Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Gloves.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Dec., 1897-Accepted, 2nd Apr.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Gloves.
We, WILLIAM WALKER, of 2, Westbourne Street, Leicester, Glove Hand, and
ROBERT KENDRICK, of Kirby Muxloe, in the County of Leicester, Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of knitted gloves and has particular
reference to the machinery or apparatus employed therein.
As at present carried out, the said gloves are knitted in sections on different
frames, the hand fabric being knitted upon one frame and then transferred to
a fingering frame to have the fingers knitted thereto as is well understood.
This transfer of the fabric as referred to, is effected by means of a device con-
taining a handle and a number of points which the operator holds in his hand.
Upon the points of this device a number of hand fabrics are placed the latter
being removed from the knitting frame in the usual way.
The operator then places the said points over the needles in one division of the
fingering frame and presses the loops of one of the fabrics off the points on to the
needles.
The device is then removed from that division and placed over the needles of
the next and a hand fabric transferred thereto, and this process is repeated, trans-
ferring the hand fabrics one at a time successively, until the whole of the divisions
are supplied when the frame is set in motion and the fingers knitted in the usual
manner.
Now the present invention has for its object to transfer the hand fabrics to the
whole of the divisions in the frame simultaneously, or nearly so.
For this purpose our invention consists in providing a fingering frame with a
bar containing a series of groups of covering points, the said series of groups being
equivalent in number to the divisions of the frame.
This point carrying bar may have bearings in brackets extending from the
knitting frame and is capable of being moved up and down and to and fro therein.
To use the said bar as herein before referred to, the hand fabrics are placed one
upon each group of points, the bar is then moved so as to place the points over the
needles and the operator may then pass along pressing the fabrics from the points
to the needles in quick succession, or a slide may be arranged in connection with
the needles so that upon the operator actuating it, it will press the whole of the
fabrics off the points on to the needles simultaneously at one operation.
A spring or springs may be arranged in connection with the points so that
when they are placed over the needles they will be pressed into the eye or groove
thereof.
Modifications in detail of the device may be made without departing from the
main lines of the invention.
11 1 Μου 1907

page_text: improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Gloves.
We, WILLIAM WALKER, of 2, Westbourne Street, Leicester, Glove Hand, and
ROBERT KENDRICK, of Kirby Muxloe, in the County of Leicester, Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of knitted gloves and has particular
reference to the machinery or apparatus employed therein.
As at present carried out, the said gloves are knitted in sections on different
frames, that is to say the hand fabric is knitted upon one frame and then trans-
ferred to a fingering frame to have the fingers knitted thereto as is well under-
.stood.
Heretofore this transfer of the fabric as above mentioned has been effected by
means of a device containing a handle and a number or single group of points
which the operator holds in his hand.
Upon the points of this device a number of knitted glove hand fabrics are
placed or accumulated, the latter being removed from the hand knitting frame in
the usual way.
The operator then places the said group of points over the needles in one division
of the fingering frame and presses the loops of one of the said hand fabrics off the
said points on to the knitting needles.
The device is then removed from that division and placed over the needles in
the next division and a hand fabric transferred thereto, and this process is repeated,
transferring the hand fabrics one at a time successively, until the whole of the
divisions are supplied when the frame is set in motion and the fingers knitted in
the usual manner.
Now the present invention has for its object to transfer the hand fabrics to the
whole of the divisions in the frame simultaneously, or nearly so.
The invention will be understood from the following further description in
reference to the accompanying drawing in which,
Figure 1 is a plan of a transfer bar for use in connection with glove knitting
frames and constructed according to this invention.
Figure 2 is a section on the line X X of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a section on the line Z Z of the same figure.
Figure 4 is an elevation of a fragment of the grooved slide bar. Figure 5 is an
end elevation of the transfer bar supported in its operative position in a spring
attached to an arm on the knitting frame.
Figures 2, 3, and 4 are drawn to a larger scale than Figure 1.
A represents a bar the length of which is generally the same as that of the
straight bar glove fingering frame with which it is used.
The said bar is provided at each end with a trunnion A¹ which rests in a loop
in the end of a spring A fixed by a screw A5 to the end of an arm or bracket A
projecting from the knitting frame. The springs A+ are so arranged that when
the trunnions are placed therein the covering points rest on the needles A7 with
just sufficient pressure to force the heads of the needles into the grooves of the
covering points as indicated in Figure 5.
The bar A has fixed thereon at intervals by screw bolts B₁ a series of point car-
rying plates B grooved transversely at intervals to receive the rear parts of the
stems of covering points C.
A single groove B³ Figure 2 runs longitudinally in the bar to receive the turned
down tails C¹ of the said points.

page_text: Over the points a locking plate D is fixed by two screws D¹ passing through it
and into the point carrying plate B. The points C in each of the series of groups
are of the same gauge as the needles A7 in the fingering frame and the number
of groups of points in the series is equivalent to the number of divisions in the
knitting frame.
It is obvious therefore that if a hand fabric as E Figure 2 is suspended from each
of the groups of points and the latter are placed over the needles in the knitting
frame in the well understood manner, the operator by means of his hand can push
these hand fabrics off each group of points on to the needles in a fingering frame
one after another in rapid succession, which operation will as is obvious be much
more quickly performed than the usual hand method herein before described.
The invention also contemplates the transfer simultaneously and at one opera-
tion from the whole series of groups of points to the needles of the knitting frame,
of the hand fabrics suspended from the said points. For this purpose we employ
a slide bar F provided on its upper edge with grooves F¹ in which the stenis of
the points may rest, the said grooves extending from end to end of the bar as shown
most clearly in Figures 1 and 4.
This grooved slide bar is supported on two arms G one near each end thereof
the said arms being fixed by screw bolts G¹ to the bar A as shown clearly in
Figures 1 and 2. The upper edge of these arms is smoothly rounded as indicated
so as to offer as little frictional resistance as possible to the movement of the slide
bar.
A rod H also fixed by screw bolts H¹ to the bar A and passing through a hole
in the slide bar Facts as a guide to the movements of the latter. Spiral springs
one near each end of the bar A and connected thereto by hooks as shown tend to
keep the slide bar normally up against the point carrying bar B.
The point carrying bar B near each end has a hole passing through in which
is located the reduced rounded end of a link J whose other end is movably pivotted
within a slot K' in the upper end of a curved lever K fulcrummed at K2 to a de-
pending arm A fixed by a bolt A³ to the bar A.
Upon the operator drawing towards him the part of the lever K below its ful-
crum K² the upper end of the lever causes the link J to push forwards the slide
rod Funder and towards the end of the points C as shown by the dotted line and
upon the lever K being released, the springs F2 will withdraw the slide bar F
back to its normal position.
Assuming now that a knitted glove hand fabric E is suspended from each of
the groups of points ready to be transferred to the fingering frame the operation
is as follows:
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The trunnions of the bar A are placed in the springs A* so that as hereinbefore
described each group of covering points is above the needles in each division of
the frame and each individual covering point is over and resting on a single needle,
with the head of the latter well within the groove in the underside of the covering
points as indicated in Figure 5.
The operator then takes hold of the levers K and by drawing them towards him
into the position as indicated by the dotted line in Figure 3 the slide F is pushed
forwards so that the loops hanging on the covering points are pressed off the ends
of the latter on to the needles A
The bar may then be lifted off the springs A+ and filled again ready for the
operation to be repeated, when the fingers are knitted to the hand fabrics just
transferred.
In some cases the springs F2 may be dispensed with, when the link J would be
made fast to the slide bar, so as to move to and fro with it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is: :-
1. In the manufacture of knitted gloves transferring a hand fabric to the needles

page_text: of each division of a straight bar fingering frame simultaneously at one operation.
substantially as described.
2. In the manufacture of knitted gloves the use or employment of a transfer
bar having a series of groups of covering points for transferring the hand fabrics
to the needles of a straight bar fingering frame substantially as described.
3. In the manufacture of knitted gloves the use or employment of a transfer
bar comprising a series of groups of covering points from which are suspended
a series of glove hand fabrics, a slide bar for pushing the full series of hand fabrics
off the ends of the covering points on to the needles simultaneously and one or
more levers for actuating the said slide substantially as and for the purpose
described.
4. A transfer bar comprising a series of groups of covering points, a slide bar
located under the said points, guides for the said slide and one or more levers
for actuating the said slide in the manner and for the purpose described.
5. A transfer bar comprising a series of groups of covering points a slide there-
under grooved to receive the said points, one or more levers to push the slide
forwards and one or more springs to withdraw the said slide substantially as and
for the purpose described.
6. The improved transfer bar constructed, arranged and operating substantially
in the manner and for the purpose described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
WILLIAM WALKER.
ROBERT KENDRICK.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicants.
Dated this 27th day of October 1897.
WILLIAM WALKER.
ROBERT KENDRICK.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicants.