Improvements in Knitting machines.
Year: 1895

page_text: Improvements in Knitting machines.
We WILLIAM SPIERS and THOMAS SCOTT GRIEVE of Queen Street Works,
Leicester, Hosiery Machinists, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention has reference to kuitting machines of the automatic or self-acting
type in which latch needles are employed and the various improvements forming
the subject of the present invention and hereinafter referred to will be described
in reference to circular reversible knitting machines in which a seamless tubular
fabric such as the leg of a stocking is produced during continuous rotary motion
of the machine and a flat fabric or a narrowed or widened fabric such as is
required to form the toes and heels of stockings and socks is produced during
reciprocating motion of the machine.
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The invention comprises various improvements including improved and simplified
mechanism for use during the knitting of the toes and heels, part of the herein-
after described mechanism being specially applicable to the knitting machine which
is described and referred to in the Specifications of Patents No. 10330 of 1887
and No. 3 of 1890.
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In the said knitting machine there is employed a cam, referred to in the
before mentioned specifications as a "tipping cam the function of which is to
determine (by altering its position) the number of needles which are brought into
action during the knitting of the heels and toes.
This tipping cam is furnished with a spindle passing through the cam shell or
cylinder and having on its end a bevel wheel which at each reciprocation of the
cam cylinder engages with curved racks thereby partly rotating the said tipping
cam so that more needles are placed in or out of action according to the direction
in which the curved racks are travelling.
The first part of the present invention relates to improved mechanism for
moving the curved racks to or from each other during the process of knitting
heels and toes.
These curved racks according to the well known construction of the machine
are reciprocated by toothed rings receiving motion from worms and according to
our invention we provide improved mechanism for rotating these' worms, which
consists in mounting on the end of each of the said worms a toothed wheel gearing
into another spur wheel mounted on an arbor or spindle and having at the side
thereof and on the same spindle two ratchet wheels with their teeth in opposite
directions and pawls for operating such ratchet wheels.
Means are employed for holding one of these pawls out of engagement with
its ratchet wheel so that only one pawl and ratchet are in operation at the same
time, and the direction in which the worm revolves and consequently the direction
in which its engaged toothed ring moves is determined by whichever ratchet pawl
is in operation.
The pawls may receive motion from a lever operated by a cam or equivalent on
preferably the crank shaft.
To reverse the motion of the worms, as in changing from narrowing to widening
in the formation of the heel and toe pouches, we employ a guard plate which' is
placed over the ratchet wheels and which has openings therein or is cut away at
certain parts in such a manner, that a partially rotary. movement of the said
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guard plate allows one ratchet pawl to come into engagement with its wheel and
at the same time holds the other pawl out of action.
The movement of the guard plate at the required time for the purpose named is
effected by an arrangement of links, or toggle levers receiving motion from one
or more levers actuated by a cam on the side of a ratchet wheel or by stops on
a pattern chain or wheel.
The second part of the invention relates to means for placing the curved racks
into the path to actuate the bevel wheel connected to the tipping cam just
immediately prior to commencing the knitting of the heels and toes.
For this purpose the curved racks are carried upon radial slides having cam
slots therein in which is located a pin attached to a circular band or lever which
is connected to and operated by a lever or equivalent actuated by the usual belt
shipper or clutch lever of the machine.
Alternative mechanism for moving the said curved racks in a direction to or
from the centre of the machine to place them in or out of the position to engage
and actuate the tipping cam bevel wheel may consist as follows:-
The pin on the slide supporting the curved racks travels within a groove in a
ring or segment movable relatively to or from the centre of the machine by
suitable levers or equivalent mechanism.
The advantages of this construction consists in being enabled to move the
curved racks out of their operative paths at any point of their movement, whereas
in knitting machines constructed in accordance with the before-mentioned patents,
the mechanism employed in the knitting of the heels and toes, once set in motion
must continue to the finish before the curved racks can be moved out of the path
in which they engage the wheel of the tipping cam beforementioned.
It is advantageous when a "press off" takes place during the knitting of the
heel and toe and under other circumstances to be able to move the curved racks
out of the path in which they actuate the tipping cam and our improved mechanism
enables this to be effected.
The third part of the invention embodies means for effecting a gradation in the
diametrical width of the fabric as it is being produced so as to make it conform
more closely to the shape of the human leg.
This stiffening of the fabric as it is technically termed is effected according to
our invention by mechanism actuating the usual stiffening lever of the machine.
This lever, as is well understood, is connected to the needle cylinder (or sinker
cylinder if such is employed) and lowers or raises either the one or the other of
the two latter aud thus produces larger or smaller loops and consequently increases
or decreases the width of the fabric being produced.
To effect a gradual alteration, i.e. to increase or decrease the width of the web
being knitted we connect to the stiffening lever, a further or intermediate lever
which may be acted upon by an eccentric or cam receiving motion from a ratchet
wheel driven by stops on a pattern chain or equivalent means.
As the eccentric revolves it acts upon the levers intermediate of the needle or
sinker cylinder so that one of the latter is gradually raised or lowered to effect a
gradual increase or decrease in the size of the loops being formed and thus in the
width of the fabric being knitted, the latter as is well understood being contracted
or widened to agree with the varying outline of the leg.
The fourth part of the invention consists of an improved arrangement of cams
and means for actuating the same to cause the proper selection of needles during
the narrowing and widening processes of the heel and toe.
According to this part of our invention we employ a slidable carriage having
two fixed cams attached thereto and which carriage may be moved up and down
to cause the needles to change from or into the knitting position at the required
time as is well known and understood, in connection with toe and heel knitting.
The slidable carriage may have a pin attached thereto passing through the cam
cylinder and on the end of the said pin may be an anti-friction roller adapted to
pass over a cam surface (in lieu of the curved racks) carried by the reciprocating
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page_text: toothed rings hereinbefore mentioned and to become elevated thereby and corre-
spondingly vary the position of the sliding carriage and fixed cams, while a further
cam surface near the end of the first mentioned cain surface comes into contact with
the said anti-friction roller and restores the carriage and fixed cams to their original
lowered position.
The raising or the lowering of the two fixed cams mentioned relatively to the
stitch and guard cams determines the number of needles which are placed in or out
of the knitting position.
Dated this 4th day of November 1895.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Knitting Machines.
We, WILLIAM SPIERS and THOMAS SCOTT GRIEVE of Queen Street Works,
Leicester, Hosiery Machinists, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has reference to knitting machines of the automatic or self-acting
type in which latch needles are employed and the various improvements forming
the subject of the present invention and hereinafter referred to will be described in
reference to circular reversible knitting machines in which a seamless tubular fabric
such as the leg of a stocking is produced during continuous rotary motion of the
machine, and a flat fabric or a narrowed or widened fabric, such as is required to
form the toes and heels of stockings and socks, is produced during a reciprocating
motion of the machine.
The invention comprises various improvements including improved and simplified
mechanism for use during the knitting of the toes and heels, part of the hereinafter
described mechanism being also specially applicable to the knitting machine which
is described and referred to in the Specifications of Patents No. 10330 of 1887
and No. 3 of 1890, but more particularly to the latter.
The invention will be fully understood from the following detailed description in
reference to the accompanying drawings wherein,
Figure 1 is a plan of a circular reversible knitting machine constructed in
accordance with this invention.
Figure 2 is a back elevation.
Figure 3 is a section on the line X X of Figure 2 with certain details omitted as
hereinafter described.
Figure 4 is a perspective view of the shroud or guard plate for the ratchet
wheels A 4 A 5.
Figure 5 shows in front elevation our improved stiffening mechanism and,
Figure 6 is a detail thereof.
Figure 7 is part plan of the machine with one of the rack rings removed to show
the segmental slides, and,
Figure 8 is detail of same.
Figures 9 and 10 are front and back elevations of the eam shell and our
improved cams.
Figures 11 and 12 are elevation and plan respectively of cam actuating
devices.
Only so much of the knitting machine is shown in the drawings and will be
hereinafter described as is necessary to illustrate the invention.
In the knitting machine described in the patents hereinbefore mentioned, there is
an oscillating cam, designated a tipping cam, the function of which is to determine.

page_text: the number of needles brought into action during the knitting of the heels and toes
as fully set forth in the specificatious of the said patents.
This tipping cam is furnished with a spindle passing through the can shell and
having on its end a bevel wheel which at each reciprocation of the cam shell or
cylinder engages with curved racks thereby partly rotating the said tipping cam so
that more or less needles are placed out of or into action according to which
direction the curved racks are travelling.
The first part of the present invention relates to improved mechanism for moving
the curved racks to or from each other during the process of knitting the heels
and toes.
Fig. 1 represent these curved racks, which according to their well known
construction as set forth in the Specification of Patent No. 3 of 1890 receive motion
from two toothed rings or discs R R the upper one being partly broken away in
Fig. 1 of the present drawings to show the one R¹ underneath.
These said rings rotate in opposite directions and are actuated by two
worms A A Figs. 1 and 2 and according to our invention we provide improved
mechanism as follows for actuating these worms.
The said worms are carried upon spindles A 2× A 3× Fig. 3 upon the end of each
of which is a small toothed wheel A Figs. 2 and 3 gearing into a larger spur
wheel A 2 mounted on an arbor or axle A 3 formed in a projection B* on the worms'
bearing B. On each of the two axles A 3 are two ratchet wheels A 4 A. 5 side by
side, whose teeth are disposed in opposite directions.
In Fig. 3 one of the spindles A 3 shows the spur wheel A 2 the two ratchet
wheels being behind it, while the other spindle has the spur wheel removed
and shows one only A 4 of the two ratchet wheels the other ratchet wheel being at
its rear.
Each ratchet wheel A 4 A 5 is driven by a pawl A6 A7 shown most clearly
in Fig. 3 carried on an axle A8 A9 in the rocking lever B3, and a spiral
spring A 10 connected one end to each of the two said pawls A6 A7 keeps
the latter up to their work.
On each end of the axles A 3 is secured a plate B¹ Figs. 2 and at the centre of
which is the fulcrum B 2 Fig. 2 of the rocking lever B 3.
It is obvious from the foregoing that the four pawls being carried on the rocking
lever (two on each end thereof) the latter when moved on its fulcrum in one
direction will cause one each of the two upper and two lower driving pawls to move
its ratchet wheel forward the extent of one tooth and as the said lever returns to its
original position, it would cause the other two pawls to actuate their ratchet wheels
and thus the spur wheels being on the same spindle would be moved alternately one
tooth forward and one tooth back at each to and fro stroke of the rocking lever,
and thus the worms A A* and the toothed rings in engagement therewith would
make no progress.
To provide against this occurring we employ means for holding one pawl in each
of the two sets, out of engagement with its ratchet wheel while the other two are in
work, so that only two pawls are in operation at the same time, and the direction in
which each worm revolves and consequently the direction in which its engaged
toothed ring moves, is determined by whichever two pawls are in operation.
Convenient means for this purpose consists of a guard plate, shown detached in
Fig. 13, comprising a dise C (which letter is also used to designate the guard plate
as a whole) loosely mounted on the spindle A3 and having an attached rim
or flange C¹ encasing the teeth of the ratchet wheels and parts of which rim are cut
away to expose certain teeth near the actuating end of the pawls.
These guard plates are each provided with two noses or inclined projections, C2
Figs. 3 and 13 which when moved under the pawls keep them raised out of
action.
The two noses on each guard plate are arranged in such positions relatively one
to the other that when one is holding its pawl raised out of action the other
is moved away so as to allow the remaining pawl to actuate its ratchet wheel

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These noses or projections are however not essential as the rim of the device
might be made to cover the teeth immediately under the end of the pawl when the
latter is required to be out of action.
For the purpose of partly rotating these guard plates to actuate them in the
manner described each has a lug C3 thereon to which is attached one end of
a link C4 the other end being pivotted to a rocking lever C 5 fulcrummed at C 6
Fig. 3 to an arm B 4 projecting from the plate B'.
Each up or down movement of this lever C 5 partially rotates each guard plate C
so that one pawl is raised ont of action and the other is dropped on to the teeth of
its ratchet wheel.
The rocking lever C 5 has pivotted thereto a vertical rod D Figs. 1 and 2
attached at its lower end to a horizontal lever D¹ fulcrummed at D 2 to the framing
and provided with a roller D 3 adapted to ride over a semi-circular cam El arrauged
on the side of a ratchet wheel E on a shaft E2 having bearings on the framing, the
said ratchet wheel being rotated by a pawl E3 also fulcrummed at E4 to the
framing, and receiving motion from a cam F' which at each revolution of the spur
wheel F on which it is carried, collides with a roller E5 on the said pawl and
pushes the latter forward so that it actuates the ratchet wheel E.
It is obvious that each time the ratchet wheel E makes a complete revolution the
horizontal lever D' is alternately raised by the cam E' and lowered when it passes
out of contact with it and the rod D, lever C 5, and links C4 moved so as to
partially rotate the guard plate as before described.
Reverting to the rocking lever B3 (by which the four pawls A6 A7 are
actuated) it is connected by a link B 5 to another vertical lever G bored to pass
over a supplementary shaft H and having a boss G¹ on its lower end stationed
on an arbor G 2 fitted in the framing.
This vertical rocking lever has attached thereto two rollers G3 G4 (shown
only in dotted lines in Fig. 3) which at each revolution of a cam H¹ Fig. 3
are moved laterally thereby so as to rock the lever to and fro and thereby
communicate a similar action to the pawl-actuating-rocking-lever B 3.
The spur wheel F during heel and toe knitting is driven by a pinion F 2 on a
countershaft F 3 which receives motion from a pulley F 4 and a belt in the usual
manner.
The spur wheel F is also connected by a rod R¹ (shown in dotted line in Fig. 3)
to a quadrant R which gears with a spur wheel R 2 on the driving shaft and
reciprocates it.
The main driving belt by which the machine is operated during circular leg
knitting is shifted on to the loose pulley, while heel and toe knitting is being done,
the driving shaft being meanwhile reciprocated by the quadrant R.
The second part of this invention comprises improved means, as hereinafter
described and shown in reference to Figs. 1, 7 and 8 for moving the curved
racks into and out of the path of the cam-actuating-bevel wheel just
immediately prior to the commencement and after the completion of, respectively,
the knitting of the heels and toes.
In the Specification of the herein before mentioned Patent No. 3 of 1890 each
curved rack, (shown therein as inverted) is by means of a pin on the bottom
thereof caused to travel within a slot or groove in segments T T¹ respectively, each
slot being provided at its end with an inwardly inclined extension termed a
clearance slot, which enables the said racks to be moved towards the centre of
the machine and out of the path of the cam-actuating-bevel wheel.
This construction is attended with considerable disadvantage as should a press-off
take place and for that or other reasons it be desired to move the curved racks out
of the path of the bevel wheel it cannot be done at the moment, as the machine
must continue in motion until the pin of the said racks reaches and enters the
clearance slots before referred to.
This defect is obviated by our improvements which consist in arranging the two

page_text: segments T T Fig. 7 so that they are movable to or from the centre of the machine
at any moment during its operation.
For this purpose the said segments (which are interposed between the two rack
rings as shown and described in the said Patent No. 3 of 1890) are provided with
an outwardly extending plate J movable in a path formed in an extension J¹ on the
bed plate.
Each of the said plates is provided with a cam slot J 2 having therein a pin J 3
Fig. 8 projecting from the under edge of a circular band J 4 encircling the bed
plate and to which is attached one end of a connecting rod K the other end of the
latter being fixed to a lever K¹ Fig. 1 fulcrummed at K2 to the framing.
Upon the said lever being moved to the right or to the left it partially rotates
the band J 4 and causes the pins J 3 thereon to travel in the cam slots J 2 and
slide the segmental plates T T to or from the centre of the machine and into or
ont of the path of the cam actuating bevel wheel.
This as is obvious may be done at any period during the working of the machine
and without it being necessary to wait until the completion of the heel and toe
knitting.
The third part of the invention has reference to improved mechanism for
effecting a gradation in the diametrical width of the fabric produced.
This stiffening of the fabric as it is technically termed is effected according to
our invention by improved mechanism actuating the usual stiffening lever of the
machine.
Referring to Fig. 5, L represents the usual stiffening lever which as shown by
dotted lines is attached to a circular plate L' having a series of inclines thereon
upon which rest other oppositely disposed inclines on the bottom of either the
needle or sinker cylinder L 2 according to which cylinder is employed for stiffening
purposes.
Any to or fro movement of the stiffening lever partially rotates the circular plate
and causes the inclines to raise or lower the cylinder L2 so that larger or smaller
loops and consequently an increased or decreased diameter of fabric is produced,
as is sufficiently well understood to need no further description.
For moving the stiffening lever to or fro as described it is connected by a
Ecrew L 3 to a two-armed lever M M' pivotted at M 2 and fulcrummed at M 3 to a
slotted arm M* forming part of the framing of the machine.
The shorter arm M of the lever bears against a cam or eccentric N (shown only
in dotted line in Fig. 5) mounted bebind a ratchet wheel N¹ or an axle N 2 having
a bearing in the arm.
The ratchet wheel is driven by stops O on a pattern chain O' passing over
two tension pulleys 02 03 and a sprocket wheel O 4 from which it derives its
motion.
The latter is rigidly carried on the same axle O 6 as a ratchet wheel O 5 rotated
by a pawl 07 pivotted at its upper end to a two armed lever 08 09 fulcrummed
at O to the standard and having its end in contact with a cam or eccentric P,
Fig. 6 carried on the same axle as a spur wheel P¹ which gears with a pinion P 2
on the main driving shaft P 3.
The chain as will be well understood is arranged so that its whole length passes
under the ratchet wheel once during the knitting of the stocking or sock and the
stops are arranged on the chain to actuate the ratchet wheel during the time that
the narrowest part of the leg fabric is being knitted.
The distance between the stops determines the number of courses made of any
one size loops before the change is made to a loop of smaller size.
Each time the stop O encounters a tooth of the ratchet wheel N¹ and partly
rotates the latter the cam or eccentric N is also similarly actuated and as each
movement of the ratchet wheel causes the cam to push the arm M of the lever
gradually farther away from it, the latter also draws with it the longer arm M¹
and the end of the stiffening lever L so that the circular plate L' is partly rotated

page_text: and gradually either raises or lowers the cylinder O2 so that the needles are
thereby caused to increase or decrease the size of the loops to correspondingly
widen or narrow the tubular fabric as is generally well understood.
The fabric may be more or less gradually stiffened by a proportionately greater
or smaller number of teeth in the ratchet wheel N¹ and stops on the chain O¹.
A spiral spring M 5 attached one end to the stiffening lever and the other end'
to the framing maintains the arm M against the eccentric N.
It is obvious that the intermediate lever M M' might be dispensed with and
the cam or eccentric arranged to act directly on the stiffening lever.
The fourth of the invention comprises an improved arrangement of cams and
means for actuating these to effect the proper selection of needles during the
knitting of the heels and toes.
The main feature of this part of the invention is a slidable carriage having
two fixed cams attached which when moved up or down relatively to the
stitch cams, divert the needles into either the non-knitting groove or the knitting
groove.
Referring to Figs. 9 and 10. S represents the cam shell to which are fixed the
usual stitch cams U U₁ and guard plates U 2 U 3.
Between these are located two cams V V¹ fixed to a slide or movable
carriage V 2 located in a groove formed by cutting away a part of the thickness
of the shell S.
The slide V 2 has on its back a pin V 3, Fig. 10 passing through a slot (shown
in dotted lines in Fig. 10) in the cam shell S and on the pin is a truck or roller V 4
free to revolve thereon.
At each to and fro movement of the cam shell, while heel and toe knitting, the
roller V 4 ascends a raised platform W so that the two cams V V' are elevated
into the position indicated by the dotted lines and while in this position the needles.
pass through the non-knitting groove a a.
At the end of the platform the said roller encounters the downwardly depending
end W 3 of a plate W₁ which pushes the roller V 4 downwards and so restores the
cams V V to their normal positions as shown in Fig. 9 the needles then pass
through the knitting groove a. b. c.
The roller raising and lowering plates W Ware attached to a vertical plate W 2
and form between them a passage through which the said roller passes.
The vertical plate has on its opposite side a horizontal extension W 4 by which
it is secured to the radial slide referred to in the before mentioned patent so that it
may be used in substitution of the inverted racks therein described.
On the exterior of the cam shell is rigidly fastened by bolt X' a spring X the
narrow end of which is thickened so as to pass through a slot in the cam shell and
press against the slide V 2 and steady its movement when actuated by the
roller V 4.
Although we have herein before described some of our improvements in reference
to the said Patent No. 3 of 1890 for the purpose of enabling them the more readily
to be comprehended, yet at the same time we wish it understood that we do not.
claim anything therein claimed ; and instead of the tipping cam and curved racks
for actuating it we prefer to use the cams herein shown and described with
reference to Figs. 9 to 12.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is: 11
1. In a knitting machine the combination of two worms and two circular racks.
for traversing cam actuating devices, a spur wheel on each of the said worms gearing
into another spur wheel having on its axle two ratchet wheels with oppositely
disposed teeth, a rocking lever with four pawls for driving the said ratchet wheels,
a device for holding two of the said pawls out of action while the other two are in

page_text: gear, a shaft and a cam thereon for actuating the said rocking lever substantially
as described.
2. In a knitting machine the combination of two worms and two circular racks
for traversing cam actuating devices, a spur wheel on each of the said worms
engaging another spur wheel having on its axle two ratchet wheels with oppositely
disposed teeth, a rocking lever furnished with four pawls for actuating the said
ratchet wheels, a revoluble guard plate for keeping two of the said pawls out of
action and allowing the other two to work and means for moving the said guard
plate to reverse the action of the said pawls between the operations of narrowing
and widening the heel and toes substantially as described.
3. In a knitting machine the combination of two worms and two circular racks
for traversing cam actuating devices, two spur wheels on the said worms, gearing
into two other spur wheels each having on its axlo two ratchet wheels with
oppositely disposed teeth, a rocking lever provided with pawls for each pair of
ratchet wheels, a revoluble guard for moving two of the said pawls out of action
and the other two into work, a rocking lever and link connections between it and
the revoluble guard plate and mechanism for actuating the said rocking lever
substantially as described.
4. In a knitting machine the combination with the stiffening lever of a can or
eccentric for directly or indirectly actuating it and means for actuating the said
cam or eccentric for the purpose described.
5. In a knitting machine the combination of two circular racks and two worms
for operating cam actuating devices, a spur wheel on each of the said worms,
engaging a similar wheel having also on its axle two ratchet wheels with oppositely
disposed teeth, four pawls for driving the said ratchet wheels, and means for
actuating the pawls, a revoluble guard adapted to hold two of the said pawls out of
action while the other two are in work, link connections between the said guard
and rocking lever, a cam and means between it and the rocking lever, to actuate
latter substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.
6. In a knitting machine the combination with the stiffening lever of a cam or
eccentric with or without mechanism interposed between it and the stiffening lever,
a ratchet wheel on the same axle as the cam or eccentric, a pattern chain and stops
thereon for actuating the ratchet wheel substantially as described.
7. In a knitting machine the combination with two circular racks and cam
actuating devices of two segmental slides for moving the said cam actuating devices
to or from the centre of the machine and for the purpose described.
8. In a knitting machine the combination with two circular racks and cam
actuating devices of two segmental slides, cam slots therein, a circular band and
pins thereon to enter the said cam slots and a lever or levers and connections to
move the said circular band in the manner and for the purpose described.
9. In a knitting machine the combination with two fixed stitch cams of two other
cams, movable together relatively thereto so that when the latter are in one
position the needles are directed into the knitting groove and when in the other
position the needles are directed into the non-knitting groove substantially as
described.
10. In a knitting machine the combination with two fixed stitch cams of two
other cams, movable together relatively thereto and fixed to a slide in the cam
shell, adapted to be raised and lowered at each reciprocal movement of the cam
shell to direct the needles into the non-knitting groove and the knitting groove
respectively substantially as described.
11. In a knitting machine the combination with two fixed stitch cams of two
other cams, movable together relatively thereto and fixed to a slide having a roller
or equivalent attached adapted to be raised or lowered by devices carried by two
circular racks such as R R¹ moving in opposite directions substantially in the
manner and for the purpose described.
12. In a circular reversible knitting machine the improved mechanism for
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page_text: actuating the worms A A* circular racks R R and curved racks r¹, constructed,
arranged and operating substantially in the manner described and illustrated in
Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawings.
13. In a circular reversible knitting machine the improved arrangement of
mechanism for stiffening the legs of stockings and socks substantially as described
and illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 of the accompanying drawings.
14. In a circular reversible knitting machine the improved construction and
arrangement of segmental slides and mechanism for actuating them substantially as
described and illustrated in Figs. 1.7 and 8 of the accompanying drawings.
15. The improved arrangement of cams and mechanism for actuating them in
the manner specified during heel and toe knitting substantially as described and.
illustrated in Figs. 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 30th day of July 1896.
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Witness-
E. N. LEWIS,
Berridge Street Chambers,
Leicester.
WILLIAM SPIERS.
THOMAS SCOTT GRIEVE.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicants.