provements in Fringing Machines for Producing Ornamental Stitches and Edging or Fringing
Year: 1888

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Improvements in Fringing Machines for Producing Ornamental
Stitches and Edging or Fringing
I, WILLIAM FAIRWEATHER of Sackville Street, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention
as follows
to be
The improvements which are the subject of this invention relate to fringing
machines that are employed for the purpose of producing ornamental stitches and
edging or fringing on, or extended from, the edges of fabric to be ornamented, and
the object of this invention is to obtain increased speed in working, with reduced
amount of friction, by dispensing with the long cam, cam slide, and shaper plate, such
as are usually attached to bed of said fringing machines
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In this invention I place a bevel wheel on top longitudinal shaft thus bevel wheel gears
into another placed on a short transverse shaft to which a disc or stud plate is attached,
and on the face of said stud plate adjustable studs are fixed I connect this disc to an
adjustable driving link by means of said studs The relative position of disc with this
link which works horizontally is determined by the length of fringe or edging
required The opposite end of adjustable link I attach to lower end of a swing link
which is suspended from upper part of head of machine, I form the upper head of this
swing link with a boss, and to this boss I attach a corder, which is suspended from said
boss by means of set screws, and by these means said corder 19 permitted to have free
Loscillation On one side of lower part of head of machine I attach shaper plate
The corder being suspended freely by the herein above described set screws, is kept
pressed against shaper plate by means of a compression spring, which causes lower
end of said corder to pass and work round needle and hook by these means any
desired form of edging or fringing may be produced For the purpose of regulating
the work I place on the bottom longitudinal shaft a small tappet which actuates a
transverse lever that is attached at one end to a spindle and kept in position by a
spring I connect the presser to one end of said spindle I form the presser with a
stud or pin which falls into holes in needle plate These holes are arranged so as to

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The presser is actuated by the hereinbefore men-
tioned tappet, which gives rocking motion to spindle to which said presser is connected
In a modification of my invention, by means of cam motion on the herein before
mentioned disc, I cause a lever to act on the presser at suitable intervals and thus
regulate the work
Stitches and Edging or Fringing
I, WILLIAM FAIKWEATHER of Sackville Street, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster Engineer 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
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The improvements which are the subject of this invention relate to fringing
machines that are employed for the purpose of producing ornamental stitches, and
edging or fringing on, or extended from the edges of fabric to be ornamented and the
object of this invention is to obtain increased speed in working, with reduced amount
of friction by dispensing with the long cam, cam slide, and slotted shaper plate such as 2
are usually attached to bed of said fringing machines In order more clearly to describe
my invention I have annexed hereunto three sheets of drawings In the several views
therein shown similar letters refer to similar parts
Fig 1 is a side view of a fringing machine such as is hereinafter described Fig 2
is plan of the same Fig 3 18 plan with the upper part of machine removed showing?
the bottom longitudinal shaft with the tappets and levers for regulating the work
Fig 4 is an end view of machine In this invention I place a bevel wheel a on top
longitudinal shaft b this bevel wheel gears into bevel wheel c which is placed on a
short transverse shaft or stud d to which a disc or stud plate e is attached
On the face of said stud plate e, I form holes fin suitable positions in which adjust-
able studs q are fixed I connect the disc e to an adjustable driving link / by means of
stud g
The relative position of holes fin the disc e and the connection therewith of
the link h which works horizontally is determined by the length of fringe or edging
required the opposite end of adjustable link h I attach by means of stud, to lower
end of a swing link k which is suspended from upper part of head 9 of machine I a
form the upper head of this swing link with a boss land to the boss / I attach a corder m

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which is suspended from said boss by means of set screw n by these means said
corder m is permitted to have free oscillation On one side of lower part of head 9 of
machine I attach a shaper plate o The corder m being suspended freely by the
herein above described set screw n is kept pressed against shaper plate o by means of
a compression spring p, said shaper plate o and compression spring p causing lower
end m of corder m to pass and work round needle and hook I place on the
bottom longitudinal shaft sa small tappet t This tappet actuates the lever u thus
giving transverse motion to the bar which closes the barbed hook said bar being
returned to its original position by means of the spring w the bottom hook x 18
worked in combination with the bar by means of the tappet y acting on lever
thereby imparting rocking motion to the bar z¹ I connect the foot ax to bottom end of
leg a The foot a* which is of the ordinary form retains the material or work in
progress in position on the plate 93 and also causes said material to be moved forward
according to the stitch desired The foot ax is moved backwards and forwards in the
direction indicated by arrows on sheets 2 and 3 of drawings Figs 2 and 4 by means
of the cam 6x which is attached to shaft b, and the spring b¹ which is attached to leg a¹
at a² and to head of machine at acting alternately on the leg a¹ which is suspended
at ex from upper part of head 9 of machine In order to give a quick rise and full
motion to the presser I place on the bottom longitudinal shaft & the tappet s¹ which
I shape in the manner shown on drawings The tappet s' acts on the lever t' to which
the spindle is connected which is thus actuated vertically and causes the presser (*
which is attached to spindle * to be raised and depressed at intervals said presser being
kept in position by springs. When the swing link m is brought into the position
shown by dotted lines in Fig 1 on drawings by means of the aforesaid link h the presser t
is raised by means of the spring which acts on the spindle in combination with
the tappet Said tappet & causes the presser t' to descend before the return of swing
link to its original position by these means the point catches the thread and
forms a loup a forward movement is imparted to the point and to the fringe in
progress of formation by the oscillation of the bar t¹ caused by contact of said bar
with the projections on tappet s¹ By these means any desired form of edging or
fringing may be produced
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1st In a machine that is employed for producing ornamental statches and edging
or fringing, the combination and arrangement of the several parts forming said machine
for the purpose and substantially in the manner as heiein before described and
illustrateu
2nd In a machine that is employed for producing ornamental stitches and edging
or fringing the use of a pressei tappet that is constructed in the form shown and
marked s' on drawings for the purpose of giving a quick rise and fall motion to presser
substantially as herein before described
Dated this 18th dox of Jenn 1884