IMPROVEMENTS IN KNITTING MACHINES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Polydore Bevernage Standring at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th August 1882.
POLYDORE BEVERNAGE STANDRING of Gand in the Kingdom of Belgium
"IMPROVEMENTS IN KNITTING MACHINES
"
This Invention relates to certain improvements in knitting machines generally
denominated Lamb's system and consists:-
Firstly of a machine for making two articles at the same time which machine
consists of two needle beds of about 1ft. 8 inc. in thickness (51 centimetres) having
on the right and left on each side a set of needles of about 6 inc. in width
(17 centimetres) In the middle between the rows of needles there is a free space
of about 3 inc. (9 centimetres) for the putting out of gear of the cams from the
centre or interior of the locks and at each extremity a free space of 13 inches
(+ centimetres) equally for the putting out of gear of the cams
On these beds works a carrier with two rows of locks placed at a distance of
about 9 inches (26 centimetres) apart from one another said measurement being
taken from the centre of one lock to the centre of the other.
For the putting out of gear of the cams from the heart or centre of the locks
there are according to this invention two ways:
First. The bolts of the locks are coupled by a bar in such manner that when a
bolt meets a catch of the corners, the two hearts of the locks become out of
gear at
the same time; this arrangement is very simple but compels the two parts to work
together.
Second. At the bottom and at about the middle of the beds of the needles are
placed two catches at the fore part as well as at the hind part of the said beds, in
such manner that each bolt of the hearts of the locks works between two catches.
The two parts are thus independent of each other, and the catches from the middle
as well as those from the corners being moveable the machine can work on one
side and be at rest on the other. This system presents the advantage that in case
either of accident or if there happen to be a hole in the article, the one part of the
machine can repair the article the other part being stationary.
The working of the handle or crank is regulated in such manner that each of the
sets of locks drive one part of the machine that is to say: one set drives the right
side and the other set drives the left side.

page_text: The width and the size of these machines vary according to the kind of work
they have to do. The size of the free space for the putting out of gear is according
to the size of the cams; these machines may also be made with three or more sets
of locks and may be driven either by steam or any other motive power; if grooves
are made upon the whole width and if there is a carrier with one set of locks, the
machine may be used for a double purpose, either to make two articles at the same
time with the double carrier; or to make articles of large size with the carrier with
one set of locks.
The advantage of this invention is that the workmen working with the double
machine will give 50 per cent more produce than the one working with the single
machine.
Each needle slides between two steel laths or watch springs of more or less
thickness. These laths placed against the partitions or bars of the grooves are
secured at the top part by means of the key of the needles and at the bottom part
by means of the key of the supports where a knee which is adapted at the bottom
part of the partition is held between the said partition and the top of the key of
the supports.
The latter improvement presents the advantage that the laths are not put out of
order when one of the needles falls out during the working.
Upon the parts of the carrier which are in contact with the locks of the needles
laths made of hardened steel are fixed by means of screws in order to prevent the
wearing of the carrier.
The laths either of the grooves or of the carrier may be renewed but the main
parts of the machine remain intact.
These improvements may be applied as well to the single machine.
They give the following advantages
1st The machine will last indefinitely.
2nd It will be always in good working order.
3rd The friction on the hardened steel will polish it and thus the working will
be lighter.