IMPROVEMENTS IN KNITTING MACHINES OR STOCKING FRAMES
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edwin Ambrose Brydges at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th May 1881. A communication
from E. G. Wege, of Apolda, in the German Empire.
EDWIN AMBROSE BRYDGES, of the Firm of Brydges & Co., Engineers &
Patent Solicitors, 73, Koeniggraetzer Str., in the City of Berlin and German
Empire, and 6, St. Leonard's Terrace, Upton, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN KNITTING MACHINES OR STOCKING FRAMES." [A commu-
nication from E. G. Wege, of Apolda, in the German Empire.]
This Invention relates to improvements in hand and power knitting machines or
stocking frames, and consists of a novel arrangement for preventing breakage of
the hooks or needles, to facilitate the removal of the meshes, and to enable the
machines to be made considerably lighter than is possible with the machines at
present in use. Instead of pressing down the hooks of the needles by means
of the presser, as is at present the custom, I employ what I term covering needles.
The said covering needles are so formed that the points of the same are guided
in an angular channel, groove, or recess in the upper surface of the hooked needles.
These covering needles are made with a groove, recess, or cavity in the upper
surface of the same, so that when the bar or bars to which they are attached is or are
slid or pushed forward by means of a treadle or the customary arrangement on such
machines, the points of the hooked needles enter these cavities, grooves, or recesses
in the covering needles, and are so completely enclosed by the same that the meshes
can be easily removed without any depression of the hooks to the needles by the
presser, thus assuring an enormous saving in needles.
It is well known that enormous quantities of needles are broken by the action of
the presser in pressing down the points of the needles.
As before mentioned the ordinary hooked needle is provided with a V like recess
or groove in its upper surface. To the rear of the bend for forming the hook in
which the point of the covering needle is guided, whereas the upper surface of the
covering needle is hollowed out or recessed so as to receive the point of the hooked
needle, and thus permit the meshes to be removed with great facility.
When the material is moved to the rear, the meshes are drawn onto the covering
needles. When the same is moved forward the covering needles slide forward in

page_text: the V grooves in the upper surfaces of the hooked needles, so that the points of
the said hooked needles enter the recesses in the upper surfaces of the covering
needles, and thus the mesh for forming a second mesh is led from below to the
goods.
For producing goods in various designs or patterns the covering needles can be
attached to several bars, or the needle bar can be subdivided.
These needle bars or parts of the needle bar can be moved or operated by
corresponding treadles or their equivalents so as to produce the pattern desired.
By employing my Invention the production of the machine is increased by
thirty to fifty per cent., the work rendered easier, and all. breakage of needles
prevented.