Improved Apparatus applicable to Straight Bar Knitting Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 24th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 6th Mar., 1900-Accepted, 21st Apr. 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improved Apparatus applicable to Straight Bar Knitting Machines.
I, HERBERT KIDDIER, of the Firm of John Kiddier and Son, of Globe Works,
Waterway Street, Nottingham, Hosiery Machinist, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows;-
Each end of the usual draw bar on a straight bar knitting machine is an
incline or cam plate operating a lever rocking on an axle secured in the standard,
the lever carries a clawker for operating a ratchet wheel provided with a cam
wheel both revolving on a spindle carried by bearings secured to the usual tie
bar.
The cam wheel actuates a truck carried by a lever having a link at the front
end operating a right angled lever connected by a link to a vertical rocking
lever which pulls a slide outwards independent of the worm box. This slide
when pulled outwards allows the needles to be pressed, when the slide is pushed
inwards it holds the needles from being pressed. A spring pulls the slide up
to a stop carried by the worm box when relieved by the lever operated by the
cam wheel.
A bearing secured to the tie bar carries an axle on which a lever rocks the
back end lifting a vertical slide having two stops operating when required.
By the above apparatus several courses are made across the width of each
breadth of fabric on the machine between the retained misspressed loops on
the heel or toe and the fabric afterwards made. Thus strengthening the join-
ing of the fabric.
Dated this Twenty-third day of June 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus applicable to Straight Bar Knitting Machines.
I, HERBERT KIDDIER, of the Firm of John Kiddier and Son, of Globe Works,
Waterway Street, Nottingham, Hosiery Machinist, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be parti-
cularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
-
Figure 1 shows a front view of my improved apparatus as applied to the
right end standard of a straight bar knitting machine.
[Price 8d

page_text: Figure 2 a right end view of the same, a like arrangement of parts being
applied to the left end standard.
Figure 3 shows in plan an incline on the right end of the usual draw bar of
a knitting machine, a like incline being on the left end of the draw bar.
The corresponding parts in each figure are numbered alike where necessary.
The improved apparatus as applied to the right end of a straight bar knitting
machine consists of the following parts;-
On the right end of the usual draw bar I is an incline 2, operating a lever 3, 3,
rocking on an axle 4, secured in the standard, the lever carries a clawker 5,
the fall of which is adjusted by a set screw 5* on a rod projecting from the
bearing of the usual catch bar rocking shaft 5"... The clawker operates a ratchet
wheel 6, carrying a cam wheel 7, both revolving on a spindle 8 carried by bear-
ings secured to the usual tie bar 9. The cam wheel actuates a truck shown
only at Figure 2 carried by a lever 10 having a link 11'at the front end operat-
ing a right angled lever 12 connected by a link at its upper end to a vertical
rocking lever 13 which pulls the usual lower slide 14 outwards independent of
the worm box. This slide when pulled outwards at the right, end of the machine
allows the needles to be pressed for the number of courses required when the
slide is pushed inwards towards the left of the machine, it holds the needles
from the usual presser bar, causing them to misspress. A spring 15 pulls the
slide up to a stop carried by the worm box when relieved by the lever operated
by the cam wheel 7. The usual upper slide 14 being operated by a like arrange-
ment of parts at the left end of the machine. A hearing 16 secured to the tie
bar 9 carries an axle on which a slotted lever 17 rocks, being raised by the right
end of the axle of the truck carried by the lever 10, engaging in a slot of the
lever 17, the back end of the lever 17 lifts a vertical slide 18 carrying two
stops 19, 20.
When the slide is lowered the upper stop 19 regulates the traverse
of the thread carrier rod 21 the length required, when the slide is raised the
lower stop allows the full traverse of the thread carrier rod to be made in the
usual way.
The rest of the movements of the machine operate in the usual
way.
:
By employing two sets of the above described apparatus in conjunction with
a straight bar knitting machine, several courses may be made across the width
of each breadth of fabric on the machine, between the retained misspressed loops
on the heel or toe of the fabric afterwards made when the feet of hose are being
made on the machine, or where required on other garments as they are knitted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The construction and employment of the improved apparatus at each end of
a straight bar knitting machine, substantially as described for the purpose speci-
fied and illustrated in the drawings annexed.
Datad this Wifth day of Vaval 1000