IMPROVEMENTS IN HOSIERY FRAMES OR MACHINERY FOR FRAMEWORK KNITTING
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOSIERY FRAMES OR MACHINERY FOR
FRAMEWORK KNITTING."-A communication from abroad by Benoit
Peyron and Germain Junior, of 37, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle,
Paris, France.
Sealed the 19th January 1872, and dated the 21st July 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge.
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 21st July 1871.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand,
5 in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOSIERY FRAMES OR MACHINERY
FOR FRAMEWORK KNITTING," a communication to me from abroad by Benoit
Peyron and Germain Junior, of 37, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, Paris,
France, Manufacturers, to be as follows:-

page_text: which the web runs and slides easily. These self-acting needles.
replacing the presser all that is now required is the feeder, the sinker,
and the enterer.
This Invention consists in the application of the self-acting needle
to both circular and rectilineal frames with horizontal needle bar
("fonture"). This application is very simple. The sinker and the
enterer are the same as for the ordinary circular frame.
Between these
two pieces the thread guided by a small tube or feeder places itself
beneath the hook of the needle.. But the production of a circular
endless web is not sufficient, a good selvedge web, that is to say, a
web with two borders, must also be manufactured. It therefore became
necessary to give a come-and-go movement to this arrangement, the
needles remaining fixed. For this purpose the sinker is formed of a
regular triangular piece having its base parallel with the piece which
supports the needles. This sinker is shown Fig. 4. A, B, C, the sinker ;
O, rod supporting it. Its regularity permits it to work to the right,
as well as to the left. The feeder is moveable around the rod which
supports the sinker.
Let us suppose the arrangement to be working
from left to right, arrived at the end of its journey the feeder comes
against a fixed piece, which causes it to pivot around the sinker and
carries it to the opposite side to that on which it was, so that it is ready
to act from right to left, see Fig. 5, in which A, B, C, indicate the
sinker; D, rod of the sinker and feeder; F, F, needle bar ("fonture");
H, feeder; I, hole in the feeder through which passes the thread;
K, K, heads of the needles; M, M, plates, adjuncts of the sinker, and
indispensable in all hosiery frames; N, N₁, fixed pieces against which
comes the feeder, and which push it back to the other side of the sinker
as indicated by the dotted lines at O.
One
The enterer placed slightly in front of the feeder (but naturally
beneath the needles) consists of a piece with two pivoting arms.
of the arms works from right to left, the other from left to right. That
which is in action when arrived at the end of its journey (from right
to left for example) strikes against a fixed piece similar to that which
causes the feeder to pivot. It is compelled by this piece to retire from
the frame, and the pivot acting, the inactive arm works in its turn in
the inverse direction (from left to right), see Fig. 6. A, needles; B, piece
against which the enterer strikes; D, C, D', enterer; C, pivot of the
enterer; D, D¹, arms of the enterer; F, F, needle bar. This Figure

page_text: represents the end of the journey of the enterer from left to right.
The arm D¹ is pushed away by the piece B, and the arm D is about to
commence working from right to left.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th January 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special
licence that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Gedge
my executors, 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 HOSIERY FRAMES OR MACHINERY FOR FRAMEWORK KNITTING," a
communication to me from abroad by Benoit Peyron and Germain
Junior, of 37, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Gedge,
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
Scal 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 Edward Gedge, 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 bad to the accompanying

page_text: arm D is pushed away by the piece B, and the arm D is about to
commence working from right to left.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of January, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.