Improvements in Circular Knitting Machines.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 14th May, 1896-Accepted, 20th June,
1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Circular Knitting Machines.
I WILLIAM TERTIUS ROWLETT of No. 34 Newarke Street Leicester in the
County of Leicester, Yarn Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in the application of a double endel needle to a circular
knitting machine so constructed that the needle may be transferred from the
cylinder to the dial and rice versa for the purpose of making different varieties of
ribbed and plain fabric.
In order to facilitate the transfer of the double ended needles from dial to
cylinder or vice versa I may construct these needles bent at any convenient
angle.
I provide for the application of my improvement to circular knitting machines
constructed in such fashion that not only may the machine be worked with a
rotative motion for the purpose of producing circular web, but it may also be
worked with a reciprocative motion for the purpose of producing fashioned web.
Dated this 14th day of August 1895.
W. T. ROWLETT.
I WILLIAM TERTIUS ROWLETT, of 34 Newarke Street, Leicester, Yarn
Merchant, 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 :-
My invention consists in the novel application of double ended or two hooked
needles to knitting machines. The needle is so constructed that it may be
transferred from the cylinder to the dial and from the dial to the cylinder as
desired for the purpose of making different varieties of ribbed and plain fabric.
In order to facilitate the transfer of the double ended needles from the dial to the
cylinder or vice versi I bend the needles so that one end stands at an angle with the
other.
This needle may also be applied to straight knitting machines and can be
transferred from one needle bed to the other to produce the different kinds of
ribbed or plain work as required.
The needles may either be formed with hooks and latches or they may be
bearded needles or they may be furnished at one end with a hook and latch and at
the other with a beard.
The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.
Fig. 1. is a view of a needle having a hook and latch at each end.
Fig. 2, is a view of a needle having a beard at each end.
Fig. 3. is a view of a needle having a hook and latch at one end and a beard at
the other.
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page_text: The hooks a. a¹ and latches b. b' as also the beards d. are constructed and work
in the ordinary manner.
The hook.a and latch 6 of the needle perform the operations usually performed
by the cylinder needle of a circular knitting machine and the hook a' and latch b¹
perform the operations usually performed by the dial needle. The needle is bent
so that the end c stands at an angle with the end c. In the drawings this angle
is shewn as a right angle but such may be deviated from in certain cases and
the two ends c c of the needle may be the same or of different lengths. The
two ends of the needle may be made separately and be joined together at the angle
instead of bent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The use in circular knitting machines of double ended or two hooked needles
which may be transferred from the dial to the cylinder and vice versa, substantially
as described.
2. The double ended or two hooked needle bent at an angle, as described and
illustrated and for the purpose specified.
3. A bent or double ended needle having the two ends at an angle one to the
other and provided either with a hook and latch at each end or a beard at
each end or a hook and latch at one end and a beard at the other end, substantially
as described.
Dated this 13th day of May 1896.