Improvements in Machines for Producing Ornamental Stitches and Edging or Fringing.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Sept., 1890-Accepted, 25th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Producing Ornamental Stitches and
Edging or Fringing.
I, WILLIAM FAIRWEATHER of Sackville Street Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The improvements which are the subject of this invention relate to the closer and
bottom hook in machines that are employed for producing ornamental stitches and
edging or fringing, and the object of this invention is to prevent any alteration in
the relative positions of said closer and bottom hook after they have been definitely
set for work, in consequence of screws or other fastenings becoming loose.
In this invention, in lieu of the bottom hook, and the closer which closes the
barbed hook, being formed separately, I construct aforesaid closer and bottom hook
in one piece.
On the annexed sheet of drawings, Fig. 1. is side view, Fig. 2 is front view and
Fig. 3 is plan of a combined bottom hook and closer constructed according to this
invention.
In these views a is the leg on which the bottom hook and closer are formed, and
which is attached in the ordinary way to a rocking bar: b is the bottom hook; c the
closer, both of which I form in one piece on upper part of leg a. The relative
positions of the bottom hook and closer by these means remain unalterable, and are
unaffected by friction or other causes. This combination of bottom hook and closer is
applicable either to inachines such as I have described in my application for Letters
Patent No. 1135 of 1890 or to machines of the ordinary construction.
THOMAS PRESCOTT,
Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Producing Ornamental Stitches and
Edging or Fringing.
I, WILLIAM FAIRWEATHER of Sackville Street, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster Engineer 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 :-
The improvements which are the subject of this invention relate to the closer and
bottom hook in machines that are used for producing ornamental stitches and edging
or fringing said closer being employed for the purpose of closing the barbed hook
after it has passed through the work, and the bottom hook being employed for taking
the thread from the needle to aforesaid barbed hook. The object of this invention is
to prevent any alteration in the relative position of said closer and bottom hook after
they have been definitely set for work in consequence of screws or other fastenings
becoming loose. In order more clearly to describe this my invention, I have annexed
hereunto a sheet of drawings: in the several views shown therein similar letters
refer to similar parts.
In these drawings Figs. 1 to 3 represent respectively side view, front view, and
plan of a combined bottom hook and closer according to this invention: a is the leg,
on the upper part of which I form the bottom hook 6 and the closer c, said bottom
hook and closer are thus formed in one piece on upper part of leg a which I attach in

page_text: the ordinary way to a rocking bar d. The shape of the bottom hook b and closer c
may be either as represented in these views, or they may he formed as shown in
Figs. 1 to 3 or of other preferred shape: Fig. 4 is front view and Fig. 5 is side
view showing this combined bottom hook and closer attached to the rocking bar of a
fringing machine, which may be actuated in the ordinary manner or in the way I
have described in the specification of my invention for which Letters Patent have
been granted to me numbered 1135 of 1890. In these views b is the bottom hook ;
c the closer, d the rocking bar in which the leg a of closer and bottom hook is
fittede is part of frame of machine; the barbed hook. By these means the
relative positions of the bottom hook and closer remain unalterable and areun affected
by friction or other causes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
In a machine that is employed for producing ornamental stitches and edging or
fringing, the use of a bottom hook and closer either of the shape shown on drawings
or other preferred form, which are made in one piece, and attached to the rocking bar
of machine in the ordinary manner by means of the leg a or lower part of said com-
bined bottom hook and closer, for the purpose and in the manner substantially as
herein before described.
Dated this 2nd dow of Santamban 1800
THOMAS
PRESCOTT,
Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.