AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR SEWING GLOVES
Year: 1872

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alexander Browne at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th
March 1872. A communication from abroad by Niels Nörholm, of
Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark.
I, ALEXANDER BROWNE, of the Firm of Browne and Company, Patent
Agents, of 85, Gracechurch Street, in the City of London, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR
SEWING GLOVES," a communication from abroad by Niels Nörholm, of
Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark, to be as follows:-
The improved machine is in the form of an oblong square made of
cast iron with a cover and projecting base on which scales are to be
placed. Over these scales two axles or bars are passed through holes
formed through the front part of the machine and the rear part of the
square, these bars may be moved backwards or forwards by forks which
are fastened round the bars and clasp, two eccentric discs fastened to an
axis, the two discs run in holes formed through the lateral pieces of the
When this wheel is moved
square and are moved round by a wheel.
round the bars will at the same time be pushed horizontally to and fro

page_text: as much as the movement of the eccentric discs require. To one of the
aforesaid bars a needle is fastened by a clamp. The edge of the skin
of which the glove is to be made is pinched fast between the before-
mentioned scales. The other bar, namely, the, catch bar at the same
time moves the catch to and fro over the edge of the scales and that of
the skin, and the bar is caused to move a little round, up and down, and
also forwards and backwards. The catch must by these means sink
down under the needle in the scale catching herewith its point, the
noose made by the needle in going back thereby lifting the noose over
the edge of the skin, whereupon it sinks down slightly into the scale
where it retains the noose until the point of the needle in going forwards
has passed it; at length the catch rises, following the forward movement
of the needle exactly over the edge of the skin, where on arriving it lets
go the noose, then it passes again down under the needle to catch the
next noose, and so on in succession. The above-mentioned movement
of the bar is made by a fork which moves the bar forwards and
backwards being pierced through lengthwise so that the bar can move
easily round; the fork is moved by the aid of two nuts screwed on the bar.
The turning round movement is effected by the aid of a double inclined
plane upon which rests one end of a pin passed through the bar, the
other end of the pin is forced upwards by a spring, the consequence of
which is that the bar must move exactly in accordance with the shape
of the inclined plane. By these means the catch sinks in the scale
exactly as much as is required to come under the needle and catch its
noose and that in going back it rises exactly over the edge and sinks
only as low into the scale as is required to put the noose round the
point of the needle. The materials to be sewn must of course on
this improved machine, as on any other glove sewing machines, be in
accordance with the desired distance between the stitches. This may
be effected in different ways on different sewing machines. On this
improved glove sewing machine it is carried out in the following
manner-On the scale (which besides pinching the glove moves the
materials) there is a tap passing through the base projecting on the
front side of the square of the machine; on the lower part of this tap is
screwed fast a cog wheel whose teeth take into a screw.. This screw
is fastened on the axis situate between the eccentrics. At each revolu-
tion of this axis the scale when the needle has left the skin is moved
exactly as much as the length of the stitch.
round on a tap the movement of both scales
The scale being also turned
serves to move forward the

page_text: materials to be sewed. The scale is fastened on the axis, whose lower
part terminates in a bent lever which is forced down by a strong spring,
and thus pinches the edge of the scale. By connecting the angle lever
with a step you may cause the scales to approach each other or recede
by pressure of the foot.