An Improved Fabric for Gloves, Gauntlets, Mittens, and similar Articles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Mar., 1888
Complete Left, 9th May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 15th June, 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fabric for Gloves, Gauntlets, Mittens, and similar
Articles.
We HENRY AUGUSTUS HAIMES, of the Firm of Thomas Haimes and Company,
Castle Mills, Melbourne, Derbyshire, Lace Manufacturers, and JOSEPH NEWBOLD,
in the employment of the said Firm, Lace Maker, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
:-
We make our improved fabric upon a warp knitting machine provided with a
vertically moving needle bar, and two guide bars, each carrying a full set of guides,
the bars being traversod by two wheels at one end of the machine, of the form
employed when making taffeta in the usual way, in addition to which we employ a
third guide bar carrying a full set of guides, this bar we cause to be traversed right
and left by the operation of the droppers of a jacquard at one end of the machine,
each of the three guide bars are supplied with threads from a separate warp beam.
When the cards passing through the jacquard are left unpunched, the guides of the
two bars first named lop their threads round the needles and make a taffeta fabric in
the usual way, while the guides of the third bar simply pass to and fro between the
needles without lapping their threads round them, the threads lying loose on the
back of the taffeta for the length required according to the number of unpunched
cards.
But when punched cards pass through the jacquard, the third bar is traversed,
the guides lapping their threads round the needles in the same way as the threads of
one of the bars first named thereby producing a thicker fabric for the required length,
the loose threads lying on the back of the fabric are either clipped off by the attendant
as they pass towards the work roller or are clipped off after the piece is taken from
the machine. Warp fabrics having portions made thicker at intervals as above
described may be employed to make gloves, gauntlets, mittens and similar articles
with the thickest portion at the end of the thumbs and tips of the fingers, or at the
arms of the gauntlets, or at the wrists of gloves or mittens.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fabric for Gloves, Gauntlets, Mittens, and similar
Articles.
We HENRY AUGUSTUS HAIMES of the firm of Thomas Haimes and Company
Castle Mills, Melbourne Derbyshire Lace Manufacturers and JOSEPH NEWBOLD in
the employment of the said firm, lace Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly describe
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
We make our improved fabric upon a warp knitting Machine provided with a
vertically moving needle bar carrying leads of needles having their beards turned
towards the back of the machine and two guide bars each being traversed by a separate
wheel at one end of the machine of either of the forms employed when making taffeta
in the usual way, in addition to the above we employ a third guide bar which we
cause to be traversed right and left, by the operation of the droppers of a jacquard at
one end of the machine, each of the three guide bars carry a full set of guides, each
bar being supplied with threads from a separate warp beam.
We arrange the bars in the following order, suppose the three bars are clear of the
needles, but between them and the front of the machine the bar having its guides
nearest to the needles we will call No. 1 bar, the intermediate No. 2 bar, and the one
nearest the front of the Machine No. 3 bar. We cause them to be traversed arranged
in the above order either of three several ways as follows:-
First. The bar No. 1 falls the distance of two needles, the guides pass through the
needles, falls one pass through the needles, rise two, pass through the needles and
rise one, then pass through the needles to their first position.
No. 2 bar rises two the guides pass through, rise one pass through, falls two, pass
through falls one then pass through the needles to their first position.
No. 3 bar when traversed by the operation of the droppers of a jacquard falls two,
tho guides pass through, fall one pass through, rise two, pass through, rise one then
pass through the needles to their first position. The above movements being
continuously repeated according to the length of taffeta required.
Second. The bar No. 1 rise the distance of one needle the guides pass through the
needles, rise one pass through fall one, pass through fall one then pass through to
their first position.
No. 2 bar falls one needle the guides pass through the needles fall one needle,
pass through and rise one, pass through and rise one, then pass through to their first
position.
No. 3 bar when traversed by the operation of the droppers of a jacquard, rises two
needles, the guides pass through the needles, rise one pass through and fall two, pass
through and fall one, then pass through to their first position, such movements being
continuously repeated for the length fabric required.

page_text: Third. The bar No. 1 rises the distance of two needles, the guides pass through the
needles, rise one pass through, fall two pass through, fall one and pass through to
their first position.
No. 2 falls one, the guides pass through the needles fall one, pass through rise one,
pass through and rise one, then pass through to their first position.
No. 3 bar when traversed by the operation of the droppers of a jacquard, rises two
needles, the guides pass through the needles, rise one pass through and fall two, pass
through and fall one, then pass through to their first position, the movements being
repeated for the length required.
In the several ways above described of traversing the bars No. 1 and No. 2 the
traverses are made by wheels at one end of the machine. The traversing of the
No. 3 bar being made by the operation of the droppers of a jacquard only when
required in the following way.
When the cards passing through the machine are left unpunched, the guides of
the bars Nos. 1 and 2 lap their threads round the needles and make a taffeta fabric
in the usual way, while the guides of the third bar simply pass to and fro between
the needles without lapping their threads round them, the threads lying loose on the
back of the taffeta for the length required according to the number of unpunched
cards. But when punched cards pass through the jacquard the third bar is traversed
as above described the guides lapping their threads round the needles thereby pro-
ducing a thicker fabric for the required length the loose threads lying on the back of
the fabric are either clipped off by the attendant as they pass towards the work roller
or are clipped off after the piece is taken from the machine.
Taffeta fabrics having portions made thicker at intervals as above described may
be employed to make gloves, gauntlets, mittens and similar articles, with the thickest
portion at the end of the thumbs and tips of the fingers, or at the arms of the gauntlets,
or at the wrists of gloves or mittens.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is,
The improved fabric substantially as described for the purposes set forth.
Dated this Eighth day of May 1888.
H. W. GOUGH, C.E
Agent.