Improvements in and connected with Knitting Machines and Knitted Fabrics.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 13th Dec., 1897-Accepted, 12th May, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Knitting Machines and
Knitted Fabrics.
GEORGE FREDERICK STURGESS, Hosiers Engineer, The Inglenook, Leicester, in
the County of Leicester, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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Improvements in and connected with knitting machines.
The improvements consist of new methods, structural parts and appliances.
The main features are applicable to many styles of machines. It will suffice to
describe them as applied to a circular knitter of the reversible type.
First, Improved method and means of making lined and double fabrics, that is
to say, fabrics in which two threads are employed and some loops are drawn to the
right and some loops are drawn to the left. The lower thread is fed onto the
closing latches of the vertical needles immediately underneath the out-thrown
radial needles, and the upper thread as usual. The thread holes are adjustable
from position to position. The radial set of needles is a combination of needles
having different widths of tails, or, a combination of different lengths of tails.
The narrowest or shortest tailed needle tilts its hook onto the bottom thread; the
medium tailed needle tilts its hook to a point the width of a hook above the bottom
thread; the broadest or longest tailed needle will present its hook to a point the
width of the two hooks above the bottom thread. By this arrangement the rib
needles will take the upper thread only.
Producing a lined, or, a double fabric (hereinafter called double fabric) pre-
senting a plain face. By switching the lower thread up to the top position all
rib needles knit it, producing normal 1 and 1 rib fabric; by switching it down a
step the width of a hook, the hooks of the broadest or longest tailed needles only
will miss it, producing a double fabric presenting a 3 and 1 rib face; by switching
it down another step the hooks of the broadest or longest and medium tailed needles
only will miss it, making a double fabric presenting a 3 and 1 face half round,
and a plain face half round, as in the foot of a ribbed stocking. To assist in the
tilting of the needle I cut the base of the dial needle trick at its outer edge at a
conical angle. To further assist in the tilting, I cut the base of the dial needle
trick at its inner end at an inverted conical angle, making the base of the needle
trick inclined inwards and outwards, the apex or junction of the incline being
about level with the point of the thrust cam from the centre of the machine. To
get more changes of the pattern of rib I control the tilting action by a disc of
cams, any one of which can be switched circumferentially into position or out of
position with the knitting cams at will. A tube on the rib spindle supports the
disc in the well of the dial. The cams are arranged on the periphery of this disc,
and press on the needle tails and prevent them tilting. Each cam is arranged at

page_text: a different radius from the centre of the spindle, and when arranged with three
cams, each cam is a quarter of a circle distant from its neighbouring cam. The
cam
nearest the centre of the disc reaches over the longest tails, the cam
second from the centre reaches over the longest but one tails, and the
cam farthest from the centre reaches. over the longest but two tails. Certain
needles will tilt according to which disc cam is held at the point of thrust of the
needles. The upper end of the tube, has four arms radiating from the centre at
different heights. A vertical bar rising from the cam cylinder hits up against
one of the radiating arms and holds the corresponding disc cam in knitting
position. This vertical bar is adjusted by turning a hand catch wheel having a
pattern surface, arranged at its lower end. This catch wheel can be actuated
automatically by lugs on the pattern chain. When the vertical bar catches the
first arm all disc cams will be out of knitting position and will not influence the
tilting at thrust point. When the vertical bar catches the second arm, the longest
tailed needles will not tilt, and when it catches the third arm the longest but one
tailed needles will not tilt, and when it catches the fourth arm the longest but
two tailed needles will not tilt. When necessary I use these disc cams to withdraw
the needle foot into the needle tricks to suspend the knitting action of the needle.
Second. A telescopic needle.
A wire sheath (preferably in the form of a staple between the bars of which the
needle tail slides), fits on the tail of the needle. When the needle meets an
obstruction such as the dial spindle the needle closes up.
Third. I separate the thrust and draw cams by putting the draw, cam onto an
independent support. This independent support has sufficient back play to allow
the draw cam to trail behind the thrust cam in either directions of knitting. The
thrust cam passes by the face of the draw cam, or over it by sliding up and down
the inclines, or by arranging them on different levels out of each other's line of
travel. The first plan is best adapted to the radial ribber of a small hose machine,
in which one is confined for space; and the second plan to machines in which both
cams act on the needle foot; and the third plan to machines using my improved
needle in which the thrust cam is entirely below the level of the draw cam. In
the first plan the draw cam is suspended from the needle tricks sufficiently to allow.
the thin thrust cam to pass by between the draw cam and needle tricks. In the
second plan the draw or thrust cam, preferably the latter, slides in its support and
recedes longitudinally from its knitting level while the draw cam passes by; in
the third plan the thrust cam is arranged under and acting on the tail of the
needle and the draw cam is arranged above and acting on the foot of the needle..
Fourth. To prevent a cotton or other backing thread getting deranged and
shewing on the woollen face of the fabric, I feed the woollen thread from the
inside face and the cotton thread from the outside of the latch fender, which I
mount independent of the thread holes. One hole delivers its threads radially
to the angle hooked vertical needles on the back taper of the cylinder tricks, the
other hole delivers its thread vertically to the closing latches of the vertical needles
on to the front taper of the cylinder, through a bar mounted radially. From this.
bar and at the back of the holes hangs the latch fender, hood and the take-up, all
pointing to the centre of the machine. The take-up is held down when the
machine is rotating by a balance or spring catch on the cam plate. To reverse
the positions of the threads and thereby bring first one colour and then the other
colour-alternately to the face of the fabric, I join the two thread holes in the bar,
and pivot two levers having each a thread hole one cach side the radial bar. These
two levers are connected by a further lever, and. when one is switched to the upper
position, the other returns to the lower position thereby changing the threads.
I effect the switching of the levers automatically by connecting one lever to a
pattern catch wheel, similar to the catch wheel mentioned in the first improvement.
Fifth. To automatically twist a thread into the needles and sever it off at will;
I pivot a switch lever-and a pair of scissors. on. the cam cap, and actuate them by

page_text: cams connected to the stationary ribber spindle. When the switch lever twists
the thread into the needle hooks the scissors release it and the needles knit it in.
When the switch lever swings the thread within the circle of the needle hooks
the scissors sever it and retain the end. The scissors are constructed to sever the
thread by tensioning it between the two blades across the knife edge which severs
it. For stripping, I employ an extra switch lever on the cam cap, each lever having
a thread of different colour or texture. When one lever switches into knitting
position the other retires and its thread is severed in the manner indicated.
Sixth. A spring-tailed needle.
I split the turned up tail of the needle into two parts; the two ends thus made
are sprung apart to make them flexible. To regulate the longitudinal action of
the needles I square or flatten the bend of the tail which enables me to apply a cam
under the tail end of the needle as indicated in the first improvement.
Seventh. When transferring loops great friction is caused between the needles
therefore to steady the loops and support the needle I provide a supporting bar of
wire lengthwise with the needles extending from the tail past the side curve and
finishing underneath the latch. The bar is a continuation of the needle tail folded
on the underneath side or the side of the needle, or it may be seperate therefrom
in the form of a sliding tail of the telescopic needle mentioned in the second
improvement. The bar offers no resistance to the outlet of the thread when the
loops get between it and the needle.
Eighth. To vary the length of loop drawn, I screw to the cam plate a lever and
provide a spring to slide the draw cam. The stitch cam is pressed against the
lever by the action of the spring. The other end of the lever presses on the
pattern surface of a catch wheel similar to the catch wheel mentioned. By turning
the catch wheel the draw cam is shifted from position to position.
Ninth. A self-centering ribber support.
I screw to the faced flange of the cam-box in an upright position a turned pillar
on the top of which a radial arm is screwed. This radial arm has two holes bored
at the correct distance apart, one at either end. One hole fits onto the upright
pillar, and the inner hole fits on the ribber spindle and supports the ribber. For
setting the ribber an adjustable sleeve is used, secured by a screw on the turned
pillar.
Tenth. To enable a needle to better secure the transferred loop I cut the needle
tricks of the cylinder at a slight angle to the radial line and thereby turn the needle
hooks slightly from the radial line."
Eleventh. For controlling the needle latches I use wired bristles, that is to say,
bristles fastened together between two strands of twisted wire. For opening the
needle latches I lay a length or band of the wired bristles across the grooves at
the back of and lying at right angles to the needles. To prevent the latches
closing prematurely, I fix an adjustable length of the wired bristles in place of
the usual latch fender. The adjustable length is held in action by a spring and
is drawn out of action by turning a lever over.
Twelfth. The pattern chain wheel is on the bearing of the driving shaft, and
a cam is on the shaft at the side of the said chain wheel. A lever, having a
clawker at one end and a roller at the other, is pivoted to the frame-work over the
chain wheel. By the action of a spring on the lever the roller rides on the cam
and racks the chain wheel round by oscillating the clawker. Upon this chain
wheel are put lugs for imparting automatic action to the various parts of the
machine as indicated.
Thirteenth. The driving pulley runs loosely on the shaft and is driven by the
friction of a disc mounted eccentrically on the shaft its periphery pressing onto the
inner flange of the driving pulley by the action of a spring which pulls the disc
in one direction. A pivoted lock is provided on the gear wheel of the machine
which can be switched in either direction by a hand lever. A pin from the side
of the disc enters the lock. By putting the hand lever down and giving the

page_text: machine one turn, the lock strikes on the lever and shifts its position, when the
spring pulls the disc onto the flange of the pulley, and the machine is rotated by
the friction between the disc & the flange of the pulley. By pulling the hand
lever up, the lock strikes it and turns the disc back away from the flange of the
pulley and the machine stops. The lifting, of the hand lever is effected automati-
cally by a lug on the patterning chain.
Fourteenth. To cause certain needles to cast off their loops, I separate the leading
wing of the draw cam and make it adjustable. A spring presses the wing cam up to a
lever pivoted on the cam plate which rides on the pattern catch wheel referred to;
according to where this catch wheel is turned the wing cam descends or rises.
When the wing cam is at the lowest point all the needles descend with the knitting
thread upon theirs; at its highest point the needles remain up longer and
descend later, & the thread gets under the short latched needles and slips over
their hooks.
Fifteenth. I cast a series of loops off at one point of the article and a further
series of loops off at another point of the article by the employment of the said
catch wheel referred to & the following means. A combination of short, medium and
long footed needles are employed and the wing cam is split up as it were into
three inclines, causing the needles to be withdrawn, and draws the needles at
three angles. The back incline is fixed to the cam plates and draws the long
footed needles at the first angle. The second incline draws the medium footed
needle at the second angle, and the third incline draws the short footed needles
at the third angle. The third and second inclines are adjusted together by the
catch wheel. When the adjustable wing cam is at its highest point the short
and medium footed needles will cast their loops. When the wing cam is at the
middle position only the short footed needles cast their loops and when the wing
cam is at the lowest position all needle latches catch the thread and knit.
Sixteenth. To accommodate a needle that have a bend or protuberance at the side
of its stem and to strengthen the inner and weaker and of a dial needle trick I make
the dial with the needle tricks broader at the base than at the top of the tricks.
In one method of making I secure two tricked dials face to face with the tricks
in line with each other. The lower dial has its trick broad enough to take the
full width of the needle including the bend and the upper dial has the tricks cut
narrower namely, the normal gauge of the needle. The inner part of the upper
dial, behind the indrawn needle foot is left uncut, leaving a solid of metal forming
a bridge over the lower tricks under which the tails of the needles slide. The two
dials are secured being screwed together as one complete dial.
Seventeenth. 1 shorten the web needle, described in Patent No. 20835, 1894,
and bring its foot through the front of the cylinder, and its hook through a saw-
gate in the upper edge of the cylinder.. Saw-gates are cut at the top of the
cylinder, and radial tricks are cut through the cylinder at the side of the knitting
needle. The web needle is threaded through this radial trick. When in position
the body of the web needle is inside the cylinder, with its foot projecting through
the radial trick.
Eighteenth. To impart a combined radial and vertical action to the web needle,
the end of the web needle foot is cramped at right angles, until it is thereabouts
parallel with the stem, preferably in the downward direction. Cams are arranged
above and below the foot to give the web needle its vertical action as usual, and
cams are also arranged inside and outside the pendent end of the foot to give the
web needle a horizontal or radial action. By timing these vertical and horizontal
acting cams the web needle has the following action in relation to the knitted
loop The hook of the web needle slides out of the trick radially, the yarn is
drawn within the line of the hook, the hook next rises vertically, it next draws
inward securing the yarn loop, then it draws downward vertically the distance of
the length of the loop and tensions it.
Nineteenth. I make the yarn support reversible in order that by one way of

page_text: fixing, it will be the usual height, and by the other way of fixing, it will stand
higher, as is required when a bobbin is put on the machine. From its boss a
curved arm extends upward and outward (when in one position) to the centre of
the machine.
On the end of this arm over the machine is a ring having a circle
of thread holes. By the horizontal adjustment of this yarn cross on its pillar, one
or other of the holes will come immediately over the centre of the machine,
different lengths of cross for small and large machines being rendered unnecessary.
Fitted in the back of the boss and threaded on the pillar, is another ring having
a circle of holes to conduct the threads from the bobbins. A screw through the
boss and ring secures the whole to the pillar.
Twenty. I put a split tube for the thread to run through. The bobbin of
auxiliary thread is on this tube.
Twenty-one. Link work for rotating at one speed and reciprocating at another
speed specially adaptable for light domestic machines. I mount three eccentric
pins one on each of three segmental or entire discs arranged to revolve in the same
plane, one at each corner of a triangle and connect them up with three links.
Each pin is linked to both of the other pins. Number 1 pin is driven constantly
in one direction and imparts rotary motion to Number 2 and Number 3 pins,
through the links. No. 2 pin turns the gear wheel of the machine and Number 3
pin simply helps the other pins over their dead centres. The link that connects
Number 2 pin to Number 3 pin is hinged parallel to the eccentric pins. By
lifting the centre of this hinged link it is shortened, with the result that Number 2
and Number 3 pins cannot get over their dead centres, (though Number 1 is still
rotating), and commence to oscillate causing the machine to reciprocate. To
prevent locking at the dead centres, when reciprocating, Number 1 pin is held
in its radial position by the pressure of a spring. In order to reduce the speed
when reversing I connect a sixty-toothed pinion to Number 2 pin, and gear it to
a twenty toothed pinion on the gear wheel of the machine, (or any other com-
bination of change gear). By the 60 and 20 toothed gear, the machine when
rotating goes three rounds to one round of the eccentric pins, and when recipro-
cating the machine goes there and back only to one turn of Number 1 eccentric pin.
Twenty-two. Crank and link work for rotating and reciprocating adapted for
heavy automatic machines. I provide two eccentric or cranks arranged in different
positions circumferentially on the machine shaft and connect them by two links
to two similar eccentrics or cranks which are coupled up together by a clutch
and mounted parallel to the former cranks. When the coupled-up cranks are
driven together the machine rotates. By uncoupling the coupled cranks the driven
crank rotates whilst the other three cranks being unable to get over their dead
centres oscillate changing the machine from a rotatory to a reciprocatory motion
to get the machine to reciprocate far enough, the gear wheel of the machine has
double the number of teeth that the cam box has.
Twenty-three. For designing patterns. I make the designing apparatus (known
as the Sturgess Designer) to revolve at a slower speed than its gauge calls for, I
gear it down by connecting the cylinder and designer with intermediate spur
wheels. To make the designer revolve at a still slower speed, I gear the inter-
mediate wheels to the top of the ribber spindle instead of the cylinder. I employ
a wire ring to act as a fulcrum for the pickers. I use a combination of pickers
having different widths of tail: a picker with the broadest tail will slide its needle
the full extent; a picker with the tail of medium width will slide its needle a
shorter distance; and a picker with the narrowest tail will slide its needle a still
shorter distance. I make the picker with a fan end broad enough to pick three
needles; and by cutting away the centre portion of the fan the picker will pick
one needle each side only and leave the centre needle unpicked. By cutting corre-
sponding parts of the fan away, I make a picker that will pick any one or two of
the three needles that it covers. By these means one trick in the designer serves
for three needles,

page_text: Twenty-four. Inclined cams are provided to put the needles through their
longitudinal action for transfering their loops to adjacent needles.
loted this Tonth day of Wah 1907
Improvements in and connected with Knitting Machines and
Knitted Fabrics.
GEORGE FREDERICK STURGESS, The Ingle-nook, Leicester, in the County of
Leicester, Hosier's Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention consists of improvements in knitting machines & improved
fabrics, & has for its object the manufacture of foot wear automatically.
It comprises a crank and link gear, whereby rotatory and reciprocatory motions
are communicated alternately through the medium of a connecting link and crank
pins from a rotatory shaft to the machine and means of avoiding the dead centres
of motion: a simplified or transplacable form of needle cams and cam attachments:
designers of greater utility and methods of driving the same to correctly time the
operation of a picker: improved needles; needle latch controllers: needle holders;
needle beds and supports: guides and feeds for the threads: web holding devices:
loop-transferring and cast-off cams: needle tilting or controlling cams and
mechanism automatic controlling and connecting parts and devices therefor and
improvements in construction involved.
Fig. 1 is a view in elevation of my improved machine with the hoop designer
applied and Figs. 1^, 13, 1º, 1° and 1 are details. Fig. 2 is a plan view and
Fig. 3 a side elevation of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 and Fig. 3" are details of Fig. 3.
Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of the ribber. Fig. 4 a plan view and Figs. 4"
and 4 sectional views of the dial. Fig. 4° is a plan view of the tilt-cam fingers.
Fig. 4 is an elevation view of the chain. Fig. 4* is a plan view of the plunger
cam rack wheel.
Fig. 5 is a view in elevation of one set of needles and two threads and Figs. 5^,
5 and 5° the fabric made thereby. Fig. 5° is a view in elevation of two sets of
needles and two threads and Figs. 5, 5' and 5° the fabric made thereby. Fig. 5"
is a view in elevation of two sets of needles and three threads and Figs. 5', 5' and
5 the fabric made thereby. Fig. 5 is a plan view of Fig. 5.
Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of a square hook of a needle. Fig. 5 is an enlarged
view of the trick of the needle bed.
Fig. 6 is a perspective view and Fig. 6 a plan view of two sets of needles and
two threads and Figs. 6 and 6 the fabric made thereby. Fig. 6º is a side view
of a needle. Figs. 6 and 6ª are views in elevation and Fig. 6 is a plan view of
the radial cam plate and splicer and striper devices. Figs. 6" and 6¹ are plan
views of cams therefor. Fig. 6 is an end view and Fig. 6 a face view of a
fabric having eyelet holes.
Fig. 7 is an elevation, Fig. 7 a plan and Fig. 7" a sectional view and Figs. 7°,
7 and 7 are detail views of cast-off cams.
Fig. 8 is a sectional view, Fig. 8* is a plan view and Fig. 83 is an inside view of
web needles and cams. Fig. 8 is a side view of a web needle. Fig. 8° is another
sectional view and Fig. 8 a top view of web needle cams. Fig. 8 is a view of a

page_text: compound dial post. Fig. 8° is a sectional view of the construction of the bristled
brushes used. Figs. 8", 8" and 8% are back views and Figs. 8, 8* and 8" are side
views of spring-tailed needles. Figs. 87 and 8% are side views of needles.
Fig. 9 is a side view of one form of the link and crank driving gear and Fig. 9
is another view of the same shewing the connecting links and crank pins. Figs. 9"
and 9° are details of the driving pulley.
Figs. 10 and 10 are side views, Fig. 10" a top and Fig. 10° a sectional view of
devices for adjusting the throw of the driving crank pin.
Figs. 11 and 11 are elevation views of connecting links and crank pins with the
driving crank pin in rotatory position, and Figs. 11" and 11° are elevation views
of the same with the driving crank pin in reciprocatory position, in which a fixed
link pin situated between the driving and driven shafts takes the place of the
third, rotary pin of the former method of mounting the gear.
Fig. 12 is a view in elevation of connecting links and crank pins with the driven
crank pin in reciprocatory position, and Fig. 12 is a view with the driven crank
pin in rotatory position in which the fixed link pin is situated outside the driving
and driven shafts.
Figs. 13 and 13 are views in elevation of a machine with a cone shaped geared
designer and also a revolving picker device or designer attached. Figs. 13 and
13 are views of pickers for the revolving picker device. Figs. 13 and 13 are
views of fulcrummed pickers. Fig. 13 is a perspective view of the adjustable cross.
Fig. 14 is a sectional view, Fig. 14 a plan view and Fig. 14 an underside view
of the upper part, and Fig. 14" a top view of the lower part and Fig. 14° a sectional
view and Fig. 14 a side view of a built up radial needle bed.
Fig. 15 is a view of the transplacable needle cams adapted to the needle finger
of an automatic heel and toe machine, and Fig. 15 a plan view of same. Figs. 15"
and 15, 15", 15 and 15 are detail views of the needle finger as adapted to the
transplacable method of needle cams.
Referring to Sheet 5, the dotted line 72% Fig. 5" represents a red, the full
lines 72° a black and the double lines 72 represent a white thread.
Referring to Fig. 13, the needle picking device or designer 1 is a cone shaped
wheel and is mounted at an angle to the axis of the machine on spindle 2. It is
geared by wheel 3 to the pinion wheel 4 fixed to the ribber supporting spindle 5.
The intervening wheels 3.and 4 gear the designer to revolve at a slower speed than
when the designer is geared direct to the cylinder; that is to say the designer is
driven at a reduced speed in relation to the needles or needle cams.
Referring to Figs.. 1 and 2, the needle picking device or designer 6 is hoop
shaped and is mounted on flange 7, and has external teeth 11. It is driven at
a reduced speed by being geared to the teeth 8 of the needle cylinder through the
intervening wheel
and spur wheel 10; the wheel 3 engaging the teeth of the
cylinder and the wheel 10 engaging with the external designer teeth 11.
The revolving spring controlled needle picker device comprises a bar of metal
or picker arm 12 having a fan end 13 and hole 14 mounted free upon a rotatable
body comprising a shaft 15 and a disc 15, and is yieldingly held to the disc 15"
by spring 21 on screw 20. This revolving picker is driven by the teeth 8 of the
cylinder through wheel 9, bevel wheel 16, spur wheel 17 and pinion 18, in the
manner shewn in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. This picker rotates round its own centre and
engages the designer pickers and thence the needles, the picker arm striking the
tails of the designer pickers as they pass its line of travel, causing them to slide
corresponding cylinder needles. In operation, as the dise 15 revolves, the picker
arm 12 strikes a designer picker and yields by the action of the spring 21 until
the designer picker passes by the guard cam 22 over which the designer pickers
run, when the pull of the controlling spring 21 on the revolving picker shoots the
designer picker and its corresponding needle up. The spring 21 then returns
the picker to its first position seen in Fig. 1, ready to strike another designer
picker in its next revolution. Guard cam 22 is pivoted by screws 22ª to bear-

page_text: ing 22 and has a handle 22 with which it may be thrown out of engagement with
the designer pickers in order to annul the action of the pickers on the needles.
A number of picker arms 12 are employed fixed in the form of teeth radiating
from the disc 15 and the controlling spring 21 dispensed with in some gauges of
machines.
In Figs. 13 and 13, the revolving needle picker device is shown applied direct
to the needles wherein the picker arms are rotated as to make a stroke substan-
tially vertical with the needle and engage or mesh directly with the needle feet,
being driven by the teeth 8 of the cylinder through the spur wheel 24, pinion 25
and bevel wheels 26 and 27, at such a speed that one picker has moved its needle
before the adjacent picker engages with the next needle.
Referring to Figs. 13 and 13", the picker arms or pickers 23 are provided with
fan ends 28 and holes 29 in their stems 30 and are secured by screws 31ª to a
rotatable body or disc 31 and shaft 31 mounted in bearing 31°. As the disc 31
revolves each picker arm meshes with the foot of and slides or moves a needle.
In order to pick a plurality of needles at one stroke or collectively, pickers or
picker arms are used with their fan end broad enough to cover or move any number
of needles required. For instance, the compound picker 32 shewn in Fig. 13°
a broad fan end 28 and consequently will pick more needles than the picker shewn
in Fig. 13. In machines, the fine gauges of which require that the pickers or
picker arms should be put very close together, radial sawgates are provided in the
disc 31 into which the picker arms are fitted edgeways. Picker arms are omitted
corresponding to the pattern required.
Referring to Sheets 1, 2 and 13.
To detachably secure the pickers in their
tricks the flexible steel wire ring 33, is sprung into the undercut groove 34 of the
designer and bow 35 of the designer pickers. This ring also serves as a pivot or
fulcrum for the pickers to rock upon.
Referring to Fig. 13, the elevating cam 36 is on top of the pickers and acts
upon their tails. The arm 36" to which the cam is screwed is held stationary by
pin 36 through bracket 36 which is secured to the cam ring 104.
To provide for picking needles to different levels in order to cause some needles
to take one thread and some another thread, several forms of designer pickers are
used in which the position of their needle or fan ends and cam points vary in
relation to their centre of motion.
Referring to Figs. 1, 14 and 1", 35 is the centre of motion or bow, 35" is the fan
end and 35 is the cam point. Picker 37 picks to the height of needle 38;
picker 39 picks to the height of needle 40; picker 41 picks to the height of
needle 42 and picker 43 picks to the height of needle 44. These forms of pickers
are used in the cone shaped designer where they are actuated by cams or in the
hoop designer where the revolving picker device before-referred to takes the place
of a cam, the result being the same in either case.
The compound designer picker 45 shown in Fig. 13, has a broad fan end 35ª and
will consequently pick several neigbouring needles. The compound picker 46
(Fig. 13) has openings in its fan end and consequently will pick a plurality of
alternating needles. Single and compound designer pickers are used together
according to the design required.
Referring to Sheet 8, to make the spring of a needle more flexible, I thin the
tail end and fold the flexible end thus produced onto the needle in the direction
of the hook. To further increase the flexibility I fold the flexible end back and
forth upon itself. In Figs. 8" and 8', the tail is split into two parts 50 and 50ª
to obtain flexibilty. In Figs. 8 and 8, the flexible end is wrapped back and
forth upon itself. In Figs. 8, 8, 8 and 8" the tail is reduced to obtain
flexibility. In Figs. 8 and 8, the spring of the needle begins at 47 and ends
at 48. In Figs. 8 and 8, the spring begins at 49 and ends at 50 and 50ª.
In Figs. 8 and 8, the spring begins at 51 and ends at 52. The tails are
preferably bent to the back of the needle but may be bent to the front of the

page_text: needle. These needles are of standard length having adequate flexibility without
an increase of length.
To prevent the patterning thread slipping forward into the needle hook a flat 53
is formed on top of the hook. The top of the hook is bent flat as seen in Fig. 5,
or turned as usual and the round curve filed away as seen in Fig. 8. This flat
supports the thread as seen in Fig. 5.
To effectually prevent the threads displacing each other as they are fed into
the needle hooks and consequently rolling into one variegated thread as is the case
when hooks of ordinary construction are used, a flat drawing surface 54 is made
in the hook. The hook is bent square as seen in Fig. 5, or turned as usual and
the round curve on the inside of the hook filed away as seen in Fig. 8. The hook
being thus cornered or squared out allows one thread to take one corner and one
thread to take the other corner as seen in Fig. 5.
Referring to Figs. 5 and 8, the loop drawing surface of the needle trick is of
two heights or levels, the tricks being bevelled outwardly and downwardly at one
angle 56 and inwardly and downwardly at another angle 55, an apex or point 56
substantially midway of the two levels being made. A thread drawn on the back
or inward slant or level 55 rearward of the apex draws a loose veneer loop, whilst
a thread drawn on the front and outward slant or level forward of the apex draws
a tight foundation loop, because of the difference in the height and angle of the
two slants (see Fig. 5). Such a tight foundation loop has a tendency to shrink
rearward and be buried by the loose veneer loop as hereinafter described. When
web needles or sinkers are used similar levels are made thereon for this purpose.
Referring to Sheet 5, the latch retainer wheel 57, (Figs. 5 and 5), secured to the
cam ring 71, and latch retainer blade 58 (Fig. 5), secured to the ribber cam
plate 109 (Fig. 4) delays the closing of the needle latches until the threads have
reached the hooks, preventing the loops on the stem of the needle closing the
latches onto and displacing the threads. The wheel 57 acts on the latches of the
cylinder needles whilst the blade 58 acts on the latches of the radial needles.
The cylindrical bed 59 (Fig. 8) has an inner cylindrical web needle bed 62,
and can be used with or without web needles. The web needles work at the side
of the ordinary trick allowing the ordinary trick to be retained and consequently
the web needles may be dispensed with when not required. The web needle 63 is
formed out of steel wire and has its tails 64 turned backward and rearward of the
foot making the web needle flexible. The web needles slide in the tricks 65,
their feet 66 passing through slots 60, and their hooks 67 passing through tricks 61
cut in the upper edge of the cylinder, and down the inside of the needle bed.
The end 64 of the web needle is shaped to conform to the shape of the cylinder
tricks for the purpose mentioned. The web needle depressing cam 68 (Fig. 8")
has pins 69 and 70 (Fig. 8) and is slidable on the draw cam cylinder or ring 71,
from driving stop 72 to driving stop 73 (Fig. 8"). The web needle receding
cam 74 and web needle elevating cam 75 are of the dual type for right and left
acting and are vertically slidable in the slot 76 of the depressing cam. The web
needle has a compound horizontal and vertical action whereby the hook describes
a right angle effectually holding the rib as well as the plain loops down. In
operation, (in Fig. 8, the cam ring or cylinder 71 is supposed to be rotating in
the direction indicated by the arrow, and the stop 72 engaging and driving the
pin 70,) when the needles are about to draw their loops the web needles are
operated upon by the cams in a manner as first to elevate their hooks, the central
elevating cam 75 lifting the web needles; secondly, to advance the hooks, the
compressed tail 64 shooting them outward and shooting their feet into the open-
ing 77, (meanwhile the needles draw their loops on the bevelled tricks of the needle
bed 59); thirdly, to recede the hooks the dual receding cam 74 forcing them
backward and compressing the tail; fourthly, to depress the hooks, the dual
depressing cam 68 forcing them downward. The knitted loops are thus drawn
first inwardly and then downwardly. For making some classes of fabric, the
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page_text: web needles are rendered inactive in their inner or drawn position. To do this
the wheel 78 (Fig. 8) is partly turned until the springs 79 and 80 force the
plunger pins 81 and 82 into two depressions situated one on either side of the
wheel 78 drawing them out of the groove 83 of the receding cam 74. This allows
the side receding cam 74 together with the elevating cam 75 to drop out of action.
To make the web needles active again the wheel 78 is partly turned until two
elevations 84 corresponding to the two depressions, force the plungers into the
groove 83 again lifting the receding cam 74 and elevating cam 75 into action.
When weights are used, the web needles may be withdrawn from the cylinder
which can be used without web needles as aforesaid. The hooked web needle
foot 85 (shewn in Fig. 8°), is first bent at right angles to the shank then bent
parallel with the shank. The cams are made to correspond to the hooked foot to
enable them to draw the web needle out, the spring of the tail being found
insufficient when knitting heavy yarns.
The gate part 86 of the needle ring opens on hinge 86%, (sec dotted lines 87)
Fig. 8, and when open the inclined stop 72 serves to hold the cam part of the
ring close to the needle bed. The clasp spring 88 holds the parts 71 and 86 of the
ring closed.
The stitch or draw cam 89, (see Sheet 8) has a stalk 90 and is adjustably attached
to the cam plate or ring 71. The stalk 90 slides in the barrel 91 of the winged
cam 92 which is also adjustably attached to the cam plate or ring 71. The right
and left wings or inclines of the cam 92 are provided to receive the draw cam 90,
and to guide the needles on to it. The said winged cam can be adjusted from
position to position relative to the needles to guide the needles down from any
height. The draw cam 89 and winged cam 92 are transplacable from side to side
of the thrust cam 103 as hereinafter mentioned.
Referring to Fig. 1, the catch wheel 94 is mounted horizontally in cam ring 71
and has a crown cam 93 which serves to rock the lever 95, and depress the draw
cam 89 against the counter-action of the spring 96. In order to tension the adjust-
ing screw 99, a spring 97 and plunger 98 are provided. The pressure of the
spring prevents the screw 99 turning itself. To adjust the draw cam 89 and
thereby alter the length of loop drawn the catch wheel 94 is turned by, hand or
catch lever 100 (Fig. 3) is thrown by a lug on the chain into line with the teeth of
and racks the catch wheel 94 one tooth. The lever 100ª acts in a similar manner
engages
on catch wheel 149. Catch wheel 149 bears a crown cam 148 which
lever 145 which in turn engages the cam 144. The crown cam serves to depress
the cam 144 into action with the needle feet against the action of spring 146.
The spring 146* serves to elevate the cam 144 out of engagement with the needle
feet, when the depressions in the crown cam register with the lever 145. The
cam 144 serves to guide the picked needles down the draw or stitch cams 92
and 89, and is withdrawn as aforesaid to allow the picked needles to pass over
the draw or stitch cams 92 and 89 when making a heel or toe pouch. The levers 100
and 100 are pivoted on pin 306 and are cramped out at 100b in order to miss
the hoop designer 6 when passing. Lever 100 is provided with a foot 100° and
when a suitable lug, provided on chain 290, engages the foot 100° the lever 100
is thrown into engagement with a tooth 94° of the rack wheel 94 and racks the
wheel the distance of one tooth. The lever 100 is also provided with a spring 100d
and plunger 100° and the pin 306 is provided with a flat 100. When the lug on
the chain has passed the foot 100° the pressure of spring 100d withdraws the
lever 100 out of engagement with the rack wheel 94, and the lever 100 takes up
the position shewn in Fig. 3. Lever 100° is similarly provided and is actuated in
a similar manner. The framework 305b which supports the gear is screwed on to
the bed 1048.
Referring to Sheet 8, the incline 101 of the stop 73 engages the roller 74, and
carries the draw cam 89 and ring 71 in one direction (see Fig. 1) and a similar
incline on an opposite stop 72, acts similarly in the opposite direction of travel.

page_text: The stops 72 and 73 are on the thrust cam plate or ring 104, and limit the amount
of independent circumferential movement of the draw cam 89 in relation to the
thrust cam 103, which is carried by the plate or ring 104.
In order that the cylinder needles shall always be drawn on one diagonal line
5 and consequently the correct timing of the draw of the cylindrical and radial
needles maintained after the draw cam has been adjusted to vary the length of
loop drawn, the inclines 101 of the stops 72 and 73 are identical or of equal degree
with the inclines of the draw cam 89.
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Referring to Fig. 8, to allow a cylinder needle to be thrust forward by its tail,
the tail end is turned up towards the hook and squared or flattened at the bend
forming a cam flat 102. This cam flat is at right angles to the needle upon which
the thrust cam acts.
Two cam plates or carriers are employed, one part to carry the thrust cam and
needle finger, and one part to carry the draw cam as before indicated. The thrust
cam part of this dual cam-carrier has gear teeth 104" to mesh with the wheel 305
(Fig. 9).
cam main-
In
Referring to Fig. 1, the cylindrical thrust or throw cam 103 is right and left
acting and is carried by cam plate or ring 104, the draw cam or stitch cam 89 is
carried by cam plate or ring 71, and being on different lines of travel, the said
draw and thrust cams can pass each other, the draw cam being allowed circum-
ferential play between stop 72 and stop 73. When the machine is reversed, the
cams are transplaced from side to side, whereby the thrust
tains the leading position and the draw can maintains the rear position
and trails behind the thrust cam in either direction of knitting.
Fig. 5, the draw cam is shewn transplaced from the right side (full lines) to the
left side (dotted lines) of the thrust cam 103, the arrows indicating the direction
of travel. The thrust cam engages the tails of the needles in advance of the draw
cam whilst the draw cam engages the feet of the needles in the rear of the thrust
cam; by this method of mounting the draw and thrust cams on separate or inde-
pendent cam plates or carriers, the second thrust cam heretofore used is dispensed
with as unnecessary. The transplacable thrust cam 105 and the draw cam 106
of the radial needle bed are made to correspond and act similarly, except that the
thrust
cam as well as the draw cam acts on the foot of the needles and travels
in the same plane, whilst in the case of the cylindrical transplacable cams just
referred to, the thrust and draw cams travel in different planes. Referring to
Sheets 2, 4 and 14, the cam plate 107 is a disc mounted free upon the tube 185,
and has a radial slot 108", and is driven by the driving pin 108.
plate 107 carries the slidable thrust or throw cam 105 in the slot 108". The
stitch or draw cam 106 is secured to a similar disc-shaped cam plate 109, and is
driven in correct relation with the cam plate 107 by the eccentric lever 110 in the
heart-shaped slot 112 (see Fig. 2).
The cam
The cam plates are mounted to have a limited circumferential movement inde-
pendently of each other when the machine is reversed. The eccentric lever is
pivoted on pin 111 which in turn is secured to the thrust cam 105. The slot 113
allows the pin 108 to have engagement with the cam plate 107, and the eccentric
lever 110 passes from side to side of the heart-shaped slot and limits the amount
of independent movement of the plate 109 and its draw cam 106 in relation to the
plate 107 and its thrust cam 105, and drives the plate 109 in keeping with the
plate 107. When reversing knitting the eccentric 110 slides in the heart-shaped
slot 112, receding the thrust cam from knitting position to allow it to pass
the draw cam, and advancing the thrust cam into knitting position again when it has
reached the other side of the draw cam, the eccentric lever 110 having at this stage
reached the opposite end of the heart-shaped slot. The thrust cams 103 and 105
maintain one radial line and the stitch or draw cams 89 and 100 maintain another
radial line. As is well known welts are made by rendering the thrust cam of 'the
ribber bed inactive for a few courses of knitting. To make a welt in my machine

page_text: the eccentric lever 110 is turned half round which draws the thrust cam 105 inward
out of engagement with the needles. Automatic needle picking cams generally
designated needle fingers are carried inseparably with the thrust cams, one to
each thrust cam as is well known. In this method of dual cam carriers
and transplacable cams, the needle finger must be transplacable with
thrust camı and
the thrust cam, therefore, I adapt the needle finger,
draw cam as shewn on Sheet 15. The draw cam 89 is mounted independently of
ring 71 on cam plate or ring 116, whilst the cam plate or ring 117 having
teeth 104" as usual, carries the thrust cam 103 and needle finger 118, consequently
the needle finger bears a circumferentially moveable or transplacable relation to
the draw cam, and can pass and repass the draw cam and engage the needles in
either direction of knitting in advance of the draw cam. Therefor, the needle
finger is rendered universal in its action upon the needles, sliding a needle in
either direction of its length. It first operates on either side of the knitting group
to disengage a needle from the cams, then on either side of the non-knitting group
to re-engage a needle with the cams; respectively performing the combined
functions of needle elevator and depressor, successively dis-engaging and re-
engaging the needles as to make a heel or toe pouch. In mounting the needle-
finger, an arm 119 supported by the rib arm pillar carries a rotatable spindle 121
having a joint pin 122 eccentric thereto. Rocking upon the joint pin 122 is a
bar or member 123 held in the vertical position (Fig. 15°) by spring 124 and
plunger 125 pressed on flat 126 of joint pin 122. This vertical rocking bar 123
carries a horizontal rocking bar 130 horizontally; bar 123 acting as a joint pin
for bar 130, the two bars being at right angles to each other. Bar 130 has a needle
entry 140 and is held in one of two positions by the ball 131 and spring 132
entering hole 133 or hole 134 of bar 123. The spindle 121 is adjustable to two
positions by a handle 135, (or a wheel may be provided on the spindle 121 in place
of the handle), and is held in either position by the spring 137, plunger 137 and
ball 136, the ball 136 entering hole 138 or hole 139 and securing the spindle 121.
The complete needle finger is held yieldingly in operative position by the pressure
of the joint springs 137, 124 and 132 as aforesaid.
The plunger pin 142 in the ring 71 is pressed out by the spring 142" and by
engagement with the spur 142b serves to oscillate and lift the needle finger and
allow it to be transplaced from one side to the other of the draw cam 89, when the
direction of knitting is reversed. A similar plunger pin and spring (not shewn)
is provided in a corresponding position on the opposite side of the draw cam
plate 71. In machines where the draw cam is thin enough to allow the needle
finger to pass it without being lifted the plunger pins are dispensed with.
On commencing a heel or toe pouch, a group of three-sixths of the needles are
simultaneously elevated as usual, the machine reversed and the relation of the
thrust cam, draw cam and needle finger being as seen in Fig. 15 and 15. The
operation of the needle finger is as follows:--the end needle of the knitting group
having entered the entry 140 and collided with the bar 130, rocks the joint
member 123 to the stop screw 141. Spring 124 being weaker than spring 132
allows member 123 to rock before member 130 as seen in Fig. 15. When in this
position the joint member 130 forthwith rocks on joint member 123, lifting the
needle to a level above the draw cam 89 and winged cam 92 and springing away
from the needles. At this stage the ball 131 will be in hole 134 and the position
of the bar 130 on the bar 123 will be reversed the needle finger then takes an
upright position seen in Fig. 15° ready to collide with a needle in the opposite
direction. Having traversed across the knitting group of needles, the machine is
then reversed and the needle finger collides with a needle at the opposite end of
the group of knitting needles; the finger then rocks into position shewn in dotted
lines Fig. 15 and a needle is lifted in the manner indicated. The needles are
thus disengaged, one in the right alternating with one in the left direction of
travel, until one-sixth of the needles only are knitting. The spindle 121 is then
turned half round its centre 143 bringing the needle finger into position shewn in

page_text: Fig. 15. The needle finger collides with the end needle of the suspended or non-
knitting group of needles, rocking the finger to position shewn in dotted lines.
The joint member 130 forthwith rocks on joint member 123 carrying the needle
below the draw cam 89 and winged cam 92 and springs away from the needles.
At this stage the ball 181 will be in hole 133 and the position of the bar 130 on
the bar 123 will be reversed and the bar 123 will take an upright position by the
action of spring 124 and plunger 125 on the flat 126 of the screw 122. The
needle finger is then in position to collide with a needle in the opposite direction.
Having traversed across the knitting group of needles the machine is then reversed
and the needle finger then collides with the end needle at the opposite end of the
group which is depressed in like manner. This operation continues until there are
three-sixths of the needles knitting. The elevated three-sixths of the needles are
then depressed and the pouch is completed. To start another pouch the spindle is
turned half round to the first position, with the needle finger below its own centre
of motion 122 (see Fig. 15). When ordinary needle depressing devices are
employed to depress the needles the needle finger maintains the first position
(Fig. 15) as it is not then necessary to turn it over for the purpose of depressing
the needles.
The driving pin 108 has a plunger 114 and spring 115 (Fig. 1") to support it
when lifted above and out of engagement with the cam plates 107 and 109.
Referring to Sheets 1, 5 and 7, the needles that are elevated by the designer are
drawn down again by the guide cam 144 which slides in the cam ring 71 and is
connected by lever 145 to the cam 146 of the catch wheel 94. Cam 146 depresses
the cam 144 against the pressure of spring 146* into action with the needles (Fig. 5)
guiding or conducting the needles onto the knitting cams when the designer is
disengaged as in making a heel or toe pouch, the guide cam is withdrawn into the
ring 71 out of engagement with the needles by the action of spring 146* on
lever 145 as aforesaid.
Referring to Sheet 7, the feet of the needles are squared or flattened by bending
or filing and a series of needles are used each series having a different length of
foot to the other series and compound split cams or adjustable cast-off cams 147
and 151 are used. The adjustable cast-off cam 147 is situated midway of the
draw cam wing 133 and the needle bed, up to which it is faced. It has a hollow
stalk 152 and is slidable in a hole 152 of the cam ring 71, and is depressed by the
action of cam 148 on the catch wheel 149 (see Sheet 1) through lever 150 interven-
ing which is connected at one end to the cam 148 and at the other end to the
pin 147 and elevated by the spring 152**. Levers 95, 145 and 150 are mounted
on pin 150 as seen in Figs. 1, 2 and 8. The adjustable cast-off cam 151 has a
solid stalk and is slidable in the hollow stalk 152. The spring 153 keeps the
cam 151 in the depressed position, and its action is limited by the pin 154 in the
slot 155. In Fig. 7 both cams are depressed level with the split end 133 of the
wing cam 92 and in operation all the short, medium and long-footed needles take
the normal line of travel and knit loops. When the cast-off cam 147 only is
elevated all the short-footed needles draw down later than usual, the time of their
draw being later, the thread gets under their latches, consequently the thread
misses the hook and the old loop is cast off, causing these needles to cease knitting.
When both cast-off cams are elevated to position shewn in Fig. 7", all the medium-
footed together with the short-footed needles are delayed in their draw and cast-off
The needles that have cast-
their loops and cease knitting in a similar manner.
off their loops and discontinued knitting continue to engage with the cams, it being
unnecessary to withdraw them from action. The long-footed needles descend
down split wing 133 of the winged cam 92 and do not cast-off their loops. The
series of short, medium and long-footed needles 158, 159 and 160 (Fig. 7) are
arranged in the needle bed alternately to suit the rib pattern of fabric to be made.
When a fabric is to be made in which no loops have to be cast off, only one length
of needle foot is necessary and ordinary footed needles may be employed, as seen
in other figs.

page_text: The brush 163 (Fig. 8) comprises a strand of twisted wire between which bristles
are secured, the strand being placed in a groove of the cylinder in a manner that
the bristles of the brush_cross the sliding line of the cylinder needles and open
their latches as the needles rise. The bristles of the brush 162 (Fig. 6) which is
of similar construction to brush 163 cross the line of and open the latches of the
radial needles as they are thrust out and also prevent the needle latches closing
prematurely and causing dropped stitches. The brush is adjustably secured to the
thread guide bar 172 by the plate 172" and screw 172b. The brushes 162 and 163
are made by laying bristles between two wires and twisting the wires upon each
other securing the bristles as shewn at 163 (Fig. 8°).
Referring to Fig. 6, the bracket 171 is secured to the pillar 167 (see Fig. 2) and
carries the adjustable guide bar 172. The guide is mounted in a radial line with
the machine and carries the hood 173 and take-up wire 174 and has forward feed
eye 176 and rearward feed eye 175. Fecd eye 176 is adjacent to the needles and
feeds its thread radially into the back of the needle hooks and the thread of feed
eye 175 is drawn vertically by the latches into the fore part of the needle hooks.
The hood is positioned rearward of the feed eyes. The take-up wire 174 is adjust-
ably secured by bracket 174 to the bar 172 and positioned to draw the thread from
between the feed eyes and hood. With the take-up thus acting so close to the
needles it does its work more effectually.
The loops of the cylinder needles are cast-off by reason of the needles being
drawn later and the thread getting under the latches as aforesaid. In the case of
the ribber needles the loops are cast-off by reason of the needles drawing in pre-
maturely or earlier than the normal time of the draw.
Referring to Sheets 1, 2 and 4b the radial cast-off cam 177 (Fig. 2) is held in the
slot 178 by the pin 179 and is adjustable in this slot, the spring 180 holding it in
its inoperative position, whilst the pin 164d serves to hold it in engagement with the
needles. This cast-off cam is situated midway between the thrust cam 105 and
the draw cam 106 and is approximately the depth of the draw cam 106, a slot
being made in the draw cam to admit the cast-off cam. The lever 164 (see Sheet 1)
is pivoted by screw 164b to the ribber arm 164 and engages with pin 164° on the
bar 164, which is secured to the adjustable cast-off cam 177 (see Fig. 2). When
the plunger 192 is elevated to its highest position by cam 264 on catch wheel 281
it engages the adjustable spur 164 (see Fig. 1), tilting the lever 164 sliding the
cast-off cam 177 into action with the needle feet against the pressure of spring 180.
When it is necessary to cast-off loops or to resume knitting, the catch wheel 281
is put in motion by a suitable lug on the chain coming up to and rocking lever 288
into engagement with the rack wheel 281.
When necessary to cast-off ribber loops
the cast-off cam 177 is put in action and the needles that pass down the cast-off
cam draw in advance of and earlier than the usual time of draw and cast the
loops and suspend knitting. Assuming that transfer needles were used and the
needles were lifted or tilted into engagement with transfer cam 116 (Fig. 14^)
preparatory to casting-off their loops (referred to later) the loops would be trans-
ferred to the opposite set of needles before being cast-off. And when long and
short footed needles are used the long footed needles only would be constantly
transferring because the cam 116 is positioned as to only engage the feet that are
long enough to reach it when tilted, whilst the short-footed needles miss it. The
early draw cam 117 (Fig. 14) is also fixed in a position as to miss the short-
footed needles and act on long-footed needles, and it operates as to cast-off the
loops of those long-footed needles only that have engaged with the transfer cam 116,
whilst cast-off cam 177 will engage with all the needles (see Fig. 2).
Radially disposed knitting needles have a tendency to tilt. The base of the
needle trick is cut at an angle 181 to the cam line or plate in order to make
the tilt positive. Referring to Sheet 4, different degrees of tilt are obtained by the
series of needles shown in Fig. 4°. Each series tilt at different angles to the cam
line or plate, the length and width of the tails limiting the amount of tilt. The

page_text: short narrow-tailed needles 182 tilt most, the needles 183 having the medium
length and width of tail tilt less and the needles 184 having the longest and
broadest tails tilt least. When a radial needle takes both threads it makes a rib
line in the front face of the fabric, when, however, a radial needle takes only the
top thread it does not make a rib line as referred to later. By the adjustment of
the lower of the two threads used, certain of the rib needles miss it and others take
it, and the pattern of rib made corresponds to the arrangement of the small,
medium and large-tailed needles in the radial bed and the position of the threads
in relation to the said needles. Furthermore the tilt of the needles is controlled
and the pattern altered by the tilting or holder cams described later. As pointed
out, the thread can be adjusted to the tilting needles, and when the lower thread
is fed in under all the ribbers, no ribbers knit loops from it; when
fed in above the small-tailed needles the small-tailed needles knit loops from
it: when fed in above all ribbers all the ribber needles knit loops
from it. Those needles that knit loops from the lower together with
the upper thread form a rib line in the forward face of the fabric
and those needles that only knit the top thread and do not knit the lower thread
do not make a rib line in the forward face of the fabric as aforesaid.
To facilitate the tilt of the needles in order to control the tilt of the hook end of
the needle and consequently change the pattern of rib as indicated, or in order to
throw the feet of the needles in and out of engagement with cams 116 and 117
to transfer and cast-off loops, (as is necessary to change the pattern of rib when only
one thread is used), the fore portion of the base of the needle trick is cut at an
angle 181 and 181 to the cam plate making apex 181b. It will be noticed that
the face line of the needle bed is parallel with the cam plate and as a result the
needle trick is of two depths forming a rise or apex at 181b Fig. 4 (and 181*
Fig. 14) at which point the trick is shallowest, an upon which the needle rocks
or tilts in its sliding movement. regulate and control the tilting of the needles
by the use of a series of holder or tilting cams. Referring to Sheet 4, the tilting
cams are arranged at right angles to the cam plate and needles, and are set equi-
distant on a tube 185 which is mounted free on ribber spindle 186. The tube has
four fingers 187, 188, 189 and 190 projecting therefrom, each in a different radial line
and on a different level to the others. The tilting cams are carried round by the
stop arm 191 on the plunger 192. The plunger 192 slides in rib arm pillar 167,
and has a roller 192" which rides on the crown cam of the rack wheel 281. Rack
wheel 281 is put in motion by rack lever 288 in the manner aforesaid, in reference
to the adjustable cast-off cam. The plunger 192 engages with one or other of
the fingers according to its height. One or other of the tilting cams is held in a
radial position with the needle cams, according to the finger that is in engagement
with the arm 191.
Needle holders or detachable needle tail pieces serve to hold the needles securely
in their tricks, in a manner as not to interfere with the sliding movement of the
needles.
Fig. 4 is a diagram of the holders, cams and needles. Tilting cam 193 acts on
the needle holders 194, and prevents all the small-tailed needles tilting on
apex 181b whilst passing under the said tilting cam. Tilting cam 195 acts on the
needle holders 196 and prevents all the medium-tailed needles tilting whilst pass-
ing under the tilting cam, and tilting cam 197 acts on needle holders 198 and
Needle holders 199 and their
prevents all the large-tailed needles tilting.
needles 200 are not influenced by any of the tilting cams and are therefore always
tilting. In Fig. 4, the needles are tilted or not tilted corresponding to the
As to which needles shall tilt when on the needle
position of the tilting cams.
cams, depends upon which tilting cam is positioned in a radial line with the needle
All the needle holders are made out of steel wire. The needle holder 199
is in the form of a sheath into which the tail of the needle 200 slides, and has a
spring pressure on the needle tail. The needle holder 198 is a bar that slides in
cams.

page_text: the opening 198" formed by the two parallel bars of the needle. The needle
holder 196 is bent at right angles and rocks in the groove 201 of the needle bed,
and the needle slides underneath the holder. The fore part 196* of the holder is
thinned to allow of the passage of the needle, the needle foot being thinned at 196b
to admit the holder. Holder 194 is bent as shewn and fulcrummed in groove 203
of the needle bed, and has the fore end 194" thinned, the needle foot being also
thinned at 194b to admit the holder. The needle and holder telescope into each
other or collapse in the action of knitting, making a telescopic or extensible and
contractable needle. When only one thread is used it is necessary to transfer the
loop in order to make a change in the rib pattern. Referring to Sheet 14, when
the needle holders and tilting cams and tilting dial are applied to a machine in
which right and left transfer needles are used, the transferring side bend 205 of
the needle 204 is bent at 205 downward and sideways from the foot in the direction
of the hook. The tail 206 is rendered flexible by thinning sideways and folded
back underneath the main stem and across the side bend 205, to support the
knitting part of the needle forward of the side bend and needle foot, forming an
opening 204 for the holder or tail piece to slide in. The flexible tail yields to the
withdrawal of a loop from out of the bend when transferring. I may here say
that, in order to accommodate the side bend of a transfer needle, the dial (see
Figs. 14, 14 and 14° is built up of the upper part or dial 207 and the lower part
or dial 208, making a compound needle bed. The base of the bed is inclined or at
an angle to the cam line at 181", making apex 181°. The upper dial 207 has an
uncut ring 209 forming a bridge from trick to trick under which the holders and
needles slide. The tricks of the upper dial are narrower in the upper part than
the lower part, being the gauge of the needles at 210, and wide enough at the
bottom of the trick 211 for the bow of the needle to slide in. The lower dial 208
has tricks 212 corresponding with and fitting the bars 213 of the upper dial. The
two are secured together by screws or solder making one complete or compound dial.
Referring to Sheet 14, the tilting cam 214 will tilt the long footed needles 214°
on apex 181°, and the tilting cam 215 will tilt the medium footed needles 215
to a level with the fixed transfer cam 116 and the cast-off draw cam 117, causing
them to pass up the transfer cam 116 and transfer their loops to the cylinder
needles as shewn in Fig. 14, and pass down the early draw or cast-off cam and
cast-off their transferred loops and discontinue knitting. All needles that traverse
the cast-off draw cam 117 draw in earlier, their hooks missing the thread causing
them to cast-off their loops as indicated. The short-footed needles 218 are not
provided with a transfer bend and are not tilted, their feet always taking the
knitting line, they not being required to transfer their loops. It may here be said,
that in Fig. 4, the apex or point upon which the needle is tilted or rocked is
at 181b, whilst in Fig. 14, the point or apex of the base of the needle trick is
formed at 181° and both apexes may be formed in the same dial.
For alternately throwing a thread into the needles and cutting it off (see Sheet 6),
an oscillating thread bar, arm or lever 219 is pivoted on pin. 220. The lever has
a feed eye 219 wherethrough yarns may pass at predetermined intervals by reason of
it oscillating on its pivot through the action imparted from a revoluble pattern surface
or cam. The lever is receded or held rearward of the needle hooks (see dotted
lines) by spring 221 and plunger 222 pressing on flat 223, and advanced or thrown
Wheel 226 is mounted
forward of the needle hooks (full lines) by the cam 224.
on screw 225, geared to the toothed wheel 227 on the tube 228 and engages a
cam 224 which is locked to the wheel by the spring bolt 229. The thread cutting
and trapping scissors are comprised of a fixed blade 230 having a trapping face and
cutting edge, and a blade 231 also having a trapping face and cutting edge, pivoted
on screw 232. The blade 231 is held in its closed position (full lines) holding the
cut-off thread 232 by the pressure of the spring. 233 and plunger 234, which acts
on a flat 232 cut in the side of the screw 232. The thread is thus held until either
cam 235 or cam 236 comes round and depresses the foot 231* when the cam 235
or 236 opens the blade and releases the thread. The lever 219 throws the released

page_text: thread from the rear to the front of the needle hooks, which catch it up and knit
it in. The cam plate 224 is mounted free upon the pin 225, and the pin 229" by
the pressure of spring 229b enters the hole 229 and carries it round. To suspend
the action of the rocking lever the pin is lifted by handle 229 and turned half
round until the spur 229d ledges on the top of the boss 229°. The cam 224 is
thereupon released from the wheel 226 and the lever ceases to rock.
For striping purposes, an extra lever 237 similar in construction to lever 219.
is mounted upon the barrel. When used alone one lever is suitable for throwing
in an auxiliary thread for splicing or reinforcing purposes. In the drawing two
levers are shewn, as employed for making the top part of the stocking of one
thread and the bottom part of another thread, for which purpose the cam plates 224
(see Fig. 6") and 224ª (see Fig. 6) are secured together, but when only one lever
is employed for splicing half found the foot, the cam plate 224" is dispensed with
and the cam 236 is formed or attached on the underside of the cam 224, (see
Fig. 6). In using the two levers and threads, one lever recedes rearward of the
needles at the time the other lever advances forward of the needles, whereby the
threads exchange positions simultaneously. The scissors open and close every time
the threads exchange positions, releasing one and trapping the other thread
simultaneously.
Referring to Fig. 1, for vertically adjusting the radial dial, a collar 138 having
a series of serrations 140° arranged in a diagonal line to its central hole is threaded
on the base 165 of the rib arm 164 and supports the ribber spindle 186. The
collar is adjustable on a pin 139" in the boss of the ribber arm and the vertical
position of the spindle corresponds to the serration that is put on the pin.
Referring to Sheet 8, the compound dial posts 241 and 242 Fig. 8 are pivoted
to each other by the pivot pin 243 and regulated by a screw 244. The lug 244"
of the dial enters between the dial posts, the dial being held adjustably stationary
and free from movement in either direction.
To prevent the fabric rising, a prong or spur 245 consisting of a steel plate
brought to a point is securely driven into a sawgate in the dial lug 244. This
prong engages with and holds the fabric down after it has been depressed by the
prongs next referred to, preventing the fabric rucking up around the dial posts.
The web needles adjacent to the dial post (see Fig. 8) are provided with spurs or
prongs 64", these prongs penetrate the fabric and pull it down by the dial posts,
whilst the adjoining dial prong 245 holds the fabric down as aforesaid.
Referring to Fig. 13; in order that the yarn cross may be heightened from a
low cross to a tall cross, a ring 246 having a hole 246, and a ring 249 having a
cross piece 247 and bracket 248 into which the ring 246 fits, is put upon the yarn
post 246 and secured by the set screw 250. Thread eyelets or holes are provided
in the rings. The cross is affixed in a low position (full lines) and a high position
(dotted lines).
Referring to Fig. 13, the combined bobbin or cop support and thread conductor
therein shewn is comprised of a hollow bobbin wire or tube 251, having a disc 252,
a hole 253 and an outlet hole 253. The yarn thread is conducted from the bobbin
through the centre of the bobbin as seen.
Each
Referring to Sheet 5, the rocking guide bars 254 and 255 are provided with
thread eyes wherethrough yarn may pass and are pivoted on bracket 89%, and are.
actuated by the cammed rack or catch wheels 282 and 283. The rack wheels are
similar. Each has teeth 2821 (see Fig. 1) and incisions 282b are made in its
periphery to form a cammed surface with which the feet 282° engage.
thread guide bar is provided with a spring 2824, bolt 282° pressing on
flat 282 of the pin 282 which serves to rock and hold the guide one way whilst
the cammed rack wheel serves to rock the guide the other way. The position of
the feed of the thread may be adjusted from point to point according to the shape
of the cammed surface on the rack wheel. The rack wheels may be moved round
by hand or by the chain as hereinafter set forth.

page_text: Referring to Fig. 4, the rib arm 164 is bored at 165 to receive the rib spindle
and at 166 to receive the pillar 167, the two holes being parallel. The rib arm is
detachably secured to the pillar in a radial line by the wing screw 168 and carries
the radial needle bed. The pillar 167 is turned on the flanged face 169 and
adjustably screwed to the bed flange 170 of the rotatable cam plate or ring 104.
By this construction the pillar is positioned exactly parallel and the arms at right
angles to the vertical axis of the machine and a perfect adjustment of the radial
bed to the cylindrical bed is obtained.
In order to alternately reciprocate and rotate the machine from a direct rotary
motion, I employ a constantly rotating driving crank pin on the driving shaft
and a driven crank pin upon the gear wheel of the machine or connected to the
machine, and couple them together by a connecting link or links, in a manner that
the driven crank pin rotates in unison with the driving crank pin or reciprocates,
whereby the machine has a rotary motion or a reciprocating motion communicated
to it from the rotary crank pin through the connecting links whilst the driving
crank pin still rotates. Auxiliary connecting links and means are provided to
avoid dead centres. Referring to Sheet 9, 301 is the driving crank pin on disc
arm 311 secured to the shaft 295. I may here say that the wheels 303 and 304"
are used in order to gear up the machine driving wheel 305 to rotate faster than
the driving crank 301. 302 is the driven crank pin on disc arm 302", secured
to the wheel 303 on pin 302b. The wheel 304", and wheel 305 to which it is
attached are mounted free upon the shaft 295. 302° is the connecting link that
couples the driving and driven crank pins, and communicates motion from the
driving crank pin 301 through the driven crank pin 302 and wheel 303, 304*
and 305 to the machine. The arrow on the disc 311 indicates the direction of
travel of the crank pin 301. In a light-running machine working fine yarns the
swing of the machine is sufficient to over-get dead centres and the machine will
rotate and reciprocate, but in the case of a heavy running machine working coarse
yarns this compound rotary and reciprocatory link gear will lock at the dead
centres, and, in order to over-get dead centres, I use auxiliary links, constructed
and arranged in different ways to suit different machines. In Figs. 9 and 9^,
the extra crank pin 302d on disc 302 mounted free on pin 302 is employed. The
crank pin 302d is linked to the driving crank pin 301 by the auxiliary link 302
and to the driven crank pin 302 by the auxiliary compound links 312 and 313.
The link is jointed on pin 302 in a manner that it can be thrown into a knee
joint (see dotted lines Fig. 94) when the rotary motion of the crank pin 301 is
converted into a reciprocatory motion of crank pin 302 (referred to later). The
pin 302 holds the compound links 312 and 313 square when open (see full lines
Fig. 9), and when thus positioned the three crank pins, and consequently the
machine, rotate in unison with the driving shaft 295, the crank pins helping each
other over the dead centres owing to the unity of action.
When the driving crank pin 301 is shifted nearer to the shaft 295 and describes
a shorter throw, and the compound links 312 and 313 are thrown into a knee
joint (dotted lines) by the connecting means (referred to later), the driven crank
pin 302, and consequently the machine reciprocates, because the unity of action is
broken, and the crank pin 302 and 303d cannot get over dead centres, owing to
the throw of the driving crank pin 301 being unequal to the throw of the other
crank pins.
Levers and locking devices are employed at the back of the disc arm 311, to
shift the driving crank pin 301 from the short throw to the long throw position,
and vice versa. Referring to Sheet 10, Figs. 10 and 10" show the crank pin 301
held by lock 314 in the short throw position and Figs. 10 and 10° in the full throw
position. It must be understood that the disc arm is constantly rotating. The
spur 309b engages the spur 309° and lever 309d engages arm 309°, connected to the
lock 314 which is pivoted on the disc by screw 314". To change the positions from
Fig. 10 to Fig. 10, the lever 309 strikes a controlling device (referred to later)

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causing it to move on its pivot 309, and communicates a similar movement to
lock 314 through the lever 309d and arm 309, withdrawing the lock 314 from the
head 310 of the crank pin lever 310, which, it will be seen, is pivoted on the disc
by screw 310b. At this juncture the released crank pin 301 takes the full throw
position (Fig. 10^) by the action of the compound links 312 and 313, falling from
the dotted position to the full line position, the spring 314b thereupon
pulls the levers back into position, the lever 309 having passed the con-
trolling device, and the machine rotates. To change the crank pin 301 back
from position shewn in Fig. 10 to Fig. 10, the controlling device is moved laterally
out of the path of the lever 309 into the path of the crank pin lever 310. When.
the lever 310 strikes the controlling device it moves on its pivot forcing the
lock 314 aside, pushing the crank pin inward, the lock closing up by the action
of spring 314b, and taking up position shewn in Fig. 10. At this juncture the
compound link is thrown from the full lined position to dotted lined position by
controlling devices (referred to later), and the machine reciprocates, whilst the
driving pin 301 still rotates. The controlling devices for the levers 310 and 309
are shewn on Sheets 3 and 9. The lever shifter 304 is secured to the arm or
bracket 304. The arm 304" is secured to the pin 304b, mounted in a bearing 305"
on the framing 305b, and is capable of a rocking movement. A pin 307 is
screwed into the shaft or pin 304b through a diagonal slot 308 (Fig. 3).
spring 313 (Fig. 9*) holds the crank shifter in the upper position (full line), and
the pin 307 in the position in the slot 308 (as seen in Fig. 3^), the shifter then
being in the path of the lever 309 and the crank pin in the position shewn in
Fig. 10. When thus positioned the lever 309 strikes the shifter 304 at every
rotation of the shaft, but does not effect the crank pin 301 unless, at the time of
the striking of lever 309 on the shifter 304, the compound links 312 and 313 are
thrown into the dotted lined position (shewn in Fig. 9^) (referred to later) because
the crank pin 301 cannot be shifted in its throw whilst the compound link remains
open as shewn in full line position; therefore with the shifter 304 in this position
the machine rotates. On the outer end of pin or shaft 304b is an arm 304° carrying
a lug nudge 304d. When a suitable lug comes up on a chain 290, it strikes the
nudge 304 lifting the arm 304° and lowers the shifter 304, and at the same time
the pin 307 sliding down the diagonal slot 308 moves the shifter 304 sideways,
out of the path of lever 309 and into the path of lever 310. At this juncture the
drop catch 306 which is pivoted on pin 306, falls and catches the arm 304°, hold-
ing the shifter 304 in the lower position (dotted lines) against the pressure of
spring 313, with the crank pin 301 in position shewn in Fig. 10; as thus
positioned the machine reciprocates. When a suitable lug comes
up on
chain 290, it lifts the drop catch 306, whereupon the spring 313" pulls the liberated
shifter into full lined position and the machine is rotated again.
a
Referring to Figs. 9 and 9, to reverse the positions of the compound links 312
and 313, a projection or nudge 304' secured to the bracket 304, and a drop
lever 304 pivoted to the framing 305 by pin 304h, and carrying a pin 304, are
employed. When the shifter 304 is put in the dotted position, the nudge 304
strikes one end of the drop lever, lifting the pin 304 into the line of travel of
the tail 312 of the compound link. The tail 312" then engages the pin, and the
compound link is thrown into the dotted position simultaneously with the move-
ment of the driving crank pin 301 from the long throw to the short throw position;
the crank pins 302 and 302°, and consequently the machine, thereupon reciprocate.
When the shifter 304 takes the upper or full line position, the drop lever 3048
falls out of engagement with the tail 312ª, the lever 309 (Fig. 10) strikes the
shifter 304 releasing the crank pin 301 from the lock 314; thereupon the compound
link falls into full line position, the crank pin 301 takes the full throw position
and the machine is rotated. In machines that are not required to be geared up
and wherein the gear wheels 303 and 304 are consequently dispensed with, the
crank pin 302 is rotated constantly and operates as the driving crank whilst the

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crank pin 301 is secured to the machine gear wheel 305 and operates as the driven
crank. As mounted in Sheet 9, the driving shaft 295 cannot be rotated backward,.
and therefore, in machines where it is necessary to have facility for rotating the
shaft backwards to reverse the direction of rotary knitting, I mount the links
as shewn in Sheets 11 and 12, in which the driving shaft can be turned backwards
or forwards and rotary knitting proceeded with in either direction. Referring
to Sheet 11, the driving crank pin 301 and the driven crank pin 302 are mounted
the same as in Fig. 9; but the pin 319 which is fixed to the framing serves as a
fulcrum upon which connecting links 315, 316, 317 and 318 rock or oscillate and
renders the crank pin 302° and its connections (Fig. 94) unnecessary. The links
are pivoted to each other in the form of à rectangular square as shewn.
Figs. 11 and 11, the throw of the driving crank pin 301 and driven crank pin 302
is equal and consequently they rotate in unison with the rotating driving shaft 295,
in which position the machine is rotated. The plunger 320 and spring 321 are
provided in the slot 321" of the link 316 as seen in Fig. 11°, and the pivot pin 321b
of link 317 has freedom of movement against the pressure of the spring 321,
in the slot 321". When the crank pin 301 is moved to short throw position
(Fig. 11 and 11°), the crank pin 302, and consequently the machine, reciprocate,
whilst the crank pin 301 still rotates. To change the crank pin 302 from the
rotary position of Figs. 11 and 11* to the reciprocating position, the driving crank
pin 301 is shortened in its throw in the manner indicated (Sheet 10), and the
spring yields to the action of pin 321 in the slot 321ª as seen in Figs. 11" and 11°,
causing the crank pin 302 to reciprocate. In machines which are geared up by
the employment of a gear wheel having as many again teeth as the cam plate or
ring, the links are adapted as seen in Figs. 12 and 124, in which it will be seen
the fulcrum 319 is fixed in the framing above the shaft 323, and
the driving crank pin is fixed to the rotary shaft 325 at equal distance
from and below the shaft 323, and the driven crank pin 302 is secured to the disc
arm 311, which in turn is secured direct to the gear wheel represented by dotted
lines 323, Fig. 12. The gear wheel 323 is as large again as the gear wheel of the
cam plate with which it gears, and consequently the machine rotates twice to one
rotation of the crank pin 302 and wheel 323. The connecting links 322, 322
and 322, and the compound links 324 and 324* are pivoted together in the form of
a square and rock or oscillate on fulcrum pin 319. It will be noticed that the
leverage obtained from fulcrum 319, to crank pin 302 is half the amount of
leverage obtained to crank pin 301, and in this case, to rotate the crank pins in
unison, the crank pin 302 has half the throw of crank pin 301 to correspond and
balance the leverage. In Fig. 12 the links are positioned to rotate in unison.
To convert them to the position shewn in Fig. 12 in which the links are positioned
for reciprocating, the driven crank pin 302 is shifted to a greater throw (which is
equal to shifting the driving crank pin to a less throw) and the compound links 324
and 324 are formed into a knee joint as shewn. Referring to Figs. 12 and 12*,
in machines where there is not room for the fulcrum pin 319, it is put at an equal
distance from and below the shaft 325 and the connecting links are simply turned
over with exactly the same results.
Referring to Figs. 3 and 9, a chain 290, adapted to receive lugs suitable to
actuate the several connecting parts of the machine as indicated, is mounted on a
chain wheel 289, which has tricks 289d to register with and receive the links of
the chain. The chain wheel 289 is mounted on the shaft of the bearing 291,
which is a part of the framing 305b, and has rack teeth 289b. A check
clawker 289 engages the teeth 289 and prevents backward movement of the
chain wheel. A bell crank 293 is mounted on pin 292; this bell crank has a
roller 292 at one end engaging a cam 294 which is secured to the shaft 295, and a
clawker 293 at the other end in engagement with the teeth of the rack wheel 289*.
To every rotation of the shaft, the cam 294 rocks the bell crank on its pivot
pin 292 and racks the chain wheel round one tooth. By mounting the chain wheel
on the shaft bearing a more compact machine is obtained.

page_text: The lugs are V-shaped as usual, and are screwed to the chain as shewn in
Figs. 4 and 4, in which the lug 289 is adapted to actuate the three rack levers 286,
287 and 288 simultaneously into engagement with the rack wheels 281, 282
and 283 which are consequently racked round a tooth. It is understood that the
levers 100 and 100° are put upon the pin 306* outside the levers 286, 287 and 288,
and that different lugs are positioned on the chain in a manner that one actuates
one lever or connecting device and one another lever or connecting device at the
right time.
The rack wheel 282 has a bolt 285° and a spring 284 to tension its movement
round the pillar 167; and rack wheels 281 and 283 have similar provisions. The
rack wheels 282 and 283 have suitable indents 282" (Figs. 5 and 6), making a
cammed surface of its periphery, upon which the guide bars 254 and 255 are
rocked as before indicated.
Again referring to Figs. 4 and 4", a flat 306' is cut on pin 306* and the rack
levers 286; 287 and 288 are provided with bolts 285 and spring 284. When the
lug 289 passes out of engagement with the levers, the spring 284 presses the
bolt 285 down the flat 306 and draws the levers out of the path of the rack
wheel 283.
Referring to Figs. 9, 9º and 9°, the belt pulley 296 runs free upon the shaft 295
and a driving disc 297 having an eccentric boss 297k is secured to the shaft by
screws 297b. Mounted on the eccentric 297k is an eccentric clutch or disc 297"
which is held on the inside flange 297° of the belt pulley 296 by the pressure of
spring 297 (Fig. 9°). When thus engaged the pulley drives the shaft. The
spring 297d is hooked onto the screw 297 of the driving disc 297 and onto the
lock lever 297, pivoted to the disc by screw 2971. The lock lever 2971 engages a
pin 297 on the eccentric clutch 297, which extends through the slot 297 in the
disc 297, and a lock lever 297 pivoted to the disc by screw 297", engages with lock
lever 297. A hand lever 291° (see Figs. 3 and 9) is secured to a shaft 291b, which
is mounted in a bearing 291° of the framing 305b, this hand lever is provided with
a pin 300 to engage the locks 297 and 297, and a spur 297 to engage a suitable
lug provided on the chain 290. When a lug on the chain passes by the spur 297),
(Fig. 9), the hand lever 291" is lifted until spur 300 enters the path of the lock
lever 297 which strikes the pin 300 moving the lock levers 297 and 297 on their
pivots 2971 and 297" to the position opposite to the one they occupy as seen in
Fig. 9, releasing the eccentric clutch 297, the spring 297d being over a pivot
pin 2971, and consequently holding the eccentric clutch out of engagement with
the flange 297 of the pulley 296, and the machine stops. To start the machine,
the starting lever 291 is depressed, bringing the pin 300 into the path of lock
lever 297, and the handle 297kk is given one turn when lock lever 297 strikes une
pin 300, moving the lock levers on their pivots and spring 297d into the position
seen in Fig. 9, allowing the spring 297d to pull the eccentric clutch onto the
flange 297 of the pulley 296, the clutch gripping the pulley flange causing the
machine to rotate.
Referring to Fig. 1, a series of needles are picked to one level and a series to
another level and so on, all being drawn consecutively and uniformly from the
stitch cams. Those needles of one level take onc thread, those of another level
take another thread, and so on. Those needles which are not picked by the
designer engage the thrust cam 103. A thread may be adjusted as to first feed
one series of needles then another series of needles thereby changing the pattern
of fabric made.
In normal 1/1 ribbed fabric, the cylinder needles do not measure off their loops
upon the tricks of the needle bed, but upon the radial needles as seen in Figs. G
and 6, therefore to obtain 1/1 normal rib fabric in which the loops are com-
pounded of two threads, one a loose veneer loop and one a tight foundation loop,
after the manner of this invention, as seen in Figs. 6 and 6, I make the hook of
the cylinder needles (and the radial needles when required) compound as seen in

page_text: Fig. 6º. As will be seen, the hook is part turned from the stem, then continued
upward and forward and then completely turned making two loop-drawing
surfaces 268 and 269. The two loop-drawing surfaces are situated at different
heights or levels as seen; consequently the thread that is drawn in the rear
hook 268 is longer and fuller than the thread drawn in the forward hook 269.
It is understood that the positions of the hooks may be reversed: -the forward
hook being lower than the rear hook.
The improved fabrics made by this machine refer only to that class in which
the loops are built up or filed consecutively from a plurality of concurrently
knitted threads running transversely of the fabric, and the loops compounded of
two or more coils of thread or thread coils.
The principal improvements in the construction of the fabric, consist of-Firstly,
the thread coils are uniformly arranged one on top of the other, that is, juxta-
posed-one a face or veneer coil and one a back or foundation coil. Secondly, one
coil is made slacker or longer than its companion coil (or coils when three threads
are used) whereby the veneer loop is so much fuller or looser than the
foundation loop, which is consequently buries or conceals from the face view of
the fabric in an effectual manner. Thirdly, single loops or loops of one thread coil
and compound loops or loops compounded of a plurality of thread coils are arranged
to intervene with each other, as to describe designs of single loops in a fabric of
compound loops or vice versa, the designs being of an ornamental character by
reason of the outline of the fabric or the construction of the loops: plain loops
and rib loops intervening; or by reason of the threads employed being of a different
colour or by reason of the threads being fine and coarse, whereby eyelets or holes
are made in the fabric:-fine loops intervening with coarse loops. Fourthly, the
objectional loose transverse back threads coincident to the design in a plain or
single ply fabric (a fabric of a single file of loops) are interlaced or intermeshed
in the back cross-bars of the loops proper, and consequently form weft loops. Or
the objectional loose threads are avoided by making from the patterning or
auxiliary thread an auxiliary back set or secondary file of loops from which it
can cross over to and form veneered design loops in the front or primary file of
loops at any time, the fabric being in substance two ply:
:-a fabric of two similar
files of loops set back to back, that is to say, one thread supplies the front or primary
file of loops only and one thread supplies the back or secondary file
of loops and also the veneer loops of the primary files of loops.
bars of thread join the two plys of fabric together and where the thread crosses
from ply to ply a rib line is made by the said cross-bars in the face of the fabric
opposite to the veneered side. In other words, a loop compounded of two threads,
makes a rib line, whilst a loop of one thread makes a plain loop only, consequently
whilst a design of veneer loops is being made on one side of the fabric, a corre-
sponding design in rib lines is being made on the opposite side of the fabric. In
other words, at the points where one thread supplies one ply and a separate thread
supplies the other ply, the fabric is plain, and at the points where one thread
supplies both plys, ribbed loops are formed as clearly shewn. Therefore, it will
be seen, that by controlling a needle as before indicated to take one or both threads,
it will make a plain loop or rib loop respectively, and as a consequence of the
employment of two threads and making compound loops in this manner, I can
pass from plain fabric to any class of ribbed pattern, and knit a fabric having 1/1
rib pattern, succeeded by 3/1 rib fabric, and followed by 3/1 rib half round and
plain half round, without the employment of two feeders or having to cast-off or
transfer any loops for that purpose. For heavy wear, this class of fabric is
admirably adapted. These fabrics are much improved in elasticity, touch and
appearance to those formerly made. The fabrics are necessarily drawn on an
enlarged scale. It is not possible to demonstrate the difference of size between a
veneer, and a foundation loop in a drawing of the fabric, but Fig. 6 illustrates how
the black thread 72° is drawn longer than the white thread 72', and Fig. 6 shows
how a similar result is obtained.
The cross

page_text: As the threads are positioned in Figs. 6 and 6, the needles are arranged to
make the 1/1 rib fabric shewn in Figs. 6 and 6, the cylinder needles 72° drawing
compound loops from the two threads across the radial needles 72d. The black
thread 72° passes through the radial feed eye 176 and is fed into the rear hook 268,
forming a long veneer coil 271 (Fig. 6"), whilst the white thread 72 passes through
the vertical feed eye 175, and is drawn by the closing needle latches into the
forward hook 269 and makes the short foundation coil 270 shewn in Figs. 6" and 6°.
This 1/1 rib fabric differs from ordinary 1/1 rib fabric inasmuch that one coil is
uniformly veneered or faced by another coil, the later coil being made looser to
insure uniform veneering, and the same result is obtained in plain fabric. As
the guides 254 and 255 are positioned in Fig. 5, the black thread 72° passes at
the back of the series of needles 256 and underneath the latches of the series of
needles 257, (it is understood that the needles are elevated to different heights
by the designers before referred to). This has the effect of interlacing what would
otherwise be a long loose thread between the cross bars 262 in the form of weft
loops 261, (Figs. 5 and 5). The black thread also feeds into the hooks of the
needles 256 forming the veneer coil 259 (Fig. 5). The white thread goes into
all the hooks of the needles and makes the foundation coils 258. In Fig. 5, the
needles are arranged in order to repeat the plain or single ply pattern of fabric
shewn in Figs. 5, 5, and 5°. This fabric is composed of foundation coils 258 of
the white thread and veneer coils 259 of both threads, making compound loops,
and single loops 258" of the white thread and weft loops 261 of the black thread.
The weft loops may be locked in the cross-bars 262 more frequently or less
frequently according to the order of elevation of the needles. By using a third
thread in the feed eye 263ª, the fabric can be made in three threads of yarn with
similar results. The single ply or plain fabric shewn in Figs. 6, and 6%, is of
similar construction, except that it has no weft loops and the foundation coils 264
are of a thinner thread than the vencer loops 265, and consequently the single
coil loops 266 of the thin thread make holes or eyelets in what would otherwise
be a plain fabric. The holes are positioned as to describe a design, therefore, it
will not be necessary to shew how the threads and needles are arranged to make
this fabric.
In Figs. 5, 5 and 5° is shewn a two ply fabric. This fabric is made from two
sets of needles, (called rib and plain needles) as is also the fabric shewn in Figs. 6"
and 6.
It would be ribbed fabric, but for the fact that one ply of
loops are knitted from one thread and the other ply of loops are knitted
from another thread, except where a compound loop is formed and the two plys
join each other, at which point a rib loop is actually made in one side of the
fabric.
In Fig. 5, the threads and needles are positioned to make the fabric shewn in
Figs. 5, 5 and 5°. The series of radial needles 272 are tilted (by the means before
referred to), and receive the white thread 72 and consequently make the white
veneer coils 274 at the rear side of the fabric, and the rib lines 273 on the front
side of the fabric, whilst the series of cylinder needles 276 receive the black
thread 72 and make the black veneer loops 277 at the front side of the fabric, and
the rib lines 278 at the rear side of the fabric. The series of needles 279 are not
elevated high enough to take the black thread and only take the white thread
and make the single coil loops 280, whilst the series of needles 272ª are not tilted
low enough to take the white thread and only take the black thread and make the
single coil loops 275. The rib lines 273 are four needles apart, and make 4/1
pattern of rib whether the threads are both one colour or not. The fabric (Fig. 5³)
is really patterned in rib and at the same time designed in colours on both sides,
and demonstrates to what extent this invention can be carried. It will be seen
that the pattern of the fabric is changed according to the position of the rocking
guides 254 and 255, and according to the order of tilting of the
radial needles, and according to the order of picking of the cylinder needles.

page_text: For instance, where by the suspension of the action of the designer none of the
series of needles 276 are elevated and all the cylinder needles consequently miss
the black thread, the front ply of loops would all be made single coil from the
white thread, the compound loops made on radial needles 272 joining the two plys
together and making 4/1 rib in what would otherwise be a plain faced fabric.
Such fabric can be changed to 1/1, 3/1 or any other pattern of rib by the means
before described. By putting the black thread into the feed eye 263 it would
miss all the cylinder needles and the same results would come about. Then again
when the rocking guide 255 is depressed and feeds the black thread into the hooks
of all the cylinder needles all the loops have veneer coils 277 of the black thread
and rib lines 273, and the rear face would be all ribbed lines 278 and all black
single loops, 275, except for the compound loops made by the white veneer coils 274
and corresponding to the rib lines 273. When guide 254 is depressed low enough
and the white thread fed under all the radial needles, the white coils 274, and, con-
sequently the rib lines 273 are discontinued. When thus positioned the fabric has
all black veneer coils 277 without rib lines on the front face and black single coil
loops and all rib lines on the rear face, the fabric is absolutely black on both faces
and the foundation coils 280* of the white thread are completely buried, and the
fabric is all 1/1 rib one side and all plain the other side. Further, by casting off
the radial loops (by the means before referred to) the result is a single ply fabric
of compound loops like the compound loops shewn in Fig. 5. In this two ply
fabric the loops do not run and make holes or menders when cast-off, I therefore
make the leg in two ply fabric and cast off the radial loops at the ankle and finish
the foot in single ply fabric, (the suspension of the back file or ply of loops making
no difference to the front face of the fabric) and consequently obtain an article
having a thick leg and a fine foot.
In
In Fig. 5" a supplementary red thread 72% is used with more varied results.
this figure the needles and guides are positioned to produce the fabric shewn in
Figs. 5, 5 and 5'. The white thread 72' feeds all the cylinder needles, and
makes the single loops 320 and the foundation coils 321. The red thread 728
feeds all the radial needles 322 and makes the veneer coils 324 and foundation
coils 325 and also feeds the cylinder needles 323 and makes the veneer coils 326.
The black thread 72° feeds all the radial needles 322 and makes the foundation
coils 327 and the veneer coils 328 and also feeds the cylinder needles 329 and makes
the veneer coils 340.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a conical designer or needle
picking device and its pickers operating to pick the needles, substantially and for
the purposes set forth.
2. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a conical designer or needle
picking device mounted to revolve at an angle to and operating to pick the needles,
substantially and for the purposes set forth.
3. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, ribber arm and its supporting
spindle, a gear wheel on the spindle and a designer or needle picking device geared
to the wheel adapted to pick or move the needles, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
4. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, cams and a hoop shaped designer
or needle picking device having external gear teeth and adapted to be geared to
the needle bed through intervening wheels, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
5. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, cams and designer or needle
picking device therefor, the designer geared to the needle bed or machine by inter-
vening gear wheels, substantially and for the purposes set forth.

page_text: 6. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, cams and designer or needle
picking device therefor, the designer geared to the needle bed or machine by inter-
vening gear wheels, the wheels operating to drive the designer at a reduced speed
in relation to the needles, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
.
7. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, needle cams and a designer or
needle picking device therefor, the designer geared down to travel at one speed
and the needle cams at another speed, and means of reducing the speed of the
designer, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
8. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, cams and a designer or needle
picking device therefor, the designer having pickers and a flexible ring, the ring
securing the pickers detachably in their tricks and serving as a pivot or fulcrum
for the pickers, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
9. In a
knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, designer and its pickers, a
revolving needle picking device engaging with the designer pickers and operating
to pick or move the needles, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
10. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a designer and its pickers,
a revolving needle picking device engaging with the designer pickers comprising
a rotatable body carrying one or more picker arms mounted to revolve, and gear
wheels for driving the same, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
11. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a geared needle picking
device comprising a rotatable body, having teeth or picker arms thereon, operated
to engage or mesh with the needles and gear wheels for driving the same, sub-
stantially and for the purposes set forth.
12. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a needle picking device
comprising a rotatable body, teeth extending therefrom adapted to engage the
needles, and driving gear therefor, and provisions whereby some needles are picked
singly and some collectively, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
13. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a geared needle picker
comprising a driven body rotating round its own centre as to make a stroke
upon the needles on a line substantially parallel to the needles, engaging the
needles as to move them, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
14. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, needle picker or picker
arms comprising a metal blank having a hole through its side and one end brought
to fan shape cross-wise of the stem, adapted to be attached to a rotatable body and
rotated round its own centre as to engage the needle, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
15. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a revolving picker
yieldingly pivoted to a rotatable body and held in position by a spring, and con-
necting parts therefor adapted to pick or move a needle, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
16. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, and needles, a tricked designer or
needle picking device and its pickers, a picker elevating cam positioned above the
pickers and operating on the tail ends of the pickers, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
17. In a knitting machine, a designer or needle picking device having a series
of pickers, one series having their needle or fan ends on one level and another
series having their needle or fan ends on another level in relation to their centre
of action, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
18. In a knitting machine, a designer or needle picking device having a series
of pickers, one series having their tail ends or cam points on one level and another
series having their tail ends or cam points on another level in relation to their
centre of motion, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
19. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and designer or needle picking
device, the designer carrying a series of pickers, one series having their ends in
one position, another series having their ends in another position in relation to
their centre of motion, one series operating to pick their needles to one level and

page_text: the other series operating to pick their needles to another level, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
20. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, thread guides and designer or
needle picking device, and provisions in virtue of which some needles will be
picked to one level and some to another level in relation to their threads, and
descend consecutively and uniformly to draw their loops, substantially and for
the purposes set forth.
21. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, thread guides and designer or
needle picking device, and provisions in virtue of which some needles are picked to
one level, some to another level and some to a third level, adapted to allow the
needles of one level to take the thread of one feed eye into their hooks, and the
needles of another level to take the thread of another feed eye into their hooks,
substantially and for the purposes set forth.
I
22. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and designer or needle picking
device, a compound picker or picker arm comprising a bar or blade having its
needle end broad enough to pick a plurality of needles, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
23. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and a designer or needle picking
device, having provisions in virtue of which needles are picked or moved collec-
tively at one stroke of a picker, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
24. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and a designer or needle
picking device, having provisions whereby some needles are moved singly and some
collectively, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
25. A knitting machine needle having its tail end reduced and rendered flexible
and turned up in the direction of the hook, substantially and for the purposes set
forth.
26. A knitting machine needle having its tail end reduced and rendered flexible,
the flexible tail being folded over upon itself substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
27. A knitting machine needle having its tail end split and rendered flexible
and turned up in the direction of the hook, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
28. A knitting machine needle having a tail thinner than the shank and folded
back forming a spring needle adapted to support itself in the trick of a needle
bed, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
29. A wire knitting needle composed of a stem, hook, latch, foot and tail, the
tail end turned up towards the hook and squared or flattened at the bend of the tail
forming a cam flat at right angles to the needles, adapted to be acted upon by the
thrust cam, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
30. A knitting needle having a shank, hook, latch and foot, the hook having a
straight or flat top, adapted to support the patterning thread, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
31. A knitting machine needle having a shank, hook, latch and foot, the hook
squared and cornered, adapted to draw one thread in one corner and another thread
in another corner of the square hook thus made, and keep the threads separate,
substantially and for the purposes set forth.
32. A knitting machine needle having a shank, hook, latch and foot and pro-
visions in virtue of which it will draw a compounded loop or a plurality of
threads side by side comprising a hook squared and cornered as to form a flat loop
drawing surface, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
33. A knitting machine needle having a compound hook or a hook with two loop-
drawing surfaces, one at one level and one at another level adapted to draw two loops
simultaneously, one a short and one a long loop, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
34. A knitting machine needle having a compound hook, the hook being part
turned, again continued upward and forward, then completely turned making
to hooks, substantially and for the purposes set forth.

page_text: 35. A knitting machine having provisions in virtue of which a fabric is made
compounded of a plurality of threads, in which the loop of one thread is tighter
and smaller than the loop of the other thread, comprising a needle bed, the tricks
of which have an inner level and an outer level, forming two loop-drawing
surfaces for the one set of needles, the loop-drawing surfaces being of different
heights, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
36. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, the needle bed
having its tricks bevelled outwardly and downwardly, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
37. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, the needle tricks of
the bed brought up to an apex forming two levels or loop-drawing surfaces, the
apex situated substantially midway of the two levels, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
38. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, in combination with
a needle bed having its tricks bevelled, a latch retainer adapted to delay the closing
of the needle latches comprised of a rotatable disc engaging with the latches,
and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
39. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, in combination with
a needle bed having its tricks bevelled, a latch retainer adapted to delay
the closing of the needle latches comprised of a fixed blade engaging with the
latches, and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set
forth.
40. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, in combination with
a needle bed having its tricks bevelled, a latch retaining device adapted to delay
the closing of the needle latches and operating to prevent the derangement of the
threads in the needle hooks, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
41. In a knitting machine, a flexible web needle having a hook, shank, foot and
tail, the tail turned backward and rearward of the foot as to form a flexible tail,
substantially and for the purposes set forth.
42. In a knitting machine, a web needle having a hook, shank, foot and tail,
having its upper part shaped to form two loop-drawing levels, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
43. In a knitting machine, a wire web needle having a hook, shank, foot and
tail, the foot bent at right angles to the shank and bent again parallel to the shank
making a hooked foot, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
44. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, in combination with web
needles, fabric spurs attached to and moving with the web needles operating to
penetrate and depress the fabric, and connecting means therefor, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
45. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams in combination with
web needles, a hook operating to engage with and depress the newly made loops
from the needles and a fabric spur engaging with and operating to depress the
knitted fabric, and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
46. In a knitting machine, needle beds, needles and cams, in combination with
web needles, a radial bed, a lug thereon and a pointed prong or spur driven in
the lug adapted to pierce and prevent the fabric rising, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
47. A wire needle having the end of its foot squared or flattened and a spring
tail made by reducing the tail to render it flexible, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
48. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and cams, the needles made of wire and
flattened on the end of their feet, a series of needles of one length of foot and a
series of needles of another length of foot, the series arranged alternately with each
other in the needle bed, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
49. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, cams and web needles, the
needle bed provided with web needle slots and tricks, the slots being in the side

page_text: and tricks in the top edge of the needle bed, and an inner web needle bed adapted
to receive web needles, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
50. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, and cams, web needles and
web needle canis, the web needles within the cylinder, their feet passing through
slots in the side and their hooks passing through tricks in the top edge of the
needle bed, and connecting means for operating the back needles, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
51. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, cams, web needles and web
needle cams provisions to deppress the fabric with the web needles and provisions
to disengage the web needles, substantially, for the purposes set forth.
52. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, cams, web needles and web
needle cams, the web needle cams comprised of a central elevating cam, a dual
depressing and a dual receding cam operating, first to elevate the hook, secondly
to advance the hook, thirdly to recced the hook, fourthly to depress the hook, and
connecting means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
53. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, cams, web needles and web
needle cams, the web needle cams comprised of a central elevating cam, a dual
depressing cam and a dual receding can, and means to withdraw the web needle
cams and thereby suspend the action of the web needles, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
54. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, cams, web needles and web
needle cams having provisions whereby a compound horizontal and vertical action
of the web needle hook is obtained, operating to effectually hold the rib as well
as the plain loops, and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
55. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cam plate, a draw cam
having a supporting stalk and means of adjustably attaching the same to the cam
plate, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
56. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cam plate, a draw cam
having a supporting stalk and a winged cam have a barrel to receive the stalk, the
draw cam and winged cam adjustable to each other, and means of adjustably attach-
ing the same to the cam plate, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
57. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cam plates, a winged cam
comprised of a cam having a barrel and a right and a left wing, the wings adapted
to receive and guide the needles onto the draw cam, the winged cam capable of
adjustment from position to position in relation to the draw cam, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
58. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cam plate, an adjustable
draw cam, a catch wheel provided with a crown cam, a spring and a pivoted lever,
the lever connecting the draw cam and catch wheel, the catch wheel positioned
horizontally and the crown cam serving to adjust the draw cam against the counter-
action of the spring, and connecting means to actuate the catch wheel, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
59. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cam plate, an adjustable
draw cam and lever, spring and connecting means therefor, adapted whereby the
draw cam is adjusted one way by spring pressure, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
GO. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a draw cam and its
cam plate or ring, and stops provided to engage and carry the draw cam, the stops
having inclines of the same degree as the inclines of the draw cam, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
61. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a needle thrust or throw
cam and a needle draw or stitch cam and connecting means therefor, the thrust
cam on one ring or cam plate, the draw cam on another ring or cam plate, the
thrust cam capable of movement from one side to the other of the draw cam,
virtue of which the draw cam will trail behind the thrust cam in either direction
of knitting, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
in

page_text: 62. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a thrust cam and a draw
cam and connecting means therefor, having provisions in virtue of which the
thrust cam will take the lead of the draw cam in either direction of knitting as to
render a second thrust cam unnecessary, substantially and for the purposes set
forth.
63. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a thrust cam and connecting
means therefor, the draw cam transplacable from one side to the other side of the
thrust cam, operating to dispense with the second thrust cam, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
64. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a thrust cam and a draw
cam and connecting means therefor, having provisions wherefor the draw cam
will take the rear position of the thrust cam in either direction of knitting, the
thrust cam arranged to travel in one plane and the draw cam to travel in another
plane, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
65. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a thrust cam and a draw
cam mounted in a manner that the thrust cam will pass by the draw cam and
engage the needles in advance of the draw cam in either direction of knitting,
and connecting means therefor substantially and for the purposes set forth.
66. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a thrust cam and a draw
cam and connecting means therefor, having provisions wherefor the draw cam will
take the rear position of the thrust cam in either direction of knitting, the thrust
cam on a line with and engaging the tails and the draw cam on a line with and
engaging the feet of the needles, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
67. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a thrust cam and a draw
cam and connecting means therefor having provisions wherefor the draw cam
will take the rear position of the thrust cam in either direction of knitting,
the thrust cam slidable longitudinally and an eccentric lever for its adjustment,
substantially and for the purposes set forth.
68. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and transplacable draw and
thrust cams, and connecting means therefor, a cam plate having a heart-shaped
slot, an independent cam plate carrying a slidable thrust cam, an adjustable
eccentric lever on the cam capable of traversing the heart-shaped slot and sliding
the thrust cam out of and into needle action upon reversing the direction of
knitting, operating to give the thrust cam the lead of the draw cam, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
69. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, and a dual cam plate;
one part carrying the thrust cam and one part carrying the draw cam, one part
bearing a moveable relation to the other cam part, operating to transplace the draw
cam from one side to the other side of the thrust cam, and connecting means
therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
70. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a dual cam carrier com-
prised of a part carrying the thrust cam and a part carrying the draw cam, the
two parts bearing a circumferentially moveable relation to each other, and connect-
ing means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
71. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, a dual cam carrier comprised
of one part carrying the draw cam and one part carrying the thrust cam, provided
with gear teeth and stops to carry the other part, the two parts mounted to bear a
moveable relation to each other operating to transplace the thrust cam from one
side to the other side of the draw cam, and connecting means therefor, substan-
tially and for the purposes set forth.
72. In a reversable knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, a dual cam
carrier the two parts of which are capable of independent movement, one part
carrying a draw cam, the other part carrying a thrust cam and a needle finger,
operating to allow the needle finger together with the thrust cam to lead the draw
cam in either direction of knitting, and connecting means therefor permitting the
needle finger to slide a needle forward of the draw cam to its right and forward
of the draw cam to its left, substantially and for the purposes set forth.

page_text: 73. In a reversable knitting machine, a needle bed and, needles, a dual cam
carrier, one part carrying a draw cam and one part carrying a needle finger and
bearing a circumferentially moveable relation to the other part, and connecting
means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
74. In a reversable knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, in combination
with transplacable cams and a dual cam carrier, a needle finger having provisions
whereby it will pass and take the lead of the draw cam and perform the combined
functions of needle elevator and depressor, operating in advance of the draw cam,
and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
75. In a reversable knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, in com-
bination, transplacable right and left acting cams, a needle finger and a dual cam
carrier operating whereby the needles are disengaged and re-engaged with the
cams in advance of the draw cam and connecting means therefor, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
76. In a reversable knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, in combination
with transplacable cams and a dual cam carrier, a universally acting needle finger
transplacable in respect to the draw cam, operating to conduct the needles to the
non-knitting position, and thereafter to the knitting position, the transposition of
the needle taking place forward of the draw cam in either direction of knitting,
and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth..
77. In a reversable knitting. machine, a needle bed, and a group of, needles, in
combination, transplacable cams and a needle finger, the needle finger trans-
placable as to the draw cam and adapted to act beneath the feet of the needles
and slide them in one direction and to act above their feet and slide them in the
other direction, operating to slide a needle to the right alternately with a needle to
the left side of the group of needles, and connecting means therefor, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
78. In a reversable knitting machine, a needle bed, a group of non-knitting
needles and a group of knitting needles, in combination with transplacable cams,
a needle finger capable of passing the stitch cam and sliding a needle in the
direction of its length and engaging a needle at either end of the knitting or non-
knitting group of needles, operating to decrease the number of needles knitting at
every course knitted and thereafter increase the number of needles knitting at
every course knitted, and connecting. means therefor, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
79. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles, in combination, transplacable
cams and an universally acting needle picking finger, the needle finger com-
prising a spindle arranged to point to the needles, a rocking member jointed to
the spindle approximately parallel to the longitudinal line of the needles and
yieldingly held in operative position by spring pressure, a second rocking member
jointed to the first member approximately at right angles also yieldingly held in
position by spring pressure and having an entry for engagement with the needle
feet, operating to collide with and elevate a needle out of cam action and means to
return the needle back to cam action, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
80. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, in combination, trans-
placable cams and a needle finger, the needle finger and thrust cam combined and
working in conjunction and bearing a circumferentially moveable relation to the
draw cam, adapted to engage the needles forward of the draw cam, and connecting
means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
81. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, in combination, trans-
placable cams and a needle finger, the needle finger capable of transplacement from
one side to the other of the draw cam, comprised of a vertical spring-tensioned
rocking bar or member carrying another spring-tensioned rocking bar or member
at right angles thereto, adapted to engage with the needles in advance, substan-
tially and for the purposes set forth.
82. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, in combination, trans-
placable cams and a needle finger, the needle finger capable of transplacement from

page_text: one side to the other of the draw cam, comprised of a vertical spring-tensioned
rocking bar or member carrying another spring-tensioned rocking bar or member.
at right angles thereto, adapted to engage with the needles, and connecting means
therefor operating to first disengage the needles then to re-engage the needles with
the cams as to fashion a heel or toe pouch, substantially and for the purposes set
forth.
83. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, in combination, trans-,
placable cams and a needle finger, the needle finger having a compound rocking
movement and capable of passing by the draw cam, comprised of a vertical rocking.
bar carrying another rocking bar swinging on a pin adjustable secured to the cam
plate and controlled by spring tension, and connecting means therefor, substan-.
tially and for the purposes set forth.
84. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and needles, in combination, trans-
placable cams and a needle finger, the needle finger having a compound rocking
movement and capable of passing the draw cam, comprising a vertical rocking bar
carrying another horizontal rocking bar, and adjustable stops to limit the rocking.
motion, the vertical rocking bar having a greater degree of spring tension than the
horizontal bar, operating to insure the rock of the vertical bar before the rock of;
the right angle bar, and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
85. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, an adjustable guide
cam adapted to guide the picked needles down onto the stitch or draw cam, a spring
to elevate the guide cam, a rack wheel carrying a cam and a lever, the lever con-
necting the rack cams and operating to elevate the guide cam, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
86. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, an adjustable guide
cam and a lever therefor adapted to be depressed by a cam on a rack wheel and
elevated by spring pressure, and means of actuating the rack wheel, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
87. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and cams, a series of needles, one series
one length, one series another length and one series a third length of foot, arranged
in the needle beds to alternate, a compound cast-off cam comprised of three cams
back to back, the two inner cams being adjustable as to the needle feet adapted to
cast the loops from certain needles, and connecting means therefor, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
88. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and cams, a series of needles, of different
lengths of feet alternating with each other and cast-off cams comprised of an
adjustable face cam adapted to engage the short-footed needles and a
fixed rear cam adapted to engage the long-footed needles, the face cam
operating to cause a series of needles to draw later, allow the thread to get under
their latches and consequently cast-off their loops, and connecting means therefor
substantially and for the purposes set forth.
89. In a knitting machine, a needle bed and cams, a series of long and short-
footed needles, and a compound cast-off cam comprising an adjustable face cam
to engage with the short-footed needles, an adjustable needle cam co-operating
with the face cam to engage with the medium footed needles and a
fixed rear cam to engage with the long-footed needles and means of adjusting
the face and middle cams from one draw line to another draw line, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
90. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, cams and a series of needles of varying
lengths of feet, an adjustable cast-off cam having a stalk and capable of adjustment
as to the needle feet, and connecting parts therefor, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
91. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, cams and a series of needles of varying
lengths of feet, and adjustable cast-off cams situated midway of the needle bed
and another cam, and connecting devices therefor, operating to delay the draw of
one series of needles and allow the thread to get beneath their latches, cast their

page_text: loops and suspend knitting, adapted to change the pattern of rib produced, sub-
stantially and for the purposes set forth.
92. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, cams and a series of needles of varying
lengths of feet, a cast-off cam situated midway of the needle bed and another cam,
comprising a cam faced up to the needle bed, a hollow stalk thereon,
a hole in the cam plate or ring to receive the stalk, a spring provided to elevate
and a lever to depress the cam, the lever rising on the cammed surface of a catch
wheel and means of adjusting the catch wheel, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
93. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, cams, a series of needles of varying
lengths of feet, a cast-off cam situated midway of the needle bed and another cam
comprising a cam faced up to the needle bed, a hollow stalk thereon, a hole in the
cam ring to receive the stalk, a spring to elevate and a lever to depress the cam,
the lever riding on the cams of a catch wheel and means of actuating the catch
wheel, and a second cast-off cam working conjointly comprising a cam faced up to
the other cast-off cam, a solid stalk thereon sliding in the hollow stalk and a com-
pressed spring with the stalk to force the cams apart, substantially, and for the
purposes set forth.
94. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, cams and needles, having provisions
in virtuo of which the draw of some needles is delayed operating to allow the
latches of a series of needles to get above the thread and suspend knitting, sub-
stantially and for the purposes set forth.
95. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a cast-off cam
positioned on the cam plate and capable of engagement and dis-engagement with
the needles to cast-off the loops from the needles, and connecting means therefor,
substantially and for the purposes set forth.
96. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, an early draw or
cast-off cam capable of engagement and disengagement with the needles and
positioned in advance of the stitch or draw cam adapted to draw the needles
earlier or in advance of the normal time of draw whereby their hooks miss the
knitting thread operating to cast-off the knitted loops, and connecting means
therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
97. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a cast-off cam capable
of engagement and disengagement with the needles and situated midway of the
thrust and draw cams and adjustable as to the needles adapted to draw the needles
prematurely and cause their hooks to miss the knitting thread, operating to cast
off the knitted loops, and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
98. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a cast-off cam positioned
to and capable of engagement and disengagement with the needles, adapted to
draw the needles prematurely operating to cast off the knitted loops, and a transfer
cam situated in advance of the cast-off cam capable of engagement and disengage-
ment with the needles, and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
99. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, cams and a series of short and a series
of long-footed needles, a cast-off cam adapted to cast-off needle loops and a transfer
cam adapted to link the loop of one needle around another needle, operating to
transfer the loops of a series of needles, and connecting means therefor whereby a
change in the rib pattern of the fabric made thereon is effected, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
100. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and thrust and draw cams
therefor, a transfer cam situated forward of the draw cam operating to thrust the
needles forward beyond the knitting thrust line to the transfer line of travel,
adapted to link the loops of a series of needles round other needles, and connecting
means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
101. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and thrust and draw cams
therefor, a transfer cam situated forward of the draw cam, and a cast-off cam situ-

page_text: ated midway of the draw and thrust cams working in conjunction, and connecting
means therefor, adapted to transfer loops and operating to change the pattern of
rib produced, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
102. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed, needles and thrust and draw
cams therefor, a transfer cam forward of the draw cam and a cast-off cam midway
of the draw and thrust cams, operating in conjunction, the needle bed carrying a
series of short-footed and a series of long-footed needles, the transfer thrust cam
and cast-off draw cam adapted to miss the short feet and operate on the long feet,
and connecting means therefor, operating to effect a change in the rib pattern
of the fabric produced, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
103. In a knitting machine, a needle bed needles and cams, a brush for regu-
lating the needle latches comprising bristles laid between two wires, the wires
twisted round each other and the bristles secured between them, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
104. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a brush com-
prising a length of bristles adapted to the needle bed and arranged with the bristles
penetrating the needle tricks and covering the sliding line of the needles and
operating to open their latches, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
105. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a thread guide
having a feed eye positioned adjacent to the needles, a plate adjustably secured to
the guide and carrying a brush, the brush situated beneath the feed eye and
operating to regulate and control the latches, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
106. In a knitting machine, a bed, needles, cams and guide, a latch guard or
regulator comprising a plate provided with means for adjustable attachment to the
guide carrying a brush, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
107. In a knitting machine a needle bed, needles and cams, an adjustable thread
guide bar having a forward feed eye radially disposed to and adjacent to the
needle, and a rearward feed eye vertically disposed to the needles, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
108. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, an adjustable thread
guide bar positioned radially having a feed eye at its inner end in close proximity
to the needles, a hood next adjacent, and a take-up wire positioned to lift the
thread from between the feed eye and hood, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
109. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a thread guide
having a feed eye adjacent to the needles, a hood rearward of the feed eye and a
take-up wire adapted to draw the thread from a point between the feed and
hood and a plate adjustably screwed to the thread bar, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
eye
110. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a thread guide
comprising a bar having a feed eye in one end adjacent to the needles, a hood next
adjacent to the feed eye and a take-up wire secured to the outer end, a plate carry-
ing a brush to regulate the latches and means of engaging and disengaging the
take-up wire with the thread, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
111. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a thread guide com-
prising a bar having a feed eye adjacent to the needles, a hood next adjacent to the
feed eye and a take-up wire adjustably secured to the bar, and connecting parts
therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
112. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a thread guide com-
prising a bar having a feed eye adjacent to the needles and a take-up wire secured
to the outer end of the bar operating on the thread immediately in the rear of the
feed eye, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
113. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed having the base of its tricks at
their forward ends cut at an angle to its cam plate, whereby the degree of tilt on
the hook ends of the needles is increased and a uniform tilt assured, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.

page_text: 114. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed having the base of its tricks in
one part, cut at an angle to its cam plate, a series of needles of one length of tail
and a series of needles of another length of tail, substantially, and for the purposes
set forth.
115. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed having the base of the needle
tricks cut at an angle to its cam plate, in one part, some needles of one width
and some needles of another width of tail, and a thread guide adjustable to the
needles and adapted to feed its thread below some needles and above other needles,
substantially and for the purposes set forth.
116. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed having the base of the needle
tricks cut at an angle to its cam plate in one part, a series of needles of one length
and width of tail and a series of needles of another length and width of tail, an
adjustable thread guide and means of adjusting the thread from one series to another
series, and connecting parts therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
117. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed having its tricks cut at an angle
to the cam plate in one part, and the face line of the bed parallel with the cam
plate forming a trick of two depths, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
118. In a knitting machine, a needle bed having needle tricks of two depths,
the base being at an angle in the forward part and on a parallel line in the rear
part with the face line of the bed and cam plate, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
119. In a knitting machine, a needle bed having needle tricks of two depths, in
virtue of which the needles receive a combined rocking and sliding movement
at their forward end, the base being cut at an angle to the base of the other part,
and means of controlling the rocking movement of the needles, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
120. In a knitting machine, a needle bed having a rise or apex in the base of
the trick adapted to rock or tilt the sliding needle, and means of controlling the
rock or tilt of the needles, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
121. In a knitting machine, an angle tricked needle bed having its tricks deeper
at one part than at another, and a rise or apex higher than the base of either part
of the trick, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
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122. In a knitting machine in which the tilt of the radial needle is limited by
its tail a series of needles, some needles of one length of tail and some needles of
another length of tail whereby some needles tilt to one angle and some needles
tilt to another angle to the cam line, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
123. In a knitting machine in which the tilt of the radial, needle is limited by
its tail, a series of needles, some needles of one width of tail and some needles of
another width of tail, whereby some needles tilt to one angle and some needles tilt
to another angle to the cam line, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
124. In a knitting machine in which the tilt of the radial needle is limited by
its tail, a series of needles of one length and width of tail and a series of another
length and another width of tail, in virtue of which some needles tilt to one angle
and some tilt to another angle to the cam line, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
125. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a wire needle
holder adapted to engage the needle and hold it in the trick of the needle bed,
substantially and for the purposes set forth.
126. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a needle holder
adapted to hold the needle in its trick and allow it to slide independent of the
holder, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
127. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a needle holder
attached to and provided to slide with the needle and allow it to have sliding action
independent of the holder, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
128. A telescopic or collapseable knitting machine needle, comprising a needle

page_text: naving a foot, hook and shank and a recess and a tail piece or holder to slide in
the recess, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
129. In a knitting machine, a needle and its holder or tail piece, the holder
detachably connected to the needle forming a moveable tail piece, the two parts
telescopic, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
130. A knitting machine needle and tail piece combined, the two parts tele-
scopic, forming a needle having an extensable and contractable tail, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
131. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a series of needle
holders, one series of one form and one series of another form, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
132. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a series of needle
holders, some holders fulcrummed to the needle bed and some holders sliding in
the needle tricks, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
133. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a series of needle
holders and tilting cams, some holders engaging with one cam and some holders
engaging with another cam, operating to regulate the tilting of the needles, sub-
stantially and for the purposes set forth.
134. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, needle holders and
a holder or tilting cam operating to impart a rocking or tilting action to the
holders and needles, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
135. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, needle holders and
tilting cams operating to depress the tilted needles into their tricks, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
136. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, needle holders and
tilting cams operating to elevate the needles in their tricks, substantially and for
the purposes set forth.
137. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed, needles and cams, a tilting
cam positioned at right angles to the needles and operating to regulate their tilting,
substantially and for the purposes set forth.
138. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed, needles and cams, a cam
positioned at right angles to the needles operating to tip or rock the needles to
determine the position of their feet relative to the needle cams, and connecting
means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
139. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed, needles and needle cams, a
series of cams positioned at right angles to the needles and operating to control
the needles, the cams transplacable from point to point circumferentially, and
connecting means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
140. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed, rib needles and needle cams,
and transfer cams positioned at right angles to the needles operating to determine
the line of travel of the needles and which needle shall traverse the transfer cam,
one cam regulating one series of needles and one cam regulating another series
of needles, and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
141. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed, needles and needle cams,
circumferentially transplacable cams operating to determine the position of the
needle feet to the needle cams, the cams rotatable with the needle cams and
adjustable thereto circumferentially, means of transplacing the cams and connect-
ing parts therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
142. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed and supporting spindle, needles
and needle cams, a tube free upon the spindle carrying cams and fingers and an
adjustable stop arm to engage the fingers and carry the tube round with the cams,
operating to hold one cam in line with the needle cams at one time and another at
another time, and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
143. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed, needles and needle cams, trans-
placable cams and an adjustable stop arm therefor, a spring to depress the stop

page_text: arm and a rack wheel having a cam adapted to elevate the stop arm
and connecting devices and means therefor, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
144. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed, needles and needle cams, trans-
placable cams, adjustable stop, spring and cammed rack wheel, a pattern chain and
rack lever to actuate the rack wheel and connecting means operating to determine
which needles shall rock or tilt, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
145. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed, needles and cams, the needle
bed built up of a lower or base part and an upper or tricked part, the former inclined
at an angle from the cams or cam plate forming an apex upon which the needles
may be rocked, the latter provided with needle tricks, the two parts combined to
make a complete bed, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
146. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed, needles and cams, the needle
bed compounded or built up of two parts comprised of a disc or base part and a
complete ring having needle tricks radiating therefrom provided to receive needles,
the disc or base part provided to receive the upper part, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
147. In a knitting machine, a built up needle bed, the base part a complete disc,
the upper part a complete ring having needle tricks radiating therefrom, the base
part supporting the upper part and its needles, the ring of the upper part being
above the level of the needle tails and forming a bridge under which the tails can
slide, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
148. In a knitting machine, a built up needle bed, the base part a complete disc,
the upper part provided with needle tricks, the base part supporting
the upper part and its needles, the base part having tricks to correspond with and
receive the tricks of the upper part, substantially and for the purposes set forth
149. In a knitting machine, a built up needle bed, the base part a complete
disc, the upper part provided with needle tricks, which are broader in the lower
than in the upper part, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
150. In a knitting machine, a tricked radial bed having a ring of metal integral
with the bed adapted to connect the tricks and form a bridge from trick to trick
under which the needles can slide, the ring of metal serving to support and
strengthen the tricks, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
151. In a knitting machine, a tricked radial needle bed having its tricks broader
in the lower part than the upper part, adapted to receive needles in which the stem
is diverted or bent sideways, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
152. A knitting machine needle having its knitting stem diverted or bent down-
wards and sideways from the needle foot, adapted to transfer its loop to another
needle, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
153. A knitting machine needle having its knitting stem diverted or bent
sideways and its tail folded back onto the underneath side of the needle, adapted
to transfer its loop to another needle, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
154. A knitting machine needle having its knitting stem diverted sideways and
its tail thinned and rendered flexible and folded rearward across the side opening
and serving to support the part of the needle forward of the needle foot, adapted to
transfer its loop to another needle, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
155. A knitting needle having its knitting stem diverted sideways and down-
wards from the foot in the direction of the hook, and its tail folded across the
opening made by the side diversion, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
156. A knitting machine needle having its knitting stem diverted sideways, the
tail thinned and rendered more flexible sideways than the needle stem, substan-
tially and for the purposes set forth.
157. A knitting needle having its knitting stem diverted sideways forming a
side opening forward of the foot, the tail behind the foot folded back upon itself
and across the opening as to provide a space between the bars of the tail to receive
a tail piece, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
158. A knitting needle having its tail folded back upon itself providing a space

page_text: between the two bars thereof and a metal tail piece or needle holder adapted to
slide between the two bars, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
159. A knitting needle having its tail folded back upon itself as to provide a
space between the two bars thereof to receive a tail piece or needle holder, the needle
and holder combining to make a collapseable or telescopic needle, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
160. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, an oscillating or
swaying thread guide bar pivoted on the radial cam plate, and provided with a
feed hole wherethrough yarn may pass onto the needle hooks at predetermined
intervals by reason of its thread end swinging forward and rearward of the hooks
and a rotatable cam or pattern surface for swinging it forward, and a spring for
swinging it rearward of the needle hooks, and connecting means therefor, sub-
stantially and for the purposes set forth.
161. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a plurality of
swinging thread guide bars pivoted on the radial cam plate and provided with
means whereby each bar feeds a thread of yarn into the hooks of the needles at
predetermined intervals, the bars exchanging positions, one bar commencing to
feed its thread to the hooks when the other bar discontinues to feed its thread to
the hooks, each bar alternately swinging its thread forward and rearward of the
hooks, a rotatable cam or pattern surface and a spring to control the action of the
bars, and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
162. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a pivoted thread
guide mounted on the radial cam plate having a feed eye wherethrough yarn may
pass at predetermined intervals and thread severing or trapping scissors adapted
to sever the thread and hold the loose end and means of actuating them comprised
of a geared wheel meshed to a stationary wheel and provided with cams and a
pattern surface, and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
163. In a knitting machine, a radial needle bed and its supporting arm and
spindle, a collar serrated diagonally and a pin in the side of the rib arm boss, a
collar having an adjustable bearing on the pin and supporting the rib spindle,
operating to adjust the ribber bed to the cylinder bed, substantially and for the
purposes set forth.
164. In a knitting machine, needle beds, needles and cams, in combination
with transplacable cams, a compound dial post, one part adjustably secured to the
other and adjustably held in position within the needle cylinder, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
165. In a knitting machine, needle beds, needles and cams, in combination
with transplacable cams, a compound dial posts comprising two levers pivoted to
each other and a wing screw to regulate the adjustment of one part to the other
adapted to receive the lug of the radial needle bed between them, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
166. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, an adjustable and
reversable yarn cross adapted to be converted from a low to a high cross, substan-
tially and for the purposes set forth.
167. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, an adjustable or
reversable yarn cross comprising a ring, a cross piece and ring adapted to receive
each other, and means of securing them together, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
168. In a knitting machine, a combined bobbin support and thread conductor,
comprising a hollow bobbin wire adapted to receive the bobbin or cop of yarn and
to guide its thread through the centre hole of the bobbin or cop, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
169. În a knitting machine, a combined bobbin support and thread conductor,
adapted to guide the thread from and conduct it through the bobbin or cop, com-
prising a hollow wire or tube, a disc provided on top of the tube to protect the
thread from the nose of the bobbin, and an outlet hole through the side of the

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wire wherethrough the thread may pass, substantially and for the purposes set
forth.
170. In a knitting machine, a bed, needles and cams, an adjustable or rocking
thread guide bar adapted to feed a thread to the needles at a plurality of points and
a cammed catch wheel for rocking the feed end of the thread guide from position
to position and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
171. In a knitting machine, a bed, needles and cams, a plurality of adjustable
or rocking thread guides provided with a feed eye wherethrough thread may pass
onto the needles, and capable of changing the positions of feed from point to point
at predetermined intervals, operating to reverse the position of the threads and
change the pattern of the fabric produced, and connecting means therefor, sub-
stantially and for the purposes set forth.
172. In a knitting machine, two needle beds, needles and cams a flanged pillar
adjustably secured to the flange of the rotatable cam plate or ring and positioned
parallel to the axis of the machine, and carried with the cam ring, adapted to
receive a ribber arm and support the dial central with the cylinder, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
173. In a knitting machine, two needle beds, needles and cams, a flanged pillar
adjustably secured to the flange of the rotatable ring and a rib arm having two
holes parallel to each other detachably fixed on the pillar and supporting the
radial bed and its adjuncts, adapted to hold the needle beds in true relation with
each other, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
174. In a knitting machine, two needle beds, needles and cams, a self-adjusting
rib arm comprising a cross piece having two holes bored parallel and a flanged
pillar adjustably secured to the rotatable cam ring parallel with the axis of the
machine, the cross piece detachably secured to the pillar, and means of fastening
the cross piece to the pillar in a true radial line, substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
175. In a knitting machine, two needle beds, needles and cams, a flanged pillar
affixed to the faced flange of the rotatable cam ring and positioned parallel to the
axis of the machine, having an arm projecting radially therefrom, carrying a needle
bed, adapted to insure a correct alignment of the needle beds, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
176. In a knitting machine, a link gear for transmitting or communicating
motion direct from the driving shaft to the machine, comprised of a link inter-
vening between the driving shaft and machine wheel, crank pins for the link and
connecting means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
177. In a knitting machine, a compound rotary and reciprocatory driving device
adapted to alternately rotate and reciprocate the machine from a direct rotary
driving shaft, comprised of a rotary driving crank pin on the driving shaft, and a
driven crank pin connected as to drive the machine, and a connecting link mounted
on the pins to transmit motion, and auxiliary links provided to avoid dead centres,
substantially and for the purposes set forth.
178. In a knitting machine, a compound rotary and reciprocatory driving device
comprised of a plurality of independently mounted crank pins linked together and
capable of a united rotary motion, and connecting means of diverting the rotary
motion of the driving crank pin into a reciprocatory motion of the driven crank
pin, and connecting means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
179. In a knitting machine, a linked driving gear adapted to alternately rotate
and reciprocate the machine comprised of a rotary driving crank pin and a driven
crank pin and a connecting link therefor, and means whereby the connecting link
communicates a rotary and reciprocatory motion alternately to the driven crank
pin from the rotary driven pin, and connecting means therefor, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
180. In a knitting machine, a link driving gear adapted to communi-
cate a rotary and reciprocatory motion alternately to the machine from

page_text: a direct rotary motion comprising of connecting links an independently
mounted driving crank pin and an independently mounted driven crank
pin, the
crank pins connected by the links whereby the crank rotates
equally or in unity, and means of breaking the united rotary motion whereby the
driven crank reciprocates whilst the driving crank still rotates, and connecting
means therefor, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
181. In a knitting machine a compound link and crank gear having provisions
in virtue of which the machine is alternately rotated and reciprocated from a direct
rotary motion comprised of a driven crank pin connected to the gear wheel, an
independently mounted and constantly rotating crank pin and a connecting link
coupling the two crank pins and transmitting the motion of one to the other,
means of communicating the rotary motion of the rotary crank pin and one end of
the link to the other crank pin, and means of converting the rotary motion of one
crank pin and one end of the link into a reciprocatory motion of the other end of
the link and the other crank pin, and connecting means therefor, substantially
and for the purposes set forth.
182. In a knitting machine, a shaft and its bearings, a chain wheel on the bear-
ing carrying a chain adapted to receive lugs and operating to impart motions to
the various parts of the machine, and connecting means therefor, substantially and
for the purposes set forth.
183. In a knitting machine, a driving shaft, a driving pulley free upon the shaft,
a disc secured to the shaft having an eccentric boss, a disc or clutch mounted upon
the eccentric and within the flange of the pulley, a spring adapted to hold the
clutch disc in engagement with the pulley flange to drive the machine or out of
engagement with the pulley flange to stop the machine, lock levers upon the disc
and connecting means for reversing the action of the clutch, substantially and for
the purposes set forth.
184. In a knitting machine, a needle bed, needles and cams, a spring tensioned
ribber driving pin comprising a pin adapted to engage the radial cam plate, a
plunger and a tension spring, the plunger operating to hold the pin in action or
out of action with the cam plate, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
185. The improved knitting machine described and illustrated in the specifica-
tion, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
186. A knit fabric comprised of loops filed consecutively from a plurality of
threads running transversely of the fabric and common to one course of knitting,
in which the loops are compounded of a plurality of thread coils, one a long coil
and one a short coil, the coils being uniformly juxtaposed:-
:-one a veneer and one
a foundation coil, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
187. A knit designed or patterned fabric comprised of loops filed consecutively
from a plurality of threads running transversely of the fabric and common to the
one course of knitting, some loops compounded of a plurality of thread coils in
which one is a long coil and one is a short coil, the coils being juxtaposed;-one
a veneer and one a foundation coil, and some loops of a single thread coil, the
single and compound loops intervening with each other as to form designs, sub-
stantially and for the purposes set forth.
188. A kuit designed or patterned fabric comprised of loops filed consecutively
from a thick thread and a fine thread running transversely of the fabric and
common to the one course of knitting, in which some loops are compounded of
coils from both threads and loops of a single coil from the fine thread, the com-
pounded or single loops intervening with each other, in virtue of which the single
coil loops form holes or eyelets, in the fabric substantially and for the purposes
set forth.
189. A knit designed or patterned fabric comprised of loops filed consecutively
from a plurality of threads running transversely of the fabric and common to one
course of knitting, in which some loops are compounded of a plurality of thread
coils as to make patterning loops and some loops are of a single coil, the single

page_text: coil loops of the one thread having the thread of the patterning loops interlaced
or passed through their back cross bars as to form weft loops and absorb the loose
thread coincident to the pattern, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
190. A knit fabric comprised of two files of loops filed consecutively from a
plurality of threads running transversely of the fabric and common to one course
of knitting, in which some loops are compounded of a plurality of thread coils and
some loops of a single coil, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
191. A two ply designed or patterned knit fabric comprised of two files of loops
filed consecutively from a plurality of threads running transversely of the fabric
and common to one course of knitting, in which some loops are compounded of a
plurality of thread coils and some loops of a single thread coil, the thread of one
ply crossing over and forming one of the coils of a compounded loop of the other
ply as to make a veneer or patterning coil on one face and a corresponding rib line
in the other face of the fabric, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
192. A two ply knit fabric comprised of two files of loops filed consecutively
from a plurality of threads running transversely of the fabric and common to the
one course of knitting, in which the thread of one ply crosses over and combined
with the thread of the other ply to make a compound loop and corresponding rib
lines, some loops having more thread coils than other loops, substantially and for
the purposes set forth.
193. A two ply knit fabric comprised of loops filed consecutively from a plurality
of threads running transversely of the fabric and common to one course of
knitting, in which the thread of one ply crosses over and combines with the thread
of the other ply to make a compound loop and corresponding rib lines, some loops
having more coils than other loops, the crossing threads or rib lines joining
together what would otherwise be two plain fabrics set back to back, the compound
loops and corresponding rib lines duly exchanged, effecting a change in the pattern
of rib, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
194. The improvements in knitted fabric described and set forth in the specifica-
tion and drawings, substantially and for the purposes set forth.
April 25th 1898.
Witnesses:-
THOMAS SCOTT.
WALTER EDWIN STURGESS.
Inventor,
GEO. F. STURGESS.