Improvements in Knitted Fabrics and in Means or Apparatus employed therein.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 9th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Knitted Fabrics and in Means or Apparatus
employed therein.
THE NOTTINGHAM MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED of Station Street
in the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham and JOHN GROVES of
94 Leicester Road, Loughborough in the County of Leicester, Manager, and
JAMES WHATNALL of 5 Selbourne Street Loughborough aforesaid, Mechanic,
both in the employment of the said Nottingham Manufacturing Company Limited
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in knitted fabrics and in means or
apparatus employed therein.
The object of this invention is to throw in an extra thread or threads into the
fabric of a straight bar knitting machine which thread shall form a loop or loops at
the back over one or more needles to another needle or needles to be teazled or by
equivalent treatment formed into a fleecy surface or overlay if desired.
In order to accomplish this we give to the sinkers or certain of them a double
nib and adapt the ordinary carriers to carry the extra thread or threads either by
the same carrier or carriers or with a second carrier or second carriers as in
splicing.
Dated the 1st day of March 1893.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Knitted Fabrics and in Means or Apparatus
employed therein.
We THE NOTTINGHAM MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED, of Station
Street in the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, and JOHN GROVES
of 94 Leicester Road, Loughborough in the County of Leicester Manager, and
JAMES WHATNALL of 5 Selbourne Street, Loughborough aforesaid, Mechanic,
both in the employment of the said Nottingham Manufacturing Company Limited
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This invention relates to certain improvements in knitted fabrics and in means
or apparatus employed therein.
The object of this invention is to throw in an extra thread or threads into the
fabric of a straight bar knitting machine which thread shall form a loop or loops,
at the back over one or more needles to another needle or needles to be teazled or
by equivalent treatment formed into a fleecy surface or overlay if desired.
In order to accomplish this we give to the sinkers or certain of them a double
nib and adapt the ordinary carriers to carry the extra thread or threads either by
the same carrier or carriers or with a second carrier or second carriers as in
splicing.

page_text: Fig. 2 shews a sinker for our improved double nibbed sinker for the straight bar
knitting machine, a being the one nib and 6 the extra nib.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The construction and use of sinkers for straight frame knitting machines with extra
nibs thereto to facilitate the throwing in to the fabric of an extra thread or threads
in order that said extra thread or threads may form a loop or loops at the back
over one or more needles to another needle for the production of a fleecy or like
surface if desired as set forth.
Dated th
comber 1902
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.