing with the wrist portion and extending to their ends, the palm and thumb portions being connected each with a part of itself at their ends most remote from the wrist to the junction of the thumb and palm portions, indicated by the lines 0 d, and then each to the other from the lines 0 d to the junction of the palm and thumb portions with the wrist portion, the opposite edges of the wrist portion being stitched together in the line of the seam joining the thumb and palm portions, the seam uniting the thumb and palm extending from the wrist portion to the lines 6 d, at the inner and outward sides of the mitten, all as shown, and substantially as described.

2. The knitted blank for mittens herein shown and described, composed of the straight wrist portion a, straight palm portion b, end portions, 1) b and thumb portion 2.

3. The herein-described knit mitten, the

same consisting of the wrist portion, the hand portion, continuous of the wrist portion, and

.the thumb portion, also continuous of the wrist portion, the several parts being seamed, as shown.

In testimony whereofI have signed myname to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM CARTER.

Vitnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, B. J. NoYEs,

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