IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MACHINES FOR AND THE MANUFACTURE OF KNITTED GOD
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David McColley Weston, of Boston, Massachusetts,
United States of America, for the Invention of “IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MACHINES FOR AND THE MANUFACTURE OF KNITTED GOD”
Sealed the 9th August 1870, and dated the 18th May 1870.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said David McColley Weston at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 18th May 1870, pursuant to the 9th Section of
the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
McCOLLEY WESTON, of Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America,
send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MACHINES FOR AND THE MANUFACTURE OF KNITTED GOODS," and have .
petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators,
and assigns Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made
solomn Declaration that I am the true and first Inventor thereof.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said David McColley Weston, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification under my hand and
scal fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the samo is to be performed in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to
the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
The improvements consist in the combination with separately moving
latch needles of separately moving sinkers co-operating therewith to
draw off from the bobbin and to press down a sufficiency of yarn for cach
stitch; in a combination with such sinkers and needles of mechanism
for adjusting simultaneously the depth of descent of all the sinkers; in a
novel construction of the sinker cam, whereby one or more of the sinkers
in advance of the thread carrier shall be depressed before the needles
have moved outward, thus serving to hold the fabric or web against the
thrust of the needles and to ensure the passage of the latch through the
loop, such sinker or sinkers being then raised by the cam far enough to
permit the thread guide to pass without obstruction, but yet so that
while it shall not release the web it shall allow the last formed loop to
pass under it and be drawn through the loop previously formed;. in a
novel means for automatically stopping the machine upon the breaking
of the yarn; in the employment of an automatically rocking and
travelling bar for bringing reservo needles into action for the purpose of
widening; in providing the pattern wheel with a ratchet and pawls to
control the traverse of the rocking bar; in the combination of the
pattern wheel with the shifting mechanism, whereby the macliine shall
be automatically stopped when the widening is dono; in an improved
tension device; in other details hercin-after mentioned'; and also in an
improved seam for uniting the edges of widened machine knitted
fabrics.
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The machine is intended mainly for knitting the sleeves or legs of
garments, gores for under skirts and other articles or parts of articles
which need to be made wider at one part than at another, but it is also
adapted for making fabrics of uniform breadth whenever desired. In
making widened goods it commences at the narrower part, as, for
instance, the wrist of a sleeve, and automatically widens until it has
knitted the broader part, namely, at the shoulder, and then automatically
stops until enough needles at cither or both sides are moved by the
attendant beyond the action of the cam, and the 'machine again set in

page_text: motion to repeat the operation, thus making a continuous web composed
of many sleeves, &c.
Fig. 1 is a top view of the machine, the tension apparatus not being
shewn; Fig. 2 is a front view, its left end and the upright which
5 supports the tension apparatus and the stop rod being cut away;
Fig. 3 is a cross section in linc x, x, of Figures 1 and 2 with the tension
apparatus and stop rod in place.
Fig. 4 is a rear detached view of the pattern wheel, traversing bar, and
its appendages, and the means for causing the shifting of the driving
O wheel when the widening is completed, the bar and its finger being
shewn in the position assumed by them when they have just brought a
reservo needle into action.
Fig. 5 is a cross section at the line y, y, of Fig. 1, showing the rack
which gives to the widening bar its rocking motion to bring the reserve
needles into action at the proper periods.
Figures 6 and 7 represent of full size a needle and its stock and a
sinker.
The other Figures are half-size except Fig. 8, which is full sizo, and is
a substitute for 9, 10, and 11, scen in Fig. 1.
Upon a proper supporting frame A is secured the bed plate B, a
grooved space c between them receiving and permitting the reciprocation
of the latch needles and longitudinal ways in B, permitting the reci-
procation of the traversing plate D, which receives its motion directly
from the connecting rod E, which is firmly secured to the endless belt or
chain F, which passes over the pulleys G, G', both of the latter being
supported on the hanger I projecting from the frame A, the belt being
driven by means of the pulley I on shaft J from a steam engine or other
source of power. The belt is preferably given such a degree of tightness
as will bo sufficient to drive the machine when no unusual obstruction
or derangement occurs, but yet will allow it in such an event to slip
upon without being driven by the driving pulley. To the under side of
plato D is adjustably secured by means of screws K and washers the cam
picco L, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. This cam is preferably made
in the general form shown, its thickness at 1, 2, and 3, being about equal
to the full breadth of the cut in the needlestock and the curvature 4,
being designed to allow the needle a very brief rost aftor it has completed
its forward movement, and then a gradual commencement of its back

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motion at the period when the sinker is down to. Its lowest point
movement and with its fullest pressure and commencing to rise, and
hence there is avoided, that strain on the yarn, which would otherwise
occur if before the rising of the sinker the needle were to recede and
pull back its yarn... The rising of the sinker at once relieves the strain 5
of the loop. This provision is necessary in knitting fine goods from
inelastic single spun yarn.
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That portion of the cam shown at 5 and 6 is designed for another
special and important purpose. In niost if not all latch needle machines
latch openers are employed to insure that the latch shall be thrown 1
back, and the hook uncovered at the period when the yarn is to be
delivered to the hook for forming the next succeeding stitch. If the
latch opener be not employed there would be no certainty that the latch
would remain thrown back, and whenever a failure should in this respect
occur the result must be a lost stitch and defective goods. Now the 1
straight portions 5 and 6 so act relatively, to the needle during its
forward or advancing movement as to arrest it for a moment and give
it a slight period of rest just at that juncture when the loop last formed'
thereon, after having performed its duty of forcing back the latch, rests
upon and embraces it, confining it down upon the needle shank, and
thereby positively preventing the latch from flying forward from any
cause and covering the unthreaded hook. After this rest and after the
hook has been threaded a slight advance of the needle is needed in order
to slip the loop off the rear end of the latch, this is effected by the pro-
jection 2 on the cam. The holes in plate D, through which the screws K
pass, may be made somewhat larger than the screw to permit a slight
adjustment of the cam piece L to time properly this period of rest
relatively to the movements of the other parts of the mechanism, and
also to permit a forward and back' adjustment to render certain the
drawing of the last made loop entirely through the preceding one. The
wavy or zig-zag portions of the cam, as shown at M, M, are designed for
the purpose of tightening or shaking; down the loops of the stitches as
they are formed upon those already formed. N, N, are posts erected
upon the plate, they are screw-threaded at their tops and support a
plate O, which is secured thereon by nuts 7 and 8 above and beneath,
so that it may be raised or lowered when desired, and held in such
changed position to vary the point to which the sinkers may be caused
to descend, said sinkers being sustained by the edge of plate O, and
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operated by a cam projection o¹ on a carriage P, the latter being
supported upon and arranged to..slide on the plate O, as shewn, tho
sinkers Q being arranged to ride vertically in appropriate grooves formed
in the vertical fixed upright R, and also in the upright plate R'. The
yarn deliverci S is adjustably secured to the downward projection T of:
the yoke U, the latter being affixed to the reciprocating-sliding plate or:
carriage V. On the top surface of the cam carriage is secured a toothed
rack 9, and on the plate V is a corresponding rack 10. Affixed to,
plate O is a pinion 11, so located that its teeth shall engage with both:
of these racks. Upon the stationary frame or bed plate B are erected
fixed uprights or stops 12, against which (during the reciprocations of
the plate D and the parts which it carries) a projection. or pin on the.
under side of thread carrier slidov strikes for the purpose of arresting.
its further traverse; while the plate D continues its movement. This
continued movement of plato D, while the rack 10 remains stationary,
carries with it the pinion-11, which is geared with the rack 10 upon the
thread carriage and causes the rotation of the pinion, which thus drives
the other rack and consequently the sinker cam slide. By these meansi
the thread carrier and sinker cam are always brought into proper relative;
position as regards cach other at the end of each traverse, and: "the,
delivery eye of the thread' guide is also brought into tho proper position:
relatively to that sinker immediately adjacent to it, which will ensure its
sinking the thread just delivered to a needle.
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Instead of the pinion and its two racks other devices may be used
as modifications or as equivalents as, for instance, a lever with equal or
unequal arms (as desired) and a sliding box operated by either end of
the lever, the boxes being secured to the carriages in lieu of the racks.
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The novel construction of sinker actuating cam and its operation will
now be described:-One of the principal embarrassments in knitting a
close fabric in machines in which the latch needle is used arises from
the difficulty (hitherto almost insurmountable) of resisting the thrust of.
the needle, that is, the tendency of the needle to carry the loop forward.
with it, instead of merely passing through it for the proper distance;
and as the failure of the latch to pass completely through the loop pré-
vents the formation of a stitch every such failure must make imperfect!
goods, and this becomes a serious evil when it is attempted to widen thẻ.
web by bringing new needles into action, as the new stitches.formed on
these outer needles are not sensibly acted upon by the weight which.

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pulls down the web of knitted fabric, because such stitches are outside
of the vertical line in which the weight exerts its force, and they aro.
consequently pushed forward with the needles, and the needles thus
become loaded and the selvage broken. As a remedy for this the sinker
actuating cam is made in the form shown in Fig. 2, having, besides the
main cam curve 13, two other curves or swells 14, 14', one on either side
of and equally distant from the central curve 13. The operation of this
cam upon the sinkers is as follows: -A few of the sinkers (as at 16')
are brought down by the portion 14' of the cam before the needles arc.
thrown forward, thus forming a firm wall through which the needles:
may pass, but which positively resists and prevents the passage of those
loops which are upon the needles; this makes it certain that the latch
shall, as the needle advances, pass without fail through its last made
loop, and as a consequence ensures the formation of the stitch on the
retirement of the needle to its place. Now to prevent the needle upon
its next forward or advance movement passing again through this stitch.
and destroying it, it must be drawn down over the end of the needle as
it is discharged therefrom, so as to be beneath the line or plane of the
forward path of the same needle when advancing to make the next
stitch. This requires but little force in this machine, because the
advance depressed sinkers so effectually resist the thrust and rolicve
from the drag or pull of the loop upon the needle that it is found even
possible without using any weight at all to knit a few courses success-
fully, though of course some weight should be used in order to prevent
the stitches piling up upon the needles. The result of this action of the
sinkers is as follows:-First, on the web of uniform width a much
lighter weight than otherwise may be used, thus lessening the strain on
the yarn and needles, and there is a positivo certainty of a perfect
selvage; second, it ensures a perfect fabric with a poorer quality of
yaru; third, it enables the operator to produce a web of increasing
width with the same certainty of perfection that can be attained in
making goods of uniform width. Other advantages also flow from this
improvement, but of lesser importance than those specified.
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The motion produced by the sinker cam to produce these results may
be described as follows:-Each sinker is depressed so that its tip 20 (sec
Fig. 7) shall be below the line of its attendant needle before such needle
is moved forward. After this needle is thrust forward the sinker is
slightly raised, as seen at 19, to allow the thread carrier S to pass
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page_text: without obstruction from tho sinkers. The sinker is then again depressed
to draw down yarn enough to form the loop, as seen at 15; it then
remains stationary long enough to prevent one sinker from robbing
another sinker of its yarn, as, for instance, designating any three of the
sinkers as one, two, and three, when sinkers one and two had formed
their loops, and number one had risen before number three had formed
its loop, then, instead of drawing the yarn from the spool number three
would draw from the loop number one and destroy it; but this can
never occur if a sufficient number of sinkers be held stationary as in this
machine. The sinker now rises high enough to allow the loop to pass
under it, as at 21, namely, to the same height as at 19, to allow the
thread guide to pass it, then makes a falso downward.. movement, as
seen at 16, and then rises to its full height. This false or idle motion
when moving in one direction becomes the real and effective one upon
reversing the motion to make the next return course, and thus prevents
any necessity for reversing the cam.
A strained wire a is stretched across a part or all the front of the
framo, as seen in Fig. 2, and which performs an important duty at the
selvage as follows:-There is always at the edge of the knitted fabric a
tendency to curl up, and if this be not checked or prevented the sinkers
in descending at or near such edge would be apt to bear down upon such
curled edge of the goods, and cut or otherwise injuro or damage tho
goods. In a machine for making widened goods this wire should extend
far enough to reach à distanco sufficient to perform the above duty in
making the narrowest portion of the goods, and it is therefore convenient
to stretch a single wire across the whole front; but it would answer the
same purpose to have it extend from either side towards the middle for
the requisite distance. In a machine for making goods of uniform
width it need only extend a short distance inwards from the selvage.
The guards b, b, (scc Fig. 2) arc for the purpose of bearing off the yarn
leading from the edge of the web to the eye of the yarn guide when the
latter is at the extreme of its traverse, so as to prevent the yarn being
drawn in such a line or direction as to risk its getting behind the sinkers
which are outside of the needle on which the last stitch was made. .
The yarn take-up or tension device and the stop motion connected
therewith are constructed and operate as follows:-The tension appa-
ratus is sustained upon à rod or post 17 removably attached to the yarn.
carrier slide. To the top of this post is pivotted a vertically swinging

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lever 22, to one arm of which is connected a spiral spring 23, whose
lower extremity is secured to an adjustable sleeve or slide 24. .To the
other arm of the lever is permanently attached a long wire 25, having
an eye at its farthest extremity, and a thin very flexible spring 26 is
fastened to this wire, as shewn, and has at its extremity also an eye for
the thread. A ring friction pad 27 covered with cloth, leather, rubber,
or other suitable material to give a gentle drag to the thread is secured
upon the wire 25 at a point between the two eyes 28, 29. When the
pull upon the yarn in the act of knitting is the greatest, as, for instance,
when the sinker is in the act of pressing down the yarn, it is necessary 1
with the very delicate yarn used in making fine work that the resistance
against the free delivery of the yarn should-be as little as possible,
although at other times it needs to be sufficient to ensure the return of
all the slack yarn back through the thread carrier.
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In the above-described apparatus the normal position of the parts when 1
a take-up and resistance against too free a delivery are needed is about
as seen in Fig. 3. When however the pull upon the yarn passing from
its spool or bobbin (located wherever convenient) through the eye 29,
and pad 27 draws down the cye 29, so that it lies in the same line with
the pad and the eye 28 the yarn is relieved of its contact with 'and 2
friction upon the pad and delivers freely. A hanging rod 30 for effecting
the stop motion is suspended from the tension lever 22, its lower end..
being steadied in position by a guide socket or tube 31 on a projection
fastened to the rack 9. A slide bar 32 stationary, except when actuated
by rod 30, is provided with a series of equally distant depressions 33 2
adapted to receive the end of rod 30, whenever a break in the yarn
suffers it to be forced down by the coiled spring 23, the tension of the
yarn being at other times sufficient to keep it suspended. Two inclines
34 cut in the edge of bar 32 serve whenever the bar is shifted in either
direction to actuate the clutch lever 35 centered at 36, and force inwards 3
its lower arm, thereby shifting on its shaft the driving pulley I and
releasing it from the clutch 37, 38. The clutch 37 is rigidly affixed to
and revolves with the driving shaft, and drives the machine when its
two arms come in contact with the projections 38, 38, on the driving
wheel. The action is as follows:-Whenever upon the breaking of the a
yarn the spring 23 depresses the rod 30 the latter is thereby caused to
engage with the sliding bar 32, which then actuates the shifting clutch
as above stated. This stop motion is of great importance, for even if
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page_text: the thread should break within a few inches of the web no stitches will
be dropped nor imperfect work made requiring to be taken out or
mended up, for the stoppage takes place almost instantaneously after
the break. To lose a stitch by a break of the thread the break must be
near the eye of the thread carrier. This stop motion will also act
automatically whenever the yarn is fed without sufficient tension upon
it to ensure the proper working of the take-up. Instead of the bar 32
an endless chain or belt, or other equivalent device serving to com-
municate motion from the rod 30 to the driving mechanism may' be
employed.
The mechanism for bringing reserve needles into action for widening
is as follows:-A travelling bar 39 is placed at each end of the frame,
each bar having a series of equally distant teeth 40 on its upper side,
and being so supported in proper bearings that it may be moved
endwise, and also that it may be rocked on its axis in order to causo
its finger 41 to force into action one by one as wanted the reserved
needles. The needles are marked 42. When the bar 39 and finger 41
have been set, so as to be ready to bring into use the reserve needles 13,
or a portion of them (as may be determined by the pattern mechanism
hercin-after described) the machine is put in motion and the traversing
plate D by means of its advancing end d (or d', as the case may be)
lifts the arm 44 of the rock shaft 45, to which are attached two or more
pawls 46 for moving outward the rack bar 30, these pawls being pre-
ferably such that each shall slide the bar only a portion of the distance
from needle to needle, so that two or more actions of slide D on either
side of the machine are necessary to bring into action one needle upon
that side. The needle so brought into action is always that one of the
regular series of needles next adjacent to the one which formed the
outer selvage stitch of the last preceding course.
It is sometimes necessary to widen variably, say, at times, at every
fourth, at others at every sixth, and at others at every eighth course.
To effect this automatically a pattern wheel or disc 47 is used having
teeth to be acted upon by a pawl herein-after described, and having also
portions of its periphery concentric with, but of greater diameter than
the toothed portion, as seen at 49, 50. The slowness or rapidity with
which these several pawls will feed the rack will be dependant upon
the positions and height of these raised portions 49, as the wheel is
revolved a crank 51 on the pawl shaft being held up by them in its

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downward motion, thus restricting accordingly the range of motion and
the consequent feeding action of the pawls. Some of the raised parts
are made high enough to lift the pawls entirely out of action, so that the
widening rack shall not move, and in such case goods of even width or
straight web will be made. The number, length, or height of thesc
raised portions of the wheel may be made such as may be required for
any special work. The number of courses in the garment is determined
by the number of teeth in the ratchet wheel..
The rocking motion of bar 39 is effected as follows:-To the under
side of plate D and at each end of it is secured a slotted plate 51, the
mouth of the slots being somewhat widened to facilitate the entrance of
the pin or roller 52 connected with the rack 53. This rack gears with
a segmental pinion 54, through which the rod 39 slides, the two being
splined or keyed together, so that when the pinion is partially rotated
by the rack it shall rock the rod and bring the finger 41 into action.
The return of the slide plate D.causes a positive return of the rack 53
to its original position, as the slot 51 acts positively upon it in both
directions, and the spring 51 bearing down upon the gear 5 serves
to hold it in this position until again rocked. The toothed wheel is
actuated by a pawl 55 on the crank 56, the latter being actuated by the
samo means and in a similar manner with the pawls heretoforo named,
the edge serving to lift the arm 57 in the same way that it lifts thic
arm 44, but at an carlier period of time, so as to move the wheel first
and shift the rod next, the rocking of the rod being its next movement.
Springs 58, 59, acting upon pins on the arms 57 and 14 scrvo to bear
them down and restore them back to their normal positions.
The mechanism for stopping the machine when the widening is
completed is as follows:-Upon the outer face of the pattern wheel is a
cam piece or incline 60 upon an arm pivotted at 61 and stayed between
two stops 62, 63, to permit a slight play for a purpose herein-after stated.
An arm 61 rigidly affixed to a sliding rod 65 has its upper cnd when in
its normal position in immediate proximity to the outer face of the
pattern wheel, so that when the wheel shall nearly have made its
complete revolution and one widened garment has been nearly completed
the cam piece 60 will pass between the end of arm 64 and the whicel,
and by its outward pressure upon the arm force outward the rod 65,
which carries with it the yoke piccc 66 on its other end, which yoke fits
in a groove on the hub of the driving wheel I, and thus the whicel is

page_text: shifted away from the clutch.37.. The object of the slight play of the
cam piece 60 is that after the machine has been stopped, if it shall not
have left such piece entirely clear of the arm 64, it may be lifted so as
not to interfere with the adjustment of the arm and its rod to the proper
position for starting.
The means for communicating motion to the machine from the prime
motor will now be 'described, first promising that to drive a knitting
machine by a crank is very objectionable, inasmuch as there is no
possibility of attaining with it that uniform velocity which is very:
essential during the action of the needles and the formation of the
stitches. To avoid therefore this variable and varying velocity, which
would range from the zero or dead points to the other extremo, two
wheels G, G', are employed, and an endless belt or chain stretching
from one to the other, and there is connected rigidly to such belt a-metal'
piece or pin 67 having a journal thercon, on which the connecting rod E.
centres the rod, the rod also centreing on a pivot, where it is connected
to the reciprocating plate D. This mode of driving effectually avoids
any disadvantages which might result from the dead points, and prac-
tically ignores them so far as the knitting operations are concerned,
because the needles and other operative parts of the knitting mechanism
are actuated only while the pin 67 (and consequently the connecting
rod) is moving in horizontal lines, and while this pin is travelling around
cither of the pulleys the needles, sinkers, and yarn guides are not in tho
act of knitting.
The novel scam will now be described for uniting together two
selvages of the goods made on the above described machinc, first con-
trasting such selvages with those made on machines heretofore used for
widening. In such last-named machines it has been the practice to use
at both sides of the machine a shifting set of three, four, or more
needles, technically styled "selvage needles," these same "selvage
needles" always working to make the selvage, and the widening of the
fabric being effected by bringing into action as occasion may require
other needles, which are introduced as wanted between the inner one of
the set of selvage needles and the outer one of the series of needles which
make the main body of the fabric. The effect of such a mode of operation
is that a series of gaps or openings is unavoidably left in the goods
between the salvage made by these selvage needles and the other portion
of the fabric. These openings must therefore cither be left to mar the

page_text: fabric or they must be closed by hand work or by some subsequent
mechanical operation at much expense and loss of time and labour.
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By the novel mode of widening heretofore first described it will be seen
that no such defects are left in the fabric, but that the whole web'is
homogeneous and of precisely similar fabrication from edge to edge
however much it may be widened, and that the yarn which passes over
from one course to a third or other course beyond lies always at the
extreme outer edge, leaving, no gap or, opening or possibility of it
anywhere in the body of the goods, the consequence of which is that any
subsequent operations to cure defects from this cause are never required.
This mode of knitting also is productive of another most valuable result,
namely, an entirely new seam when two edges of the fabric are united
together by machinery or otherwise, the scam being also closer, and it is
also stronger than when selvages, made with selvage needles are united
together for the reason that it is well known that when such selvage
needles are employed the selvage so knitted is necessarily of looser
texture than the body of the goods, because of the continuous series of
openings between it and such; body. When these looped edges are
united together the yarn at the edge which passes from one course to
another reaching over the intervening course or courses becomes
surrounded by and enclosed within the stitches, which serve to unite the
edges, and aids to fill them and make the entire seam compact and close
but without in the least lessening its clasticity. ·

page_text: 5. Also as a means for bringing into action reserve needles an
automatically travelling and rocking bar.
6. Also a pattern wheel so constructed as to control and vary the
widening mechanism, as described.
7. Also the combination of a pattern wheel with the shifting mechanism
for automatically stopping the machine.
8. Also the means substantially as described for arresting the forward
movement of the needles whilst the loop is on the latch to insure the
keeping open of the hook to receive the yarn for the next stitch, and
then advancing them to the full extent of their forward movement.
9. Also the combination with stationary stops on the frame of the
sliding carriage of the thread carrier, the sinker cam carriage, and the
double-acting pinion and racks or their equivalents.
10. Also the combination with the main and auxiliary tension springs
of a friction ring or pad on the former, so arranged and located that a
slight strain on the yarn shall cause the eyes of the springs to coincide
in line with the straightened thread and relieve the same from the pad.
11. Also the combination with the tension springs of the lever and
adjusting spring for varying the tension.
12. Also the combination of two pulleys, an endless belt passing over
them, and a connecting rod secured to such belt as a means for actuating
the knitting mechanism.
13. Also the construction of the needle actuating cam with a series of
purpose described.
wavy or zig-zag portions M, M, for the
14. Also the novel seam herein described.
In witness whereof; I, the said David M.Colley Weston, have
hercunto set my hand and scal, the Twelfth day of May, in the
the knitting mechanism.
13. Also the construction of the needle actuating cam with a scries of
wavy or zig-zag portions M, M, for the purpose described.
14. Also the novel seam herein described.
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In witness whereof; I, the said David McColley Weston, have
hercunto set my hand and scal, the Twelfth day of May, in the
vear of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and soventy.
Witnesses,
A. H. BRANDON,
D. H. BRANDON,
DAVID MCCOLLEY WESTON. (L.S.)
13, Rue Gaillon, Paris.