IMPROVEMENTS IN STOCKINETTE OR KNITTING MACHINES to be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: I, ROBERT HENRY LENDRUM of Alma Mills, Thongs-Bridge, Yorkshire, Manu-
facturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STOCKINETTE OR KNITTING MACHINES to be as follows:-
"
"
My Invention has reference to a stockinette machine or stockinette loom
employed in manufacturing woollen or other goods. This machine is sometimes
used to produce a single or summer cloth where one of the threads employed is
formed into a loop or curl on the face thereof, but by certain additions to such
machine I am enabled to produce a backed" cloth with loops-that is—a summer
cloth having an additional back, and onto the face and in between the face and
back of such cloth I form one of the threads employed into a loop or curl some of
which loops shew through onto the back of the said "backed cloth" in the same
manner as is done on a single cloth.
To arrange the machine so as to produce such a cloth I compound the machine
or I use some parts in duplicate somewhat as follows-viz-I employ the various
wheels at present used for placing the thread onto the vertical needles, and also the
various other wheels at present used for operating upon the threads for producing
the cloth, all of which are well known in this class of machine, but to manufacture
the "backed" cloth having loops on one or both sides I employ an additional
laying on "wheel with its accompanying "clearing and picking up" wheels, by
means of which I am enabled to place an extra thread into the fabric in such a
manner that when the said fabric has undergone the scouring and milling process,
the extra thread will develop into a loop on the back and face of the fabric, thereby
producing a backed summer piece having loops as explained.
By changing position of the extra "picking up" wheel in its relation to the
other wheels or by dispensing with it altogether I can alter or vary the number of
loops put into the fabric.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Commercial Street, Halifax,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, ROBERT HENRY LENDRUM of Alma Mills, Thongsbridge, Yorkshire Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STOCKINETTE OR KNITTING MACHINES and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
"
My Invention has reference to a stockinette machine or stockinette loom
employed in manufacturing woollen, worsted, or other goods. This machine is
sometimes used to produce a single or summer cloth where one of the threads
employed is formed into a loop or curl on the face thereof, but by certain additions
to such machine I am enabled to produce a "backed" cloth with loops-that is-a
"backed" summer or backed winter cloth, having an additional backing thread put
therein by means of new arrangement of wheels, and which backing thread may
consist of a yarn looped previously or of a plain yarn which is caused to develop
into a loop during the scouring and milling of the fabric, which said loops however
produced, appear on the face of the fabric, whilst it still retains an ordinary
appearance on the back thereof sometimes however I prefer the loops to shew on
both sides of the fabric.
In order that my Invention may be better understood I herein give reference to
the accompanying sheet of drawings which represents a plan view of a stockinette
loom having my improvements applied thereto. A is framing of machine, B the
driving pulleys which give motion to wheels C and bevil wheels D and E, the
latter of which gives rotary motion to the cylinder F employed to carry the vertical
needles a shewn by dots such needles being fed by thread from the creel b.
In order to shew the difference between my arrangement of segments or wheels,
and the arrangement of segments and wheels at present in use, I have shewn the
two arrangements on the accompanying drawing. The old system is shewn on the
upper part of the drawing and consists of a laying on wheel 1, clearing wheel 2,
loop wheel 3, picking up wheel 4, another loop wheel 5, divider wheel 6, presser
wheel 7, landing wheel 8, and knocking over wheel 9, all of which are placed and
arranged in the usual manner to manufacture a "backed" summer or winter cloth
and would not, and could not be made to manufacture a "backed " summer or
winter cloth with an additional backing composed of either looped or curled yarn
or of yarn employed for the purpose of being developed into loops or curls in the
scouring and milling process, on either one or both sides of the fabric.
To arrange the machine so as to produce such a cloth I compound some of the
wheels or I use some of them in duplicate as shewn on the lower part of the
accompanying drawings, where it will be observed there are two laying on wheels 1
and I also two clearing wheels 2 and 2ª together with two picking up wheels 4
and 4 all of which are so placed as to manipulate upon the thread in such manner
as to produce the special kind of fabric above mentioned-viz-a backed summer
or winter cloth with an additional backing thread forming loops either on the face
or both sides. O is a plate employed to push or press the fabric down upon the
needles.

page_text: In stockinette machines it is customary to have four sets of segments arranged
around the circle F, such arrangement I also intend to adhere to, but I do not
necessarily employ four sets of segments all of the same arrangement, as I may
employ a set arranged on the old system, and a set arranged according to my
system, such sets being arranged alternately or in twos, or there may be three sets
on my system working with one old system, or all of thein may be on the new
system.
Although I have shewn on the drawings the relative positions of the segment
wheels I prefer to employ I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to that system as the position of additional picking up wheel 4ª may be altered or
I may dispense with it altogether, in which case the appearance of the fabric would
be altered, because the backing thread which the said additional wheel 4 should
have picked up will have to be picked up either by the ordinary backing wheel, or
it would have to be carried forward and knocked over by the ordinary landing and
knocking over wheels.
By the arrangement of wheels herein set forth I am enabled to produce a fabric
which hitherto could not be produced in this class of machine, therefore I wish it
to be understood that I claim as my Invention
In a stockinette machine, the use of duplicate wheels, such as are herein shewn
and mentioned for the purpose of making a "backed" summer or "backed" winter
cloth with an additional backing, having loops on one or both sides substantially as
set forth.