Improvements in Pattern Selecting and Jacquard Card Punching Machines.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 20th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pattern Selecting and Jacquard Card Punching
Machines.
I FRANK WILKINSON, Beeston Hall, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, Lace Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My improvements embody three machines, first, a pattern selecting machine,
second, a machine provided with selecting needles to which ends of groups of
strings are attached, the other ends of the strings being connected to the selecting
needles of a Jacquard card punching machine, third, a Jacquard card punching
machine.
The first machine consists of two end standards and two or more intermediate
standards connected at the bottom by tie rods, and at the top by one or more tie
bars. Between each pair of standards the tie bar is provided at the back with a
vertically slotted metal trick sley, and at the front with a like trick sley carrying
at the bottom a grooved bar the front flanges of which are perforated vertically to
correspond with, the sley bar above them. Behind the tie bar the standards
support two horizontally perforated sley plates, through one sley selecting strings
are passed, and through the other sley the strings and the back ends of horizontal
selecting needles slide. These needles also slide and are free to rise and fall in the
slotted trick sleys carried by the tie bar.
Beneath each selecting needle is a short vertical needle free to rise and fall in
the vertical' perforations of the grooved bar before named.
The front end of each horizontal selecting needle terminates in a hook which
engages with a horizontally sliding plate except when it is lifted clear of the plate
by the upper end of one of the short vertical wires which rise and fall in the
slotted trick sley, and the vertical perforations of the grooved bar before named.
In front of the grooved bar the standards are slotted to allow a roller to rise and
fall, on this roller disks are capable of adjustment, the circumference of each disk
has pins projecting from it which engage with perforations in a sheet of zinc or
other metal on which the required pattern has been drafted. The drafting of
which may be effected as described in the Complete Specification of a Patent
granted to Peter Pearson and Albert. Godward for Improved Machinery
and Apparatus applicable to Jacquard Card Punching Machines No. 7953
May 13-1889, or by other equivalent means.
The perforated sheet is held clear of the roller by a rod at the back and another
at the front of the roller, the sheet being held down on the front rod by a third
rod above it. The rods are carried by and the roller revolves in bearing brackets
each provided with a stud and truck engaging with a grooved cam which causes
the bearing brackets, rods and roller to rise and fall.
The grooved cams are carried by a shaft revolving in bearings secured to the
standards. By the side of each grooved cam is a cam which actuates a truck
bearing rocking lever, one arm of which is slotted to receive a bearing block
carried by and free to turn on an axle pin carried by the end of the horizontal
sliding plate before named. The lever is held to the cam by a spring hooked on
the back end. The cam shaft is caused to revolve by toothed gearing connecting
it to the main shaft of the third machine. One end of the roller carrying the
adjustable disks is provided with a ratchet toothed wheel which is partly revolved
at each revolution of the cam shaft by a driver rocking on an axle carried by a
rocking lever operated by a cam, on the cam shaft, the ratchet wheel being retained
by a stop lever.
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page_text: The reverse end of the disk carrying roller is provided with a grooved disk
clasped by a break strap.
The second machine consists of standards supporting an horizontal sliding grid,
the blades of which engage with the unselected front hooked ends of selecting
needles, these have their back ends attached by strings to the selecting needles of
à Jacquard card punching machine.
The selecting needles of the second machine each engage with a vertical needle
which may be attached to a string connected to the back end of a needle of the
first machine. The sliding grid is moved to and fro by means of levers secured to
a rocking shaft provided with a lever attached to the front end of a connecting
link having its front end slotted and carrying a truck operated by a cam on the
main shaft of a Jacquard card punching machine.
The third machine consists of a Jacquard card punching machine provided with
horizontal selecting needles and vertical punches as described in the Complete
Specification of a Patent granted to William Martin and William Truswell
Martin for "A Machine for the Combined and more Speedy Process of Selecting
and Punching Patterns in Jacquard Cards" No. 6389, May 2nd 1887. To the
selecting needles the strings of the second machine are attached. Or the strings
of the second machine may be attached to the selecting needles of any ordinary
Jacquard card punching machine.
By the employment of machines combined as above described I am enabled to
dispense with reading the pattern from the draft to insert selecting lashes, and with
the attendant to change the lashes at the punching machine. And also with one
or more attendants at a separate punching machine.
Dated this Eighteenth day of January 1892.
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pattern Selecting and Jacquard Card Punching
Machines.
I FRANK WILKINSON of Beeston Hall, Beeston, Nottinghamshire Lace
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
My improvements embody three machines.
1st. A pattern selecting machine.
2nd. A machine provided with selecting needles to which ends of groups of
strings are attached, the other ends of the strings being connected to the selecting
needles of a Jacquard card punching machine.
3rd. A Jacquard card punching machine.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figures 1 to 6, 6ª, 6, 7 and 8 illustrate the first machine.
Figures 9, 9, 10, 11 and 12 illustrate the second machine.
Figure 13 shows a side view of the toothed gearing, cams and links employed
to connect the first and second machines with a Jacquard card punching machine,
and
Figure 14 one of the horizontal selecting needles employed in the punching
machine.
Similar figures and letters of reference designate corresponding parts in the
different figures where necessary.
Figure 1 is a left end view of the reading apparatus.
Figure 2 is a front view of the left and central divisions of the apparatus,
showing in outline certain toothed gearing and a shaft A hereafter referred to.

page_text: Figure 3 is an enlarged front view of the upper part of the left division.
Figure 4 an enlarged front view of the upper part of the right division.
Figure 5 is an enlarged sectional detail view of the upper part of the right
division.
Figures 6 and 6A are full sized sectional views of some of the operating parts in
each division of the apparatus.
Figures 6" 7 and 8 are full sized views of portions of the apparatus, shown
separately and severally referred to hereinafter.
The first machine consists of two end standards and two intermediate standards 1
connected at the bottom by a tie rod 2 (shown at Figures 1 and 2) and at the top
by two tie rods 2 and three ties bars 3 (shown at Figures 1 to 6). Between each
pair of standards the tie bar is provided at the back with a vertically slotted
sley 4, and at the front with a like sley carrying at the bottom a grooved bar 5, the
front flanges of which are perforated vertically to correspond with the sley above
them. Behind the tie bar 3 the standards support two horizontally perforated
sley plates 6 and 7 (shown at Figure 5 and a front view of portion of each sley
plate at Figure 7). Through the sley 6 selecting strings 8 are passed their front
ends being passed through the lower perforations in the sley 7 and tied to the
lower bend of horizontal selecting needles 9, the back ends of the needles passing
through the upper perforations in the sley 7. These needles also slide and are
free to rise and fall in the slotted sleys 4, beneath cach selecting needle is a short
vertical needle 10 (shown in side view at Figure 6 and a front view at Figure 6)
free to rise and fall in the vertical perforations of the grooved bar 5. The front
end of each horizontal selecting needle 9, terminates in a hook which engages with
a horizontally sliding plate 11 except when it is lifted clear of the plate, by the
vertical needle 10 beneath it being raised by the following means.
The four standards are slotted vertically at 12, and 12, in the slots 12 bearings
slide to allow a roller 13 to rise and fall, on this roller between each pair of
standards a pair of disks 14 arc capable of adjustment to or from each other, the
circumference of each disk has pins 14° projecting from it which engage with
perforations near the edges of a sheet of zinc or other metal 15 on which the
required pattern has been drafted.
The draughting of the pattern on the perforated sheet of metal is effected by
the draughtsman employing a moist compound, consisting of flake while ground up
with gum arabic or other suitable cement and water, which being allowed to dry.
sets hard filling up the perforations where required.
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When the draughting is quite dry and hard the perforated plate is ready to be
placed under the vertical needles 10 of the first machine, the compound filling the
perforations in the plate as the plate rises" lift the vertical needles and raise the
selecting needles 9 into the position 9ª to prevent them engaging with the sliding
plate 11, and the perforations not filled allow the vertical needles to pass
through leaving the selecting needles down in position to be moved by the sliding
plate 11.
The perforated sheet 15 is held clear of the roller 13 by a rod 15° at the back
and another at the front of the roller, the sheet being held down by two other
rods 15 above it.
The rods 15 and 15 are carried by and the roller 13 revolves in four bearings
brackets 16 each provided with a stud and truck 162, (shown at Figures 3, 4
and 5) each truck engages with a grooved cam 17 which cause the brackets, rods,
and roller to rise and fall, the lower ends of the brackets 16 each form a fork
which clips the boss of the cam 17. The ends of the lower rods 15ª are carried
by the upper forked ends of brackets 16 capable of adjustment vertically on the
brackets 16 to allow the rods 15° to be lowered and give room for the insertion or
withdrawal of the perforated plates 15.
To prevent any sideway movement of the perforated plates and to ensure the
pins 14 carried by the disks 14 engaging with the perforations near the edges of
the plates, each edge is held on to a disk by the upper part of a bent lever 15°

page_text: (shown at Figure 6) pressing upon it, the lever is slotted for a portion of its length
to admit of the passage of the points of the pins 14" which project through the
perforations near the edge of the plate, the lower part of the lever 15 clips.the
edge of the plate, and passes underneath it terminating in a hook engaging with
the upper end of a coiled spring 15d the lower end of each spring is attached to a
rod 16 carried by the lower ends of the adjustable brackets 16".
Figure 8 shows an over view of portion of one edge of a perforated plate and
the relative position of a pair of disks 14 carried by the roller 13.
The cams 17 are carried by a shaft 18 revolving in bearings secured to the
standards, the shaft is caused to revolve by toothed gearing 18 (shown only in
outline at Figures 1 and 2 the teeth being the same as shown at Figure 13)
connecting a main shaft A.
By the side of each cam 17 within the right and left standards is a cam 19 which
actuates a truck bearing lever 19", rocking on an axle secured in the standard, the
upper end of the lever is slotted to receive a bearing block carried by and free to
turn on an axle pin 19" secured to the end of the horizontal sliding plate 11, the
truck is held to the cam by a spring 19 hooked to it and the standard.
"
The left end of the roller 13 is provided with a ratchet toothed wheel 20 (shown
in front view at Figure 3) moved by a driver 21 on an axle carried by a lever 22
rocking on the roller 13, the lever being operated by a cam 23 on the left end of
the cam shaft.
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The ratchet toothed wheel is retained by a stop lever 24 carried by a bracket 25
secured to a bearing 26 sliding in the vertical slot 12 of the. left end standard, a
similar bearing slides in the vertical slot 12" of the right end standard these bearings
are each connected by an axle 27 (shown at Figure 6) to one of the end brackets 16.
The right end of the roller 13 carries a grooved disk 28 clasped by a break
strap 29 (shown in front view at Figure 4 and by dotted lines at Figure 5)
provided with a spring at the front and carried at the back by an axle pin 29³
projecting from a bearing 26 sliding in the vertical slot 12" of the right end
standard, the break strap prevents the roller 13 and ratchet wheel 20 from being
over driven.
The above arrangement allows the four bearings and roller 13, ratchet wheel 20,
driver 21, lever 22, stop dever 24, brackets 25, bearings 26, axles 27 and 29,
grooved disk 28 and the break strap 29 to rise and fall with the brackets 16, at each
revolution of the cam shaft 18. Each succeeding revolution places the next row
of perforations in the sheet 15 exactly under the row of vertical needles 10 ready to
make a fresh selection.
A left end view of the second machine is shown at Figures 9. and 9. and a front
view at Figures 11 and 12 consists of two standards 1 supporting a grid 2 provided
with horizontal blades 2 from each end of the grid an arm 26 projects cach
carrying a rod 2° (shown by dotted lines at Figure .9) each rod slides horizontally
in two bearings on the inner side of a bracket 3 secured to the standard. These
brackets support a vertical slotted sley 3ª,(shown only at Figure 9) in which the
looped back ends of selecting, needles 4 slide. Each selecting needle is hooked at
its front end to engage with one of the blades 2" when held up to it, each selecting
needle.4 also lies within the bent portion of a vertical needle 5 (shown the full size
at Figure 10) the lower end of the needle passes through a horizontal sley 3b and
the upper end through a sley 3º each supported by the bracket 3. The lower end of
the needle 5 is hooked and provided with a spring 5 beneath the sley 3,-this
spring pulls the needle down and holds the selecting needle 4 clear of the grid
blade 2 except when it is pulled up into the position shown at Figure 9 by the back
end of a selecting string 8 attached to, the upper end of the needle 5. The front
end of the string after passing over one of a series of wires 3 being tied. to. the
lower bend of one of the selecting, needles 9 of the first machine before described.
The looped back end of each selecting needle 4 has one, or more. strings 4ª tiod, to
it, the other end of each string is looped and hooked upon one end of a selecting
needle 5 shown at Figure 14 of a Jacquard card punching machine, as described in

page_text: the Specification of a Patent granted to William Martin and William Truswell
Martin for a machine for the combined and more speedy process of selecting and
punching patterns in jacquard cards No. 6389 May 2nd 1887.
The to and fro movements of the grid 2 with its blades 2ª is effected by the
outer end of each arm 2b forming an axle engaging with the front end of a link 2ª
its back end engaging with an axle 2 capable of adjustment in the upper end of a
lever 6 secured to a shaft 7 rocking in bearings attached to the standards. The
shaft is provided with two levers 7* attached to the front ends of connecting
links 7 operated by cams 9 on the main shaft of a Jacquard card punching apparatus
hereafter described. The back end of the links carry cach a truck held to its cam
by a coiled spring 2 hooked to the arm 20 and the side of the standard 1.
The shaft A which actuates the toothed gearing 18" of the first machine carries
a toothed bevel wheel A' at its back end "shown at Figure 14"driven by gearing
connecting it to a wheel A2 carried by the main shaft C shown in Martins
Specification this shaft also carries two cams 9 which operate the links 7" of the
second machine.
The combined movements of the first and second machines and the punching
machine are as follows. When the selecting needles 9 of the first machine are
moved towards the front by the sliding plate 11, the strings 8 pull up the vertical
needles 5 of the second machine lifting the hooked ends of the needles 4 to
engage with the blades 2 of the grid, as the grid moves toward the front the
strings 4* attached to the horizontal selecting needles of the punching machine
draw the needle away from the tops of the vertical punches which are lifted up
by the card as the punch plates a a rise leaving the card unpunched. The
unselected needles 5 which remain over the vertical punches force them through
the card as the punch plates rise. A card being punched each time the draughted
sheet of metal 15 makes a selection.
By the employment of machines operating automatically as above described I am
enabled to dispense with reading the pattern from the draft to insert selecting
lashes in a reading machine, and with an attendant to change the lashes at a
punching machine, and also with one or more attendants at a separate punching
machine.
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 pattern selecting machine. The combination of the whole of the parts
illustrated by the Figures 1 to 6, 6A, 6B, 7, and 8, substantially as described.
2. The combination of a machine provided with selecting needles and strings
illustrated by the Figures 9, 9, 10, 11, and 12, substantially as described.
3. The combination of gearing 18", shaft A carrying a wheel A' driven by
gearing connecting it to a wheel A2 on the main shaft C of a Jacquard card punching
machine and the cams 9 which operate the links 7b of the second machine sub-
stantially as described for the purposes specified.
4. The employment of combined machines operating automatically as described
for reading selecting and punching jacquard cards direct from a draughted pattern.
Dated this Nineteenth day of October 1892.
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.