Improvements in Circular Knitting Machines.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application. 5th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 7th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 16th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Circular Knitting Machines.
THOMAS GEORGE LESTER MILLER of 67 Southwark Street Southwark in the
County of London Engineer and FRANCIS THOMAS PINSON 67 Southwark Street
aforesaid Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A cylinder constructed with an extended base or projections which base or
projections may be tongued or grooved.
Å machine bed with tongue or groove or flange on or near to the inner step of
the bed; such tongues grooves or flanges may be fixed and form part of the
aforesaid cylinder and bed, or, they may be independent and adjustable. We
provide a lever or levers for adjusting the said cylinder to any given point
circumferentially.
Another part of our invention relates to a cam shell capable of holding and
working alternately various diameters of cylinders.
We also claim as our invention a machine knitting needle with solid butt and
stem stamped in one piece. Hitherto needles with solid butts have been made in
two pieces and afterwards joined by brazing.
Dated this 4th day of April 1894
T. G. L. MILLER.
F. T. PINSON.
Improvements in Circular Knitting Machines.
We, THOMAS GEORGE LESTER MILLER, of 67 Southwark Street, Southwark,
Engineer, and FRANCIS THOMAS PINSON, of 67 Southwark Street, Southwark,
both in the County of Surrey, Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :--
Our invention relates to improvements in circular knitting machines, which
consists of a cylinder constructed with an extended base or projections which base
or projections may be tongued or grooved.
And in order that our invention may be thoroughly understood, we now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is a vertical section of an ordinary cylinder with the extended base
or lug.
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Fig. 2, is a vertical section of a "compound" cylinder and extended base or lug.
By the cylinder herein termed a "compound cylinder, we mean that such a
cylinder is capable of compounding with two or three bases of different diameters ;
or to reverse the same so that one diameter of base can be used, and cylinders of
various diameters may be worked upon it through our device.
Fig. 3, is a section of the extended base or lug with a groove.
Fig. 4, is an elevation of an ordinary cylinder and lug.

page_text: Fig. 6, is a compound needle.
Fig. 7, is a section of an extended base with a tongue fitting into a groove in the
machine bed.
We construct a machine bed with a tongue or groove or flange, on or near to
the inner step of the bed; such tongues, grooves or flanges may be fixed or movable,
and form part of the aforesaid cylinder and bed, or they may be independent and
adjustable.
Hitherto needles with solid butts have been made in two pieces and afterwards
joined by brazing, but in this invention we make a machine knitting needle with a
solid butt and stem stamped in one piece as in Figs. 5, and 6.
The object of our invention is to work the same in conjunction with a Patent
granted to us numbered 16483 and bearing date, October 18th, 1889.
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The cylinder a with an extended base or lugs & may have a groove e constructed
in any position on the said extended base to receive a corresponding tongue d either
fixed or loose in the base as in Fig. 3.
The tongues may be distinct or separate, or the tongues may be in or on the
cylinder itself or on extended arms or lugs 6 on the cylinder or on the base.
In Fig. 3, we provide or cut in the lugs b a groove c to receive the projecting
tongue on the end of the machine bed ; and in Fig. 7, we show an alternate
arrangement of the groove c in the machine bed, and the projecting tongue d on the
lug or lugs b.
The object of the tongues and grooves hereinbefore described are to give rigidity
to the machine bed and the lugs d of the cylinder a when the said fittings are
connected together.
A tongue may be constructed with a running screw e in the base so as to extend
or contract from the groove in the extended lugs, as shown by dotted lines in
Fig. 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In circular knitting machines, the combination of a cylinder and an extended
base or projection tongued or grooved, substantially as herein described and
according to Figs. 3, and 7, of the accompanying drawing.
2. In circular knitting machines, the combination of a machine bed with tongues
or grooves or flanges loose or fixed, on or near to the inner step of the bed, such
tongues grooves or flanges may be fixed and form part of the aforesaid cylinder and
bed, or, they may be independent, substantially as herein described.
3. In circulur kuitting inuchines, a machine knitting needle with a solid butt and
stem stamped in one piece, substantially as herein described.
Dated this 7th day of January 1895.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicants.