IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LOOPED AND LACE. FABRICS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Scattergood, of Sheepshed, in the County
of Leicester, Machinist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LOOPED AND LACE.
FABRICS."
Scaled the 9th June 1874, and dated the 18th April 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Scattergood at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th April 1874.
I, DANIEL SCATTERGOOD, of Sheepshed, in the County of Leicester,
Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LOOPED AND
LACE FABRICS," to be as follows:-
A framing carries one or more sleys, in each of which one end of a
series of needle bits rock or swing. Near the opposite end of each bit
a needle is soldered or otherwise secured. The projecting ends of the
bits are moved to and fro by suitable inclines, which are moved at a

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Daniel Scattergood in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 17th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DANIEL'
SCATTERGOOD, of Sheepshed, in the County of Leicester, Machinist, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Daniel Scattergood, Her special licence
that I, the said Daniel Scattergood, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Daniel Scattergood, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY AND APPARATUS FOR THe Manufacture of LOOPED AND Lace Fabrics,”
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Daniel Scattergood,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing, under my,
or their, or one of their hands and scals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Daniel Scattergood, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings
forming part of this Specification :-
A framing carries one or more sleys, in each of which one end of a
series of needle bits rock or swing. Near the opposite end of each bit a
needle is soldered or otherwise secured. The projecting ends of the bits
are moved to and fro by suitable inclines, which are moved at a right
angle to the needles by a hand lever and a connecting rod, or by a crank

page_text: with an adjustable throw and a connecting rod. Each front incline rocks
on a pin, and is reversed by a pin on a sliding bar, operated by the lead
of the connecting rod. Behind the sleys above named are an axle bar
and arms, which carry a plate to each series of needles. These plates
can be operated by hand so as to withdraw or project the needles in the
usual way. The needles and the ends of the bits carrying them lie and
slide in sleys. In front of the needle bits is a rocking bar carrying
levers, which press back the whole of the needles not required after each
narrowing. The rest of the machine is of the usual construction.
The above constitutes a machine for making plain looped fabrics.
Secondly. In addition to the above for making ribbed looped fabrics I
employ a rocking axle bar at the back provided with levers, to the front
end of which the machine is hinged and operated by a cam on a cam
shaft.
Thirdly. For making plain or ribbed striped work, in addition to either
of the above described machines, I employ in front of the needles a
rocking frame carrying two or more thread guide slides. This frame is
operated so as to select either slide by means of a stepped cam and
ratchet wheel moved by a cam on the cam shaft.
Fourthly. For making a lace fabric I employ bars sliding in front of:
the needles, each bar being provided with fingers, each of which selects
a machine needle and presses it to the right or left, according as it is
operated upon by a wheel or jacquard.
Fifthly. For transferring ribbed looped fabrics from one series of
needles to another, I proceed as follows:-I run the fabric on to a set of
points, from which I transfer it on to another set of points having a
hook on their upper side and a recess on their lower side, and on to the
frame needles at the same time, the hooked and recessed points being
placed above. The operator then turns the points downward towards
and over the 'heads of the machine needles, thereby transferring the
remainder of the loops on to the machine needles.
Figure 1 is a front view of a machine, upon which either plain ribbed
or striped looped fabrics may be made; Figure 2 is a sectional view of the
same machine,

page_text: carried by a bracket at the back of the machine, the driver being
depressed by a cam bit N³ secured to the crank G². The traverse of each
selected slide is effected by means of a pin on the end of each slide
taking into a slot or fork of a bracket N' secured to one end of the upper
sliding bar F.
The rocking frame and thread guide slides are kept in a working
position by a weighted cord at each end which pass over pulleys carried
by the standards. The lower front bar of the machine carries bearings
in which an axle bar rocks. To this bar are secured brackets O, each of
which has a wire at the upper end, which when in the position seen in
Figures 1 and 2 prevent the latches of the machine needles as they rise
from flying up as the loops slip off. These wires at stated periods are
held clear of the thread carriers as they are traversed by the cam O¹,
seen at Figure 7.
By apparatus arranged as above described I am enabled to turn down
the wire brackets clear of the machine needles, and also to turn down
the whole of the machine clear of the frame needles, and likewise to
turn down the thread guide slides for the convenience of the operator.
When the machine is turned down I am enabled to make either plain or
striped looped fabrics, and when it is turned up a ribbed loop fabric can
be made either of one or more colors.
For making a lace fabric in addition to the above described combined
machine I employ a bar or bars P, which slide in bearings attached to
the machine needle bar, seen in Figures 4 and 8. Each bar is provided
with fingers P¹ secured thereon at regular or irregular distances, according
to the pattern required. Each finger selects a machine needle and presses
it to the right or left, according as it is operated upon by a cam P³ on
the vertical shaft H, thus causing open work to be made where a machine
needle is pressed on one side.
In addition to traversing the finger bar or bars I sometimes traverse
the whole of the machine, and the finger carrying bars attached thereto
to the right or left by means of a second cam P³ on the shaft H.
For transferring ribbed looped fabrics from one series of needles to
another I proceed as follows:-I run the fabric on to a set of points,
from which I transfer it on to another set of points, one of which is a
shewn at Figure 9 A, having a hook on their upper side and a recess

page_text: on their lower, and on to the frame needles at the same time, the
hooked and recessed points being placed above. The operator then turns
the points downward towards and over the heads of the machine
needles, thereby transferring the remainder of the loops on to the
machine needles, thus placing the required loops on both the frame
needles and the machine needles at the same time.
Having lung fully described my said Invention and the manner of
Witness,
H. W. GOUGH, C. E.,
Nottingham.
DANIEL SCATTERGOOD. (L.S.)