Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Knitted Fabrics.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Knitted Fabrics.
We, GEORGE PADMORE, Junior, Hosiery Manufacturer, and WILLIAM
CHARLES PEET, Manager, both of Rutland Street, Leicester, 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 object of this invention is to avoid the seaming or joining together of
different coloured fabrics to produce "vertical" or parti-coloured jerseys, combina-
tions, tights and other similar garments or articles and the unsightly bulk or
thickness of the fabric where "verticals" are made by joining the two colours
together with two threads of different colours or joining needles.
This we accomplish by making a locking stitch at the junction of the colours or
pieces.
The term "vertical" is a trade term applied to jerseys and similar garments in
which the different coloured stripes are arranged in vertical rows, and this
expression is employed in this Specification to indicate this description of parti-
coloured garment or material whether the rows run vertically or horizontally and
are continuous or divided into squares the invention relating to the joining together
of the various stripes squares or other shaped fabrics or pieces without removing
them from the machine or frame as is at present the custom.
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying
drawings in which
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a thread layer or carrier constructed according
to this invention and
Figure 2 is a perspective view drawn to larger scale than Figure 1, of one of the
movable stops thereof.
To make a "vertical" stripe we use thread-layers or carriers of ordinary con-
struction but with a new racking arrangement consisting of a racking plate A and
movable stops B racking at the same time both ends of the thread layer or carrier
stops in the same direction either to right or left hand as required and with extra
tubes H for threads of different colours. Either thread-layers or ordinary carriers
can be used.
The strips composing "verticals" and also squares may be worked any required
width, or size by arranging the tubes or yarn guides H at proper distances; and
as many different colours as there are tubes H can be used if required.
On the thread layer or carrier plate E we fix at desired distances apart yarn
tubes or guides H of ordinary construction placing in each tube the colour of yarn
required.
At the front of the thread layers or carriers is attached a racking plate A on
which the regulating stops or ends B are secured by screws or equivalent means
and to this plate A is attached a handle C and spring so that both ends of the
thread layer stops can be racked in one direction either to the right or left hand as
required.
In the racking plate A are formed notches, one of which is marked A¹ in
Figure 1 into which fits the spring or catch A² to hold the plate A in position after
it has been racked.
The racking plate A is racked to right or left by the handle C connected thereto
by a pin.
The thread layers are moved across the needles to lay the threads in the usual
way by the handle D and the tubes H are secured on the plate or bar E provided
with bearings F sliding on rod G.
If the thread layers or carriers with the various tubes H. of different coloured

page_text: yarns were to be operated in the usual manner the result would be a number of
various coloured strips of selvedged fabric, and the object of our invention is to
join the various coloured selvedges together in the weaving.
The needles may be fed by thread layers or ordinary fashioning carriers on any
kind of flat knitting machines simply adding the requisite number of tubes H to
make the desired width of fabric.
To join the selvedge loops together at the finish of each course we rack the
plate A with the stops B affixed to it the space of one needle alternately left and
right, thus feeding each selvedge needle with yarn from different tubes or carriers
each course, and so interlock first one coloured loop and then another on this
selvedge needle thus joining or interweaving the two fabrics or pieces of fabric.
To make squares we tie in the different coloured yarns according to the pattern
required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. The locking stitch for joining the two fabrics or pieces.
2. A vertical or similar fabric the joining of the various parts of which is
effected without materially increasing the thickness or bulk of the fabric substan-
tially as specified.
3. A vertical or similar fabric in which the selvedge loops are interwoven or
locked substantially as specified.
4. The interlacing or locking of two or more selvedge loops for the purpose of
joining two fabrics or pieces in a vertical or similar fabric substantially as
specified.
5. In the manufacture of a "vertical" or similar fabric the employment of the
special racking motion substantially as and for the purpose specified.
6. The method of feeding or laying the threads to interlock or interweave over
one or more needles at the edges or selvedges of two fabrics or pieces by laying
threads from different tubes or guides alternately on the outside or selvedge needle
or needles thus joining the fabrics or pieces without additional bulk.
Dated this Thirteenth day of August 1891.
GEORGE PADMORE, JUNIOR.
WILLIAM CHARLES PEET.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicants.
GEORGE PADMORE, JUNIOR.
WILLIAM CHARLES PEET.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicants.