IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF KNITTED FABRICS, AND IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED THEREFOR
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF KNITTED
FABRICS, AND IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED THEREFOR."-A communication
from abroad by William Harrison Ramsdell and John Emerson
Crane, both of Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Sealed the 25th June 1872, and dated the 4th May 1872.
·PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 4th May 1872.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
KNITTED FABRICS, AND IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED THEREFOR,” a communication,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 4th May 1872.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
KNITTED FABRICS, AND IN MACHINERY EMPLOYED THEREFOB,” a communication,
to be as follows:
This Invention relates to circular latch needle knitting machines
which carry a divided warp capable of being brought into an undivided
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page_text: state by pressing out the warp threads or by suspending or withdrawing
either the outside or the inside series of warp threads, leaving only a
single warp on the machine.
And the said Invention relates to a warp and looped fabric, and to
mechanisms for producing the same, which mechanisms introduce single
weft or filling threads between the divided warp threads and on either
side of the needles, or simultaneously on opposite sides of the needles,
and which introduce single filling threads inside of the warp and outsido
of the needles, or outside of the warp and inside of the needles, or both
of these filling threads simultaneously, or either or both of such last-
named filling threads simultaneously with the introduction of cither or
both of the filling threads introduced between the divided warp threads,
and which introduce single filling threads between the needles by
dividing the needles in the usual way and by guiding or leading such
filling threads between the divided needles inside of the warp, or by
passing such filling threads on opposite sides of alternate undivided
needles outside of the warp by means of an oscillating or vibrating guide
or filling feeding mechanism, and either or both of the two last-named
filling threads may be introduced simultaneously with the introduction
of any one, two, or more of those previously described. Either
of the aforesaid filling threads may be introduced singly and separately,
or all of them may be introduced at the same time, or any two,
three, four, or five of the six filling threads may be introduced
simultaneously in their appropriate places and from alternate feeds, or
from several or all of the feeds or feeding places on the machine, by
which means a great variety of fabrics may be produced, each fabric
readily distinguishable from the others.
The said Invention also relates to circular latch-needle knitting
machines, which carry an undivided warp or single circular series of
warp threads, and which introduce weft or filling threads between the
warp threads and the needles, and either singly or separately, or both of
such filling threads; at the same time and in connection therewith two
knitting threads are introduced at each feed or at and from alternate
feeds.
In forming or producing fabrics composed of knitting loops or stitches
and the warp threads and either of the single filling threads, or any two

page_text: at and from alternate feeds or simultaneously at each feed, one of the
knitting threads inside of the warp threads and one of them outside of
the warp threads, and both of them are brought together under the
hooks of the same latch needles and the loops or stitches formed of the
two threads together; the said knitting threads enclose the warp threads,
and both together enclose the filling when the loops are knocked over
the ends of the needles.
To construct, apply, and use my said improvements, and to make them
practically available, I apply them to an ordinary circular knitting
machine provided with vertical reciprocating latch needles, which may
be arranged in slides having operating butts, or made of wire with the
butts formed on the shanks of the needles.
I use a series of inner warp beams provided with warp in combination
with and carried by an inner beam plate projecting from a gear wheel and
revolving at the same velocity as the needle carrying cylinder, the inner
warp threads being conducted or guided to the work inside of the needles
directly from the beams or over guides. I also use a series of outer warp
beams provided with warp in combination with and carried by an outer
beam plate supported in grooved bearings and revolving at the same
velocity as the said needle carrying cylinder, the warp threads being
conducted or guided to the work inside the needles directly from the
beams or over outer guides. The outer and inner warp carrying and
delivering apparatus is for the purpose of supplying or furnishing a
divided warp or a warp in a divided' state, and for introducing filling
thread or threads between the divided warp threads.
Outer and inner rods, arms, or braces, and a tubular hub bearing are
used for supporting the said inner and outer revolving warp furnishing
apparatus. I provide the machine with a thread guide carrying plate in
combination with and supported by the said rods and arms, the same
having an interposed flanged tube, which serves as a bearing for the
aforesaid gear wheel and the connected inner beam plate.
In all ordinary circular knitting machines which introduce filling
thread, and which have no warp when a knitting thread breaks, the work
runs off from the needles and drops down below the cylinder, requiring
considerable labour and involving loss of time to get the work back
upon the needles.
In the use of my improvements the chove named difficulty in

page_text: or fully obviated, for when the outside or the inside knitting thread
breaks the remaining knitting thread keeps the loops good, and holds
the work on the needles, and if both the outer and inner knitting threads
break, by using a latch opener and by reinserting the inside knitting
thread through its guide, it will pass under the hooks of the needles
which have had their latches opened, and thus set up the work on the
needles, causing the machine to resume and continue its regular knitting
and filling.
The inner beam plate which carries the gear wheel also carries the
series of inner warp beams in combination with and revolving on an arm
supported tube, and operated by a gear wheel on a rotating horizontal
shaft supported in a frame, and driven by the needle carrying cylinder
by means of connecting gear wheels or other suitable mechanism.
Slotted bearings or equivalent devices are applied to the outer rods, or
to other suitable supports for receiving or sustaining the outer edge or
extremity of the revolving outer beam plate carrying the series of outer
warp supplying beams.
In combination with the outer beam plate, I use a ring gear wheel
and connecting spur gear wheels, a lower gear wheel and an intermediate
gear wheel, each arranged upon its appropriate shaft. The latter gear
wheel is driven by the needle carrying cylinder, and drives the other
gear wheels and the beam plate.
I employ two sets of connecting and operating gear wheels or equi-
valent contrivances, arranged on appropriate shafts and operated by the
needle carrying cylinder to simultaneously revolve the inner and outer
beam plates and their warp supplying beams at the same velocity as the
cylinder of needles.
The filling feeding mechanisms for introducing filling thread between the
divided warp threads and inside of the needles or between the divided warp
threads and outside of the needles are assisted by a warp pressing cam.
One of the said feeding mechanisms consists of a pivoted lever pro-
vided at its forward end with an eye furnished guide depending below
the tops of the needles and operated by a toothed wheel and spring, or by
equivalent means, to cause the said guide to miss the undivided needles,
and to lay the filling thread between such needles.
Another filling feeding mechanism consists of a dividing wheel, a warp
pressing cam, and a filling guide, co-operating to divide the needles, and

page_text: to introduce filling thread between the divided needles and inside the
warp threads.
One or more outside filling thread guides introduce
filling thread outside of the warp threads and inside of the rising latch
needles; and one or more inside filling thread guides, each connected
with or arranged inside of a warp guiding cam introduce filling thread
inside of the warp threads and outside of the rising latch needles ;
one or more inside knitting thread guides connected with or arranged
inside of the said warp guiding cam introduce inside knitting thread
outside of the recording latch needles and inside of the warp pressed
out by the cam.
The outside filling thread guide and the knitting thread guides with
the warp pressing cam all co-operate and introduce their threads to the
reciprocating latch needles and the warp. The aforesaid warp guiding
cam performs the duty of guiding or pressing the warp threads outward
beyond the needles, and also serves as a latch guard.
I may combine any two, three, four, five, or six of the filling feeding
guides or mechanisms herein described, each combination or pair of
guides co-operating and introducing their threads of filling simultaneously
between the divided warp threads or between the needles, or on either or
both sides of the warp, or the needles, or in any specified order.
One of the warp pressing cams assists the filling guide to lay its filling
thread outside of the needles between the divided warp threads.
The vertically reciprocating latch needles of the circular series rise, rest,
and recede, and the aforesaid dividing wheel and a filling guide introduce
filling thread between the needles, where they revolve in a horizontal
plane. And two filling feeding mechanisms are used in combination
with the horizontally revolving latch needles in the circular series of
needles.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 2nd November 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., -Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Fourth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Robert Lake, Her special
licence that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Robert Lake,
any exccutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF KNITTED FABRICS, AND IN MACHINERY
EMPLOYED THEREFOR," a communication to me from abroad by William
Harrison Ramsdell and John Emerson Crane, both of Lowall, Massa-
chusetts, United States of America, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Robert Lake, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, forming a part of this Specification:-
This Invention relates to circular latch needle knitting machines,
which carry a divided warp capable of being brought into an undivided
state by pressing out the warp threads or by suspending or withdrawing
either the outside or the inside series of warp threads, leaving only a
single warp on the machine.
And tho said Invention relates to a warp and hooped fabric, and to
mechanisms for producing the same, which mechanisms introduce single
weft or filling threads between the divided warp threads, and on either
side of the needles or simultaneously on opposite sides of the needles,
and which introduce single filling threads inside of the warp and outside

page_text: of the needles, or outside of the warp and inside of the needles, or botli
of these filling threads simultaneously, or either or both of such last
named filling threads simultaneously with the introduction of either or
both of the filling threads introduced between the divided warp threads,
and which introduce single filling threads between the needles by dividing
the needles in the usual way, and by guiding or leading such filling
threads between the divided needles inside of the warp, or by passing
such filling threads on opposite sides of alternate undivided needles
outside of the warp by means of an oscillating or vibrating guide, or
filling. feeding mechanism, and either or both of the two last named
filling threads may be introduced simultaneously with the introduction
of any one, two, or more of those previously described. Either of the
aforesaid filling threads may be introduced singly and separately, or all
of them may be introduced at the same time, or any two, three, four, or
five, of the six filling threads may be introduced simultaneously in their
appropriate places, and from alternate feeds or from several or all of the
feeds or feeding places on the machine, by which means a great variety
of fabrics may be produced, each fabric readily distinguishable from the
others..
The said Invention also relates to circular latch-needle knitting
machines, which carry an undivided warp or a single circular series of
warp threads, and which introduce weft or filling threads between the
warp threads and the needles, and either singly or separately, or both of
such filling threads; at the same time and in connection therewith two
knitting threads are introduced at each feed or at and from alternate
feeds.
In forming or producing fabrics composed of knitting loops or
stitches and the warp threads and either of the single filling threads,
or any two or more of such filling threads, the two knitting threads
are introduced at and from alternate feeds or simultaneously at each
feed, one of the knitting threads inside of the warp threads, and one of
them outside of the warp threads, and both of them are brought together
under the hooks of the same latch needles, and the loops or stitches
formed of the two threads together; the said knitting threads enclose
the warp threads, and both together enclose the filling when the loops
are knocked over the ends of the needles.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
In the Drawings relating to the first part of this Invention,―
Figure 1 represents a side elevation.
Figure 2, a central vertical section, and Figure 3, a plan or top view.
Figure 4, represents a horizontal section on the line x, x, Figure 1.
Figures 5, 5ª, 6, and 7, represent detached portions shown in Figures 4,
8, 9, 10, and 11, and in some other Figures.
Figure 8 represents a side elevation of the needle carrying cylinder
and certain of the feeding mechanisms, not shewn in Figure 1 on the
opposite side of the machine.
Figures 9 and 9" represent in horizontal section, drawn to an enlarged
scale, certain of the parts shewn in Figures 4 and 8.
Figure 10 represents a side elevation of Figure 9 directly against the
dividing wheel B', the warp pressing cam B', and the connected filling
feed or guide c³.
Figure 11 represents a side elevation of the needle carrying cylinder
on the side opposite to that shewn in Figure 1.
Figures 12 to 21, inclusive, represent different elevations of certain of
the knitting thread guides and the filling thread guides used in this
machine, Figure 12 being an inside elevation of the guide and cam
shewn in Figure 13, looking in the direction of the arrow.
Figures 14, 15, and 16, are only filling thread guides, each having a
warp pressing cam; and Figure 17 is intended to represent a knitting
thread guide and a warp pressing cam without a filling thread guide
connected.
Figure 22 is a sectional elevation; and Figure 23 a side view of a
detached filling thread guide for introducing filling thread between the
divided warp threads, and on either side of the needles, or simultaneously
on opposite sides of the needles.
Figure 24 represents a modification of the filling thread guides last
above described.
Figure 25 represents a horizontal section of the hub, and the
tubular bearing of the bevel gear wheel G, about on the line x¹, x', of
Figure 2.

page_text: Figures 26 to 31, inclusive, represent the different single filling thread
fabrics made on this machine.
Figure 32 represents a fabric having two filling threads, which were
introduced on opposite sides of the warp and the needles.
Figure 33 represents a specimen of fabric containing four filling
threads, and made on this machine by the co-operation of four of the
filling feeding mechanisms; six filling threads are readily introduced
simultaneously to form a heavier and more stocky fabric, or any two,
three, four, or five of the six filling threads, and by each of such
changes a different fabric will be produced.
In the Drawings relating to the second part of this Invention
Figure 34 represents a side elevation of the machine containing the said
improvements.
Figures 35 and 36 represent opposite central vertical sections.
Figure 37 represents a plan or top view of the said machine.
Figure 38 also shews a top view with certain modifications.
Figure 39 represents a horizontal section on the line y, y, of Figure 34.
In this Figure 39 I have shewn appropriate guides and other devices
or mechanism for introducing both the knitting threads and the
filling threads inside and outside of the warp, and also the means for
introducing filling threads inside of the warp and outside of the needles,
and outside of the warp and inside of the needles, or both of these
together on alternate feeds, or on all the feeds, as herein-after described.
Some of the filling thread guides are combined with the knitting thread
guides and with the warp pressing cams, and other of the filling thread
guides are separate devices, each provided with a warp pressing cam,
and a guide for leading the filling outside of the needles and inside of
the warp, the same being guided or pressed out by the cams.
Figure 40 represents also a horizontal section similar to that shewn in
Figure 39, showing only the inside and outside knitting thread guides,
and the outside filling thread guides and warp pressing cams, omitting
the guides which lead the filling outside of the needles and inside of
the warp pressed out by the cams; certain of the driving mechanisms
are also shewn in Figure 40, which could not well be shewn in
Figure 39.

page_text: Figure 41 represents also a horizontal section of a portion of the
machine containing one set or series of feeds or yard feeding devices,
the parts being enlarged to about twice the size of the same parts
shewn in Figure 39.
Figure 42 represents a side elevation of the principal parts shewn in
Figure 41.
To construct, apply, and use the said improvements, and to mako
them practically available I adapt them to an ordinary circular knitting
machine provided with vertical reciprocating latch needles, which may
be arranged in slides having operating butts, or made of wire with the
butts formed on the shanks of the needles.
In the said Drawings A represents the grooved cylinder, which carries
the circular series of needles; and B, the outside cylinder containing the
usual cam groove for operating the needles c by their butts. To the
outside of the cylinder B, or to some suitable framework or support of the
cylinder, I apply rods C, which rise above the top of the machine, and
at their upper end support a frame D, and converging arms or braces E;
the former contain or carry the bearings for the upper horizontal
shaft F, and the latter suspend the inner driving gear wheel G and a
circular plate H, which carries the inside knitting and filling thread
guides I and I', each secured to the plate by a connected stand J. These
last-named parts are connected with and suspended from the arms E,
and to their inner ends by vertical rods K, which have screw nuts
beneath the plate H, and on the top of each arm there is a tubular
flanged hub bearing L, which supports the bevel gear wheel G inter- :
posed between the shoulder V of each rod K and its connected arm, and
each is secured by a nut i on the top of the inner end of the arm to
hold the parts steadily and firmly in position, while the outer end
of each arm is well secured by a nut m on the upper end of each
rod C.
The horizontal shaft F is furnished with two bevel gear wheels M
and N, the former intersected with the teeth of the gear wheel G to give
it rotary motion, and the latter N intersecting a bevel gear O on a
vertical shaft P operating the upper shaft F; near the middle portion of
the shaft P is a spur gear wheel R, and near the lower end of said
shaft is a spur gear wheel S, the latter intersecting a spur gear wheel T
arranged upon a stud T'. The gear wheel T in this instance gears into the
needle carrying cylinder, and when this cylinder rotates rotary motion

page_text: is impaired to the gear wheel T, and from this to the gear wheel S, and
the shaft P and the other connected parts.
At a suitable distance below the frame D, and secured to the rods C,
are horizontally grooved or slotted bearings U, which support a circular
3 revolving outer beam plate W; the latter carries a series of outer warp
beams Y supported in stands or bearings rising above the plate. Each
beam or bobbin Y is provided with a friction binder to retain a suitable
tension on the warp threads a running from such beams, or the warp
threads passing upward over guide wires D*, thence downward to and
through holes 7 in the inner edge of the plate, thence to the work
a little inside of the needles c. This beam plate W. is provided on
its under side, and near its inner edge, with a circular ring gear
wheel Z, and this gear wheel intersects a smaller spur gear wheel A'
arranged upon a vertical stud or shaft A' a little outside of the needle-
5 carrying cylinder. The teeth of this gear wheel A' also intersect
the teeth of the gear wheel R on the vertical shaft P, and the gear
wheel R imparts rotary motion to the outer beam plates through the
gear wheels A¹ and Z.
The bevel gear wheel G has a wide horizontally projecting flange B'
O extending from its lower extremity; the projecting flange 6 of the hub
bearing L holds the gear wheel G upward, or in its horizontally revolving
position. The gear flange B' is the inner beam plate, or the plate which
supports the inner warp beams B², each of which is provided with a
friction binder that may be similar to those on the outer beams Y. The
5 outer edge of this plate B has warp guiding perforations 8 to guide
the inner warp threads d which pass from the beams B' over guide
wires D³, and downward to the work a little inside of the needles.
The operating gear wheels must be so constructed and arranged, each
with a suitable number of tecth, that the bevel gear wheel G and the
0 beam plate B' shall revolve at the same time as the outer beam
plate W, and both at the same velocity of the needle carrying cylinder.
By this peculiar construction and arrangement or combination of the
outer and inner revolving beam plates and warp beams an open
annular space Z' is left between the two plates, sufficiently wide to
5 permit the introduction of one or more filling thread guides, which
introduce the filling threads between the warp threads. These warp
threads pass from the warp beams on opposite sides of the annular space

page_text: or opening to the work inside of the needles in a divided state, sub-
stantially as shewn in Figure 2. The warp threads a from the outer
beams Y run inward at an angle, and the warp threads d from the inner
beams B' run outward at an angle, and both meet at the top of the work
inside of the needles, and generally between them.
E
Each of the filling guides B³ may be adjustably secured at its upper
end to one of the arms or braces E, or to a hollow depending stud C³,
and fastened by a set screw a'. Each of these filling thread guides B³
has two or more thread guiding tubes f and f¹ or other suitable thread
guiding devices arranged and adjusted to guide or introduco their filling 1
threads on opposite sides, or on either side of the needles, and between
the divided warp threads, as hercin-after described.
When a single filling thread is introduced between the divided warp
threads, and inside of the needles, and with a machine having but one
knitting feed, or when several single filling threads are introduced 1
between the divided warp threads, and inside of the needles on a machine
having the same number of knitting feeds that there are filling feeds,
and such single filling thread or threads are interknitted with the divided
warp threads and the loops or stitches, the fabric produced will be like
that shewn in Figure 26, and if such single filling thread or threads are 2
introduced between the divided warp threads and outside of the needles,
the fabric produced will be like that shewn in Figure 27. In both of
these fabrics last described, the single filling threads overlie one warp
thread, and underlie the next warp thread throughout the fabric; but
in each of these fabrics the filling threads occupy different positions 2
relatively to the loops or stitches, or to the warp threads j.
A different fabric is easily made on this machine by introducing two
single filling threads, one through each tube or guide f, and between the
divided warp threads, and simultaneously on opposite sides of the needles,
as herein-after described. Such a fabric may be made with alternate 3
single filling threads, or all the filling threads overlying and underlying
alternate warp threads, and other single filling threads are readily
introduced, either separately or in connection with those last above
described.
At a suitable distance from the shaft P, and the gear wheel S, and to 3
the side of the outer cylinder B, I apply a stand or bracket A, and to
the top of this stand a rising stud B', the upper end of which extends
above the needle carrying cylinder. The upper end of the stud B is the

page_text: pivotting connection for a vibrating or oscillating guide lever B³ there-
unto applied. One end of this guide lever extends backward to a point
directly over the edge of the spur gear wheel T, where its hook end e
engages with the toothed wheel D³ arranged on the stud T on the top of
this spur gear wheel T, and revolving with it.
The opposite end of the lever B' extends forward where its guiding
eyes n come directly in the range of the circular series of needles,
the lower eye being formed in a depending guide c' operating between
the needles, and guiding or laying the thread c³ on opposite sides of
alternate needles, and at a point in the circular series of needles, where
they revolve in a horizontal plane without rising or receding, although
such a guide may be applied nearer the top of the cylinder, and where
the needles rise. This guide lever 6 is operated to pass the filling
thread on opposite sides of the needles by a toothed wheel D³, and a
spring a³ acting upon the hook end e of the lever, the number of teeth
in the wheel D³ being half the number contained in the spur gear
wheel T below it, so as to give a correct oscillation or swing to the lever,
and cause the guide c³ to miss the needles and allow them to pass on
opposite sides of the last named guide, and to lay the filling thread
between the needles.
c
Fabric composed of the loops or stitches and the warp threads with a
single filling thread at each feed introduced through the vibrating guide
and between the needles (the filling thread being carried outside of the
warp threads) will be like that shewn in Figure 29, where all the threads
are clearly shewn, c³ representing the filling threads, and the warp
threads. Fabric composed of the same parts or threads is clearly shown
in Figure 28, where the single filling threads c' each run in a different
direction from those shown in Figure 29.
To form or produce the fabric shown in Figure 28, the guide lever B³
is thrown out of action either by removing it or by removing the wheel 1)*
or in some other convenient way, and a different set of instrumentalitics
or. operating mechanisms is brought into action, these mechanisms
consist of a toothed presser wheel or dividing wheel B, a warp guiding
cam B', and a connected thread guide c³, all operating in connection.
The wheel B' operates to divide the needles and allow them to pass on
opposite sides of the guide c³, and at the same time the cam B7 presses
out both the inner and the outer divided warp threads beyond the outer
divided needles, thus allowing the filling thread c' to pass through the

page_text: guide between the divided needles, and inside of the warp threads pressed
out by the cam, the said filling threads and the warp threads are enclosed
by the inner and outer knitting threads or by then forming loops, thus
producing the fabric shown in Figure 29. By applying and operating
the guide lever 13³, as herein-before described, and in connection with the t
presser wheel B, the warp cam B', and the guide c³, two filling threads
may be introduced simultaneously between the needles, and on opposite
sides of the warp threads, and such filling threads will be crossed on the
needles and form a more stocky fabric.
Either or both of the filling feeding mechanisms last described may 1
be used in co-operating connection with either or both of the filling
feeding mechanisms previously described, and which introduce filling
threads between the divided warp threads, thus forming a knitted fabric
with four filling threads introduced simultaneously.
In Figure 33 I have shown a specimen of fabric, or all the threads 1
comprising such fabric, which has four filling threads; one was intro-
duced between the divided warp threads and outside of the needles by
and through the guides; another of said filling threads was introduced
inside of the warp and outside of the needles by one of the filling
guides I'; the third of the said filling threads was introduced inside of 2
the needles and outside of the warp by one of the filling guides D';
the fourth of the said filling threads was introduced between the needles
outside of the warp, and this was done by the vibrating guide of the
lever B', as already described.
The fabric shown in Figure 33 may be readily changed and rendered 2
more stocky by introducing another single filling thread through the
guide, between the divided warp threads and outside of the needles,
but in order to thus introduce such last named filling thread the guide f¹
should be located near some one of the warp pressing cams, say about
at as in Figures 4 and 9, so that when the warp threads are pressed out 3
by the cam the work on the needles is also pressed out sufficiently to
carry the connected filling thread from the highest tube or guide' over
the tops of the needles and outside of them.
The fabric last above described may be readily changed and made
more stocky by introducing the sixth single filling thread inside the 3
warp threads and between the needles by means of the presser wheel Bª,
the cam B', and the guide c³, as before described; all the parts operate

page_text: not only the feeding mechanism last described and the vibrating guide
and the guides fand f¹ between the divided warp threads, but in con-
nection with these the outside filling thread guide D' and the inside
filling thread guide I'; the latter is connected with the inside knitting
thread guide I or a separate guide arranged inside of one of the warp
pressing cams 9, as shown in Figures 39, 41 and 42. The filling thread
guides D' and I are readily applied and operated on either machine,
and on this machine either separately or in connection with the filling
feeding mechanisms herein-before described, and which introduce filling
threads between the divided warp threads and between the needles.
Thus it will be seen that this machine will introduce six single filling
threads simultaneously, or any one of the six single filling threads
separately, or any two or more of the said single filling threads with the
loops or stitches, and with the warp threads in a divided or in an
undivided state. It will also be seen and understood that any two or
more of the said single filling threads are readily introduced by and
from alternate feeds or from all the feeds on the machine, having a
number of feeds, thereby producing or working a great variety and
number of changes in the filling feeds and in the order of feeding the
filling and consequently.in the fabric.
The filling feeding mechanism which introduces the filling between
the divided needles and inside of the warp threads is supported in its
operative position by an arm B³ adjustably secured to the centrally
suspended plate H, or to a hub on the top of said plate by a holding
screw p passing through the slotted end of the arm into the plate. The
cam B' is also adjustable upon the arm B³, and the wheel B' and the
thread guide c³ are adjustable with the cam by a slot c³ and. by a holding
screw c² which forms the bearing or journal whereon the wheel rotates;
the cam and the filling guide are shown detached in Figure 5; the wheel
and the filling guide in their relative position with the divided needles
are shown in Figures 6, and all the parts together are clearly shown in
Figures 4 and 9. The inside filling thread guide I' whether used as a
separate device or in connection with the inside knitting thread guide I
is applied to and supported by the plate H by means of a connecting
stand J adjustably secured to the plate by being slotted to a holding
screw k.
By removing the warp pressing cam B', a dividing wheel and its
thread onide ♫♬ may be applied to on arm R$ and fastened to the plate TT

page_text: by a screw pin connection with the warp pressing cam g, say about at
H' in Figures 4 and 9, a little back of the inside filling guide I'. I thus
divide the needles and introduce a filling thread between them at that
point or place to be followed by the second filling thread introduced
between the same needles or between other needles on opposite sides of
the machine; these two last named filling threads may thus be crossed
or not crossed on the needles and followed by another filling thread
introduced through the guide I', or by a filling thread introduced from
the guide c', or by both of these last named filling threads certain
modified fabrics are thus formed which may be further modified by 1
changing and adopting the different filling feeding mechanisms to work
in connection one with another or with more than one or two or more
with others.
In Figure 33 will be seen certain letters near or upon the different
threads there represented. These letters are intended to represent
different colored threads of which the fabric was in part formed. P
signifies a pink thread; Y, yellow; W, white; and R, a red thread, each
of which represents a filling thread.
The cylinder of needles receives its rotary motion by bevel gear wheels
in the usual way, and in practice I lengthen the shaft P at its lower end,
and apply the gear wheel S and the intermediate gear wheel T below
the stand or step C³, and intersect the teeth of the gear wheel T with
the gear wheel S, and with a spur gear wheel on the lower end of the
needle carrying cylinder above the usual bevel gear wheel thereon. The
inside knitting threads c" and the inside filling threads c' and ⁄¹, and all å
the others which are introduced inside of the warp threads must
necessarily pass down through the gear supporting tube or tubular hub
bearing L, and through their respective guides to the needles, as before
described.
Instead of slotting the bearing U to receive the outer edge or
extremity of the outer beam plate W, the outer edge of the beam plate
may be grooved and made to revolve on a tongue or cyc projecting from
a stand or bearing U secured to each of the rods C. It will be obvious
that the toothed wheel D" for operating the pivotted lover B³ is more a
convenience than a necessity; any equivalent means or obvious
substitute may be used to oscillate the lever and cause the filling guide
c' to miss the needles; the lever may be operated by curving its rear
arm inward to bring the back end e into acting contact with the grooves

page_text: or tricks (so called) of the needle carrying cylinder and thus dispense
with the wheel D", and operate the lever and the filling guide success-
fully, using always a spring or equivalent means to press the hook of the
lever against the grooved cylinder.
As a substitute for the oscillating lever B³ to carry and operate the
filling guide c', and cause it to miss the needles, the guide c may be
affixed to a radial reciprocating slide secured by a stand to the outside
cylinder B, and operated by a toothed wheel or by the grooved cylinder
A, the slide and the guide being thrown forward by a spring. This
lever B³ is not confined in its application to latch needles; such a filling
feeding mechanism may be readily applied and successfully operated to
introduce filling thread between the undivided needles of any circular
revolving knitting machine, as herein shewn and described, whether such
knitting machine carries a warp or only the loop forming apparatus.
The dividing wheel B and its connected filling guide c³ are not
confined in their application to this machine, but may be applied in
connection with the vertically reciprocating latch needles of any circular
knitting machine for introducing filling between the needles where they
revolve in a horizontal plane, dispensing with the usual filling inserting
wheel, whether such knitting machine carries a warp or only the loop
forming apparatus. The two filling feeding mechanisms last above
described may be applied and operated successivelly together on the same
latch needle machine for introducing the filling between the needles or
crossing their fillings on the needles, either in connection with a divided
or an undivided warp, or with only the loop forming apparatus.
I have previously referred to the single filling feeding guides or
mechanisms, and to the different combinations of any two or more of
them. In order to convey a clear idea of the various combinations
which I make of the said filling feeding guides or mechanisms f,f³, B,
and B, &c., I' and D', I hereunto annex a written table of letters and
figures, or characters representing the said single filling feeding guides
or mechanisms, and the same in the various legitimate and new com-
binations of two, three, four, and five; and of the whole six of said
mechanisms with duplicates, and of the various orders in which they are
arranged both with and without duplicates. Each of the said com-
binations produces a new result and a different result from any other
combination of the same number of parts or filling feeding mechanisms.
B

page_text: needles, and the other two will be introduced from I' and D' respectively
inside of the warp and outside of the needles, and outside of the warp
and inside of the needles. All the other combinations of three filling
feeding mechanisms in part 3 of said table will be readily understood
from the two examples and the explanations.
The first combination of four filling feeding mechanisms shown in
part 4 of the said table is a representation of the mechanisms f,f¹, Bo₂,
and B; when used together they introduce their filling through f
and f¹ between the divided warp and on opposite sides of the needles,
and a filling from B between the divided needles inside of the warp,
and a filling thread from B₂ between the undivided needles outside
of the warp.
All of the said four filling threads are introduced
simultaneously.
The above example is considered a sufficient explanation to any one
skilled in the art of operating circular knitting machines to comprehend
the fourth part of the said table and to practice with said combinations.
The several different combinations of 5 of the said filling feeding
mechanisms are represented in part 5 of the said table, and one example
of applying and using any one of the said combinations will be a
sufficient explanation of all of them. For this example I will take the
5th combinations of f, Bo, Bo, I g, and D', which when used together
will introduce their filling threads respectively between the divided warp
inside of the needles, between the needles and inside of the warp,
between the needles outside of the warp, inside of the warp and outside
of the needles, and outside of the warp and inside of the needles, each of
the said combinations of five filling feeding mechanisms will be different
and produce a different result.
In part 6 of the said table I have shown the whole 6 filling feeding
mechanisms with three duplicates added, and if all the mechanisms are
used in connection except the duplicates the change between this and
the combination of five last described is simply the addition of the
guide, which will introduce the sixth filling thread between the
divided warp and outside of the needles.
On a knitting machine having a sufficient number of feeds several
duplicate filling feeding mechanisms may be added as indicated in part 6
of the said table, where B, &c., B, &c., and fare added to the
six in regular order, and the order of arrangement of the guides or

page_text: mechanisms may be changed to use such mechanisms in almost any
order desired, such different orders of arrangement of said mechanisms
are indicated in parts 8, 9, 10, and 11 of the said table, some indicating
the same guides or mechanisms or certain of them, and some with
duplicates added, or certain of the guides or mechanisms arranged in
duplicate, see 3rd and 4th combinations in part 11 of the said table.
The divided warp on this machine is susceptible of several changes,
some of which are as follows:-The number of warp threads on each
warp beam may bo increased to carry two or more warp threads between
cach two needles in both the inner and the outer divided warp or in
only one of them, or there may be two or more alternate warp threads
leading from the inner and the outer beams, or the warp may be
supplied in sections, one section from an outer beam and passing
through the outer beam plate, and the next section from an inner
beam and passing through the inner beam plate, and so on around the
machine.
In some cases it would be advantageous to employ only the outer
warp passing through the outer beam plate, and in some cases to
employ only the inner warp passing through the inner beam plate.
When the inner warp is withdrawn and only the outer warp is
employed, the filling guide ƒ will be out of action, having no place
to lay its filling thread, but the filling guide f¹ may still lay its
filling thread outside of the needles and inside of the then undivided
warp. In this case the filling guide f¹ becomes an obvious substitute
for the inside filling guide I', or both of these guides may be used in
connection and in rotation, or between certain other of the guides or
filling feeding mechanisms, or with one or more of these between the
guides I and ƒ¹.
When the outer warp is withdrawn and only the inner warp is
employed, the inner filling guide F is operative to lay its filling thread
outside of the warp and inside of the needles, operating substantially
like the guide D', which may be dispensed with or thrown out of
action, or both of these guides may be used in connection either
between or on opposite sides of certain or any of the other guides
except the guide f'.
It will thus be seen that the warp may be used in a divided state
with both of the guides fand f¹, or in an undivided state with the same

page_text: guides assisted by a warp pressing cam, also that the warp may be used
in an undivided state and in two different ways, and in each way re-
taining in action one of the guides ƒ or ƒª.
In all ordinary circular knitting machines which introduce filling
thread and which have no warp, when a knitting thread breaks the
work runs off from the needles and drops down below the cylinder
requiring considerable labour and involving loss of time to get the
work back upon the needles.
In the use of my improvements the above-named difficulty is partially
or fully obviated, for when the outside or the inside knitting thread
breaks the remaining knitting thread keeps the loops good and holds
the work on the needles, and if both the outer and inner knitting
threads break by using a latch opener, as in Figure 12, and by re-
inserting the inside knitting thread through its guide I it will pass
under the hooks of the needles which have had their latches opened.
When thus set up the work on the needles causes the machine to
resume and continue its regular knitting and filling introduction
operation or process, the inside filling thread passing from its guide
below the latches outside the needles serves to close the latches upon
the re-inserted knitting thread which is drawn into loops, and at the
next revolution of the cylinder these loops will open the latches; the
needles then rise and close the latches when the needles recede with
newly formed loops upon them under their hooks, and the work will
progress as it did before the knitting threads were severed, thus saving
considerable time and labor besides keeping the work on the needles
and making more perfect goods.
In the second part of this Invention the converging arms or braces E
which are secured to the tops of the rods C, have suspended from their
inner ends a tubular shell or hub bearing L, which is substantially
similar to that specified in the description of the first part of the said
Invention, and this tube L is suspended on rods K which are shouldered
against the under side of the top flange L, and each secured by a nut
on the top of each arm. Theso depending rods K extend downwards
below the top of the cylinder A, and their lower ends hold the circular
plate H which supports the inner knitting and filling thread guides I
and I¹ each by a stand J secured to the plate.
Each thread guide I and I' is constructed and applied as clearly shown
in the Drawings, and upon its outer extremity is formed or fastened a

page_text: curved warp guide or warp guiding cam 7; one end g' of the latter is
bent inward to insure the revolving warp threads passing this end of the
cam, which gradually rises or is carried outward to its opposite end g³
which overhangs or lies beyond the needles in the same manner as in
the apparatus described in the first part of my Invention.
On both or either of these machines this warp guiding cam carries the
threads of the revolving warp outside of all the needles; this allows the
introduction of the inside knitting thread inside of the warp but outside
of the needles and under their hooks by the thread guide I, constructed
as described, and provided near its junction with the warp pressing cam
with two guiding eyes 3 and 4, and a guiding groove 5 between them.
The inner knitting thread c" passes downward through the tube L, inside
of the guide I, through the eye 3, and along in the groove 5, through the
eye 4, directly in the range of and a little below the tops of the fully raised
needles; when the latter recede they hook on to this knitting thread and
draw it downward before the warp threads pass the end g³ of the cam.
It will be understood that the end g³ of the cam g which carries the
warp beyond the needles must be against the receding needles or those
which are being carried downward for looping, so that cach needle after
passing the end of the cam, and while receding, shall have hooked on
both the inner and the outer knitting threads c" and c³. Therefore each
of such passing and receding needles shall have its latch closed upon the
knitting threads before the warp threads pass the end g³ of the cam, and
this prevents any liability of needles hooking on to the filling threads
as they otherwise might do and draw them into loops.
A short distance to the rear of the inside knitting thread guide
and to the inside of the warp guiding cam 9 I sometimes apply an
inside filling thread guide I, and generally a curved brace I', to support
the warp guiding cam at that point.
This inside filling thread guide must be arranged against the rising
needles or where they rise to carry their latches above the old loops so
that the inside filling thread shall pass below the latches of the fully
raised needles, and outside of such needles, and inside of the warp pressed
out by the cam. h¹ represents the said inside filling thread or threads,
which is clearly shown in the Drawings.
In this machine the tube L and its flange 6 support a toothed ring or
gear wheel Z, which revolves freely thereon. This gear wheel Z is

page_text: intersected by a pinion L' on the top end of a vertical shaft P arranged
in the stand P³ secured to one side of the cylinder B. At the lower end
of the shaft P is a second pinion N³, which may intersect the grooved
cylinder A, or the vertical shaft may extend downward below the
3 cylinder and its lower pinion intersect the usual driven gear wheel P',
which receives its motion from the pinion R² on the driving shaft S³, but
in this case the gear wheel P, which is generally a bevel gear wheel,
may be a spur gear wheel as shown in Figure 31.
Both the gear
wheel Z and the spur gear wheel P' may contain the same number of
teeth, so also the two pinions L' and Nº, may have each the same as the
other, so that the upper part of the machine shall revolve at the same
velocity of the needle carrying cylinder.
Stands or posts T rise from the top of the gear wheel Z at suitable
distances apart to receive the rods U³, which support the circular guide
wires V³ arranged above the top of the machine. An arm W³ extends
outward from each stand T, and these arms support a creel or bobbin
plate H, provided with spindles and bobbins Y for yarn. These bobbins
furnish the warp (or instead of bobbins I use large spools or warp beams)
all of which with the guide wires V³, and the supporting devices,
revolve with the gear Z and the rotating cylinder of devices.
The gear wheel Z is provided with warp guiding perforations or
holes 7 near the roots of its teeth, and the warp threads pass from the
bobbins or beams upward and around one or more guide wires V³, thence
downward and through the holes 7 in the gear Z, and from there to the
top of the work or fabric a little inside of the needles. The guide
wires V* are intended to produce sufficient friction or tension on the yarn
leading from the bobbins to keep the warp threads straight while the
machine is operated. To further insure the tension on the yarn from the
bobbins and to guide each warp thread from its bobbin more directly to
the guide wires, I apply a perforated tension guide plate B" above the
bobbins or between them and the guide wires Vs. This guide plate is
clearly shewn in Figure 38, with a portion of certain of the, guide wires
removed to shew the top of the plate. The filling thread guide or
guides D', one for each feed, are arranged upon the top of the stand or
bracket A; secured to the cylinder B generally by a thumb screw fo
whereby it may be adjusted at pleasure, and the nose of the thread guide
brought as near to the top of the cylinder as may be desired. An
auxiliary filling thread guide d may be arranged on the back or on some

page_text: other portion of the tubular guide D', and the filling guided to the tube
from almost any direction. When both the outside and inside filling
threads are introduced on all the feeds and the knitting on the other
feed or feeds, the fabric produced will be like that shown in Figure 32.
The principal difference between the fabric shown in Figure 32 and
that shown in Figure 30 is that the latter contains but half as much
filling as the former. In the fabric shown in Figure 32 all the loops
contain filling, while in the fabric shown in Figure 30 alternate rows of
loops contain the filling and in alternate rows of loops the filling is
omitted.
To form or produce the fabric shewn in Figure 31 the knitting is per-
formed in the usual way, and all the filling is introduced from and
through the inside filling guides I' on all the feeds, and passes outside of
tho needles and inside of the warp, pressed or guided out by the cams g,
which also serve as latch guards. This filling, like the other described,
together with the warp, is enclosed and secured by the loops or stitchics
when they are knocked over the ends of the needles by the knitting
process. The outside knitting thread guide g³ may be any ordinary
device which is capable of properly leading or guiding the outside
knitting thread to the needles.
I have previously referred to the gear wheel Z and to a proposed gear
wheel P as containing the same number of teeth, so also the two
pinions L' and N°; the same end may be attained by increasing the
diameter of the gear wheel Z and the pinion N³, or by the application of
any suitable train of gearing, so that both the lower and upper portions
of the machine will revolve at the same velocity.
This machine has the capacity for receiving a dividing wheel to divide
the needles, and a connected filling guide for introducing filling between
the divided needles in connection with the warp pressing cam g; a little
to the rear of the inside filling guide I', or such a dividing wheel and
filling thread guide may be provided with a separate cam for pressing
out the warp threads, and thereby carry a filling thread between the
needles and inside of the warp. This machine is also capable of
receiving a vibrating or oscillating filling feeding mechanism for intro-
ducing filling thread between the undivided needles and outside of the
warp, which in the said machine is always in an undivided state.

page_text: Having thus fully described the said Invention, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood that I claim,-
First.. A series of inner warp beams B² provided with warp in com-
5 bination with and carried by an inner beam plate B' projecting from the
gear wheel G and revolving at the same velocity as the needle carrying
cylinder, the inner warp threads d being conducted or guided to the
work inside of the needles directly from the beams or over guides D³, in
the manner and for the purpose described.
Second. A series of outer warp beams Y provided with warp in com-
bination with and carried by an outer beam plate W, supported in
grooved bearings U, and revolving at the same velocity as the needle
carrying cylinder, the warp threads a being conducted or guided to the
work, inside the needles directly from the beams, or over outer guides D³,
¡ in the manner and for the purpose described.
Third. The combination as described of outer and inner warp carrying
and delivering apparatus, with a circular latch needle knitting machine,
for the purpose of supplying a divided warp or a warp in a divided
state, and for introducing filling thread or threads betwecu the divided
warp threads.
Fourth. The combination as described of the outer rods C and the
inner rods K, the arms or braces E, and the tubular hub bearing L, or
equivalent means, for supporting the inner and outer revolving warp
furnishing apparatus.
Fifth. The thread guide carrying plate H in combination with and
supported by rods K, and arms E, and outer rods C, and having an inter-
posed flanged tube L, which serves as a bearing for the gear wheel G
and the connected inner beam plate B', as described.
Sixth. The inner beam plate carrying the gear wheel G, constructed
as described, and carrying the series of inner warp beams B³, in com-
bination with and revolving on the arm supported tube L, and operated
by a gear wheel M on a rotating horizontal shaft F, supported in the
frame D, and driven by the needle carrying cylinder by means of con-
necting gear, wheels, or other suitable mechanisms, as described.
Seventh. A divided warn in a knitting machine.

page_text: Eighth. The slotted bearings U, or equivalent devices, applied to
the rods C or to other suitable supports in combination with and
receiving or sustaining the outer edge or extremity of the revolving
outer beam plate W, carrying a series of outer warp supplying beams Y,
as described.
Ninth. The combination with the outer beam plate of the ring gear
wheel Z, the connecting spur gear wheels A and R, the lower gear
wheel S and the intermediate gear wheel T, each gear wheel being
arranged upon its appropriate shaft, and the latter gear wheel T driven
by the needle carrying cylinder and driving the other gear wheels and
the beam plate as described.
Tenth. The combination of two sets of connecting and operating gear
wheels T, S, R, O, N, M, and G, and T, S, R, A¹, and Z, or equivalent
contrivances, all arranged on appropriato shafts and operated by the
needle-carrying cylinder to simultaneously revolve the inner and outer
beam plates and their warp supplying beams at the same velocity as
the cylinder of needles, for the purpose and in the manner specified.
Eleventh. The filling feeding mechanism for equivalent contrivances
introducing filling thread between the divided warp threads, and inside
of the needles, as described.
Twelfth. The filling feeding mechanism f¹ or equivalent contrivances
introducing filling thread between the divided warp threads and outside
of the needles, assisted by a warp pressing cam, as described.
Thirteenth. The filling feeding mechanisms, consisting of a pivoted
lever B³ or equivalent contrivance, provided at its forward end with an
eyc furnished guide c¹, depending below the tops of the needles, and
operated by a toothed wheel D' and a spring a², or by equivalent means
to cause the guide c³ to miss the undivided needles, and to lay the filling
thread between such needles, as described.
Fourteenth. The combination as described, with a circular knitting
machine of a filling feeding mechanism, operating and introducing
filling thread between the undivided needles revolving in a horizontal
plane.

page_text: divide the needles and to introduce filling thread between the divided
needles, and inside of the warp threads, as described.
Sixteenth. One or more outside filling thread guides D', introducing
filling thread outside of the warp threads and inside of the rising latch
5 needles.
Seventeenth. One or more inside filling thread guides I', each con-
nected with or arranged inside of a warp guiding cam g, and introducing
filling thread inside the warp threads and outside of the rising latch
needles.
Eighteenth. One or more inside knitting thread guides, constructed
and applied as described, and each connected with or arranged inside of
a warp guiding cam 9, and introducing inside knitting thread outside
of the receding latch needles and inside of the warp pressed out by
the cam.
Nineteenth. The process of filling warp and looped fabric by intro-
ducing the filling thread or threads between the divided warp threads
and inside of the needles, as described.
Twentieth. The process of filling warp and looped fabric by intro-
ducing the filling thread or threads between the divided warp threads
) and outside of the needles, as described.
Twenty-first. The process of filling warp and looped fabric by intro-
ducing filling thread or threads inside of the warp threads and between
the divided needles, as described.
Twenty-second. The process of filling warp and looped fabric by
5 introducing the filling thread or threads between the undivided needles
and outside of the warp threads, as described.
Twenty-third. The process of filling warp and looped fabric by intro-
ducing the filling threads outside of the needles and inside of the warp
threads, as described.
Twenty-fourth. The combination, as described, of the inside knitting
thread guide I, and the inside filling thread guide I' connected with or
arranged inside of a warp pressing cam g, and both guides introducing
their threads simultaneously outside of the reciprocating latch needles
and inside of the warp threads pressed out by the cam.

page_text: Twenty-fifth. The combination of an outside filling thread guide D'
and an inside knitting thread guide I with its warp pressing cam co-
operating and introducing their threads simultaneously on opposite sides
of the reciprocating latch needles and the warp threads.
Twenty-sixth. The combination of the outside filling thread guide D¹ 5
and the inside knitting and filling thread guides I and I', the last two
connected with or arranged inside of a warp pressing cam, and all
co-operating and introducing their threads to the reciprocating latch
needles and the warp, as described.
Twenty-seventh. The combination of the outside filling thread 1
guides D' and the outside knitting thread guides 78 and the inside
knitting thread guides I with its warp pressing cam, all co-operating
and introducing their threads to the reciprocating latch needles and the
warp, as described.
Twenty-eighth. The combination of the outside knitting thread 1
guide g³ and the inside knitting and filling thread guides I and I' with
their warp pressing cam, all co-operating and introducing their threads
simultaneously to the reciprocating latch needles and the warp, as
described.
Twenty-ninth. The combination of outside and inside knitting thread 2
guides 9³ and I and outside and inside filling thread guides D' and I',
the second and last with a warp pressing cam, and all co-operating with
the reciprocating latch needles and the warp for the purpose and in the
manner specified.
Thirtieth. The aforesaid warp guiding cam g, constructed and applied 2
as described, and performing the duty of guiding or pressing the warp
threads outward beyond the needles, and also serving as a latch guard,
as described.
Thirty-first. The combination of any two of the filling feeding guides
or mechanisms ƒƒ¹ B², &c., B², &c., and I' or D' herein described, each 3
combination or pair of guides co-operating and introducing their two
threads of filling simultaneously between the divided warp threads, or
between the needles, or on either or both sides of the warp or the needles,
or in any specified order, as described.
Thirty-second. The process of filling warp and looped fabric by intro- 3
ducing two filling threads simultaneously between the divided warp

page_text: threads, or between the needles, or on either or both sides of the warp
or the needles, or in any order, as described.
Thirty-third. The combination of any three of the filling feeding
guides or mechanisms ƒƒ¹ B₁₁, B,, I' and D¹, herein described, each
combination of three guides co-operating and introducing their three
threads of filling simultaneously between the divided warp threads and
between the needles, or outside of the needle, or inside of the needles,
or on either or both sides of the warp or the needles, or in any order,
as described.
Thirty-fourth. The process of filling warp and looped fabric by intro-
ducing three filling threads simultaneously between the divided warp
threads, and between the needles, or outside of the needles, or inside
of the needles, or on either or both sides of the warp or the needles, or
in any order, as described.
Thirty-fifth. The combination of any four of the filling feeding guides
or mechanisms ƒ ƒ¹ B², B'c' I and D', herein described, each com-
bination of the four guides co-operating and introducing their four
threads of filling simultaneously between the needles, or on opposite
sides of the needles, or on opposite sides of the warp threads, or in any
order, as described.
Thirty-sixth. The process of filling warp and looped fabric by intro-
ducing four filling threads simultaneously between the divided warp
threads, and between the needles, or on opposite sides of the warp, or
the needles, or in any order, as described.
Thirty-seventh. The combination of any five of the filling feeding
guides or mechanisms fƒ¹ B', c³, B³c' I' and D', herein described, each
combination of the five guides or mechanisms co-operating and intro-
ducing their five threads of filling simultaneously between the divided
warp threads, and between and outside of the needles, or inside of the
needles, or on opposite sides of the warp and the needles, and between
the needles or the divided warp, or in any order, as described.
Thirty-eighth. The process of filling warp and looped fabric by intro-
ducing five filling threads simultaneously between the divided warp
threads, and between and outside or inside of the needles, or on opposite
sides of the warp and the needles, and between the needles or the
divided warp, or in any order, as described.

page_text: Thirty-ninth. The combination of the six filling feeding guides or
mechanisms ff B, B'c' I' and D', herein described, all co-operating
and introducing their filling threads between the divided warp threads,
and on opposite sides of the needles, between the needles, and on opposite
sides of the warp threads, and on opposite sides of the warp and the
needles in any order as described.
Fortieth. The process of filling warp and looped fabric by introducing
six filling threads simultaneously between the divided warp threads,
and on opposite sides of the needles, between the needles and on opposito
sides of the warp threads, and on opposite sides of the warp and the
needles in any order as described.
Forty-first. The combination of any two or all of the filling feeding
mechanisms fƒ¹ Bªc³, &c., and B., &c., or the combination of any one
or more of such guides or mechanisms, with the guides or mechanisms I'
or D', or with both I' and D', as described and for the purpose
specified.
Forty-second. The process of filling warp and looped fabric by intro-
ducing four filling threads between the divided warp threads and between
the needles, or by introducing any one or more of such filling threads
in connection with a filling thread or threads introduced outside of the
warp and inside of the needles, or inside of the warp and outside
of the needles, or on opposite sides of the warp and the needles, or in
any order as described.
Forty-third. The combination of a warp pressing cam B' or 9, with
the filling guide f' to lay its filling thread outside of the needles between:
the divided warp threads, substantially as described.
Forty-fourth. In combination with a circular scries of vertically
reciprocating latch needles, which rise, rest and recede, a dividing
wheel B, and a filling guide c³, for the purpose of introducing filling
thread between the needles where they revolve in a horizontal plane.
Forty-fifth. The combination of the two filling feeding mechanisms
Bc, and B'c', &c., with the horizontally revolving latch needles in a
circular series of needles, which rise, rest, and recede.
Forty-sixth. The warp and looped fabric containing filling thread
or threads introduced between a divided warp, and inside of the needles,
or outside of the needles, or between the needles and inside of the warp,

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or outside of the warp and inside of the needles, or a combination of
any two or more of such filling threads introduced simultaneously
between the divided warp. threads and on opposite sides of the needles
or between the needles and on opposite sides of the warp threads,
and on opposite sides of the warp and the needles, or in any order, as
Witness,
W. J. Lows.
Wч. ROB. LAKE. (L.S.)