Improved Apparatus applicable to Circular Knitting Machines.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 11th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 20th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus applicable to Circular Knitting Machines.
We WILLIAM SAMUEL WARD, Factory Manager, and HERBERT FRANCIS
LANCASHIRE, Manager, both in the employment of James Blount Lewis and Sons,
Stanford Street, Nottingham, Hosiery Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Instead of operating the reversing clutch boss of circular knitting machines
known as the Aiken machine by hand, we employ an intermediate toothed wheel to
connect the main driving wheel of the machine with a third toothed wheel the
same diameter as the main driving wheel. The third wheel is provided with an
eccentric pin carrying a driver which engages with the ratchet teeth of a fourth
wheel provided with two cams which engage with stud carried by the outer end
of a rocking lever, the inner end of the lever carries a stud which takes into the
groove of the reversing clutch boss.
One cam throws the boss outwards while the heel and toe of the hose or half
hose are being made, the other cam throws the boss inwards while making
circular work.
The fourth wheel carries a third cam which starts the narrowing apparatus by
operating a sliding lever when required.
The rocking lever before described is also provided with a link which rocks a
clutch lever for traversing the switch usually employed to lower the needles placed
out of work while the narrowings are being made.
By such arrangement of parts the machine will make hose, or half hose
automatically without stopping.
Instead of the ratchet toothed cam bearing wheel we may employ a wheel
provided with bearings for a studded chain or chains for operating the rocking and
sliding levers to vary the length of the hose or half hose.
Dated this Eighteenth day of April 1891.
11. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus applicable to Circular Knitting Machines.
We WILLIAM SAMUEL WARD, Factory Manager and HERBERT FRANCIS
LANCASHIRE, Manager, both in the employment of James Blount Lewis and Sons,
Stanford Street, Nottingham, Hosiery Manufacturers, 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 :—

page_text: only at Figure 1, to connect the usual main driving wheel 2 of the machine with a
third toothed wheel 3 of the same diameter as the main driving wheel. The third
wheel is provided with an eccentric pin carrying a driver 5, engaging with the
ratchet teeth of a fourth wheel 6, provided with two cams 7 and 8, each of which
alternately engage with a forked stud 9 carried by the back end of a rocking
lever 10, the front end of the lever carries a stud which takes into the groove of
the reversing clutch boss A. The cam 7 throws the boss outwards while the heel
and toe of the hose or half hose are being made, and the cam 8 throws the boss
inwards while making circular work.
The wheel 6 is provided with a third cam 11 which starts the usual narrowing
apparatus by operating an horizontal sliding lever 12 when required.
The rocking lever 10 is also provided with a link 13 for traversing the switch 14
usually employed to lower the needles placed out of work while the narrowings
are being made.
By means of apparatus above described operating in combination with a circular
knitting machine known as the Aiken machine, hose or half hose may be made
automatically without stopping the machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
1. The construction and employment of apparatus applicable to circular knitting
machines, substantially as described for the purposes specified and illustrated in the
drawings annexed.
Data in Tonth dow of December 1901
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.