Improvements in Jacquard Card Lacing, Peg Hole Punching, and Repeating Machines.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 13th May, 1889-Accepted, 13th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Jacquard Card Lacing, Peg Hole Punching, and
Repeating Machines.
I JAMES NUTTALL of 99 Heap Bridge near Bury in the County of Lancaster,
Machine inaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to Jacquard card lacing machines and consists in an improved
machine for lacing jacquard cards selfactingly and in the combination of said machine
with apparatus for punching the pegholes in Jacquard cards and in the combination
of lacing machines with selfacting Jacquard card repeating machines. I lace
Jacquard cards by sewing to one or both sides of said cards tapes by means of
twine passed through said tapes and cards, which I effect by means of a selfacting
machine constructed as follows:
The machine consists of two side frames bound together by a top plate or table and
having a cross shaft at either end carrying pulleys provided with driving pegs upon
which endless link chains are placed. The links are so arranged that the length
of each two such links is equal to the breadth of one of the cards to be laced,
one of each two links being formed with a hole into which the pegs of the chain
pulleys can enter, and the other link carrying a peg for feeding the cards into the
machine. Upon the table I arrange on each side adjustable plates each having a
groove in it into which one of the link chains is inserted so that only the pegs on
the links project above the surface of the plate. The chains pass through these
grooves above the table and return underneath the table. The cards to be laced may
have the pattern and pegholes punched into them or may be blank cards for repeating
machines with only the pegholes punched into them, which may be conveniently done
on the apparatus for punching the holes hereinafter described and attached to the
lacing machine. The cards are placed with their pegholes upon the pegs on the link
chains and carried forward by them as the pulleys on the cross shafts are rotated.
One of the cross shafts receives intermittent motion from the main driving shaft of
the machine by means of a single cog wheel on the main shaft actuating a star wheel
on a stud, the motion of which star wheel is communicated to the cross shaft through
spur gearing or by equivalent means. The other cross shaft is rotated through the
link chains and pegged pulleys from the former. There may be two or more such
link chains and pulleys for them according to the width of the cards to be laced and
the number of pegholes in the same. The grooved plates and pulleys are arranged so
as to be adjustable on the table for different widths of cards. The main shaft carries
at each side a cam giving a vertical up and down motion to a slide guided in suitable
guides. The two slides are attached to a cross bar hereinafter called needle bar
carrying two or more adjustable needle holders fitted with strong needles and thread
guides according to the number of lacings required. Above the needle bar I arrange
a creel for two bobbins for each needle one of which contains twine and is provided
with suitable arrangements for putting drag upon it and tension on the twine, the
other bobbin containing tape. Behind the needles another crossbar is supported
on studs or their equivalent fixed to the table and carries a presser foot for each
needle for pressing the cards upon the table, provided with a hole for the needle to
pass through and a slot in front of it for the guidance of the tape. When a second
tape is to be used on the underside of the cards I arrange other bobbins in front
of the machine below the table and carry the tapes from these through suitable
guides to the top of the table under the pressers. The cards to be laced are carried
forward by the link chains under the pressers and top tapes and over the bottom

page_text: tapes when these are used and are pierced together with the tapes by the needles,
which are made like ordinary sewing machine needles with eyes near the point.
Underneath the table I arrange for each needle a short shaft supported in a bracket
bolted to the table or grooved plate and carrying a looping hook at the end and
rotated through gearing from the main shaft of the machine. The hook seizes the
loop formed by the needle as it rises, opens it and twists it, and holds it open for
the needle to pass through on its next descent, producing a twisted chain stitch,
the shape of the hook and the method of forming the stitch being similar to those
of a Wilcox and Gibbs sewing machine. The feed motion for the cards is so
adjusted with reference to the stroke of the needle, that a descent of the needle
takes place between each two successive cards so that a locking or lacing of the
tape or tapes and the twine takes place between the cards, other stitches being made
through the cards. The chain of laced cards passes over the chain pulleys at the
back end of the machine which chain pulleys are formed with flanges to the rim
that lift the cards off the pegs on the link chains and allow them to be deposited
upon the floor, in case the machine is used independently. Change pieces may be
provided to lace cards of different breadth and the machine may be arranged for
driving by hand or power.
Where blank cards are to be laced for subsequent use on selfacting repeating
machines I punch the peg holes by preference by means of a peghole punching
machine or apparatus attached to the front of the lacing machine itself and worked by
a treadle. This apparatus may be arranged in any suitable way but is by preference
made as follows: "A cross rail is fixed to two vertical rods guided in bushes attached
to the frame sides of the lacing machine and carries punches, which pass through a
dripping plate and have below them dies fixed to the table of the machine. The
vertical rods are connected to a cross rail or its equivalent below the table, and
this crossrail carries in the centre a plate. with a slot through which a treadle
lever passes. The slot is made longer than the depth of the treadle lever, so that the
latter has vertical play in the same. The treadle lever is pulled upwards by a cord or
chain passing over a pulley and having a weight attached to its end. The vertical
bars have helical springs placed upon them which pull them and the punches upward.
The operative sits or stands before the machine and seizing a card places it upon the
dies against adjustable stops and then depresses the treadle and thereby draws the
punches down and punches the peg holes. He then quickly withdraws his foot, when
the springs draw the punching rail up and the weight lifts the treadle lever and
causes it to strike against the top of the slot and thus give a blow to the punch rail,
by means of which the card is effectually stripped off the punches. The attendant
who keeps hold of the card during the punching then places it upon the link chains of
the lacing machine hereinbefore described thus obviating the necessity of handling the
cards twice as is the case when the punching and lacing machine are separate.
My further improvement consists in the combination of peg hole punching and card
lacing machines with selfacting repeating machines. The machines which may be of
any suitable kind are either arranged upon a common framing or on separate frames
and the lacing machine driven by preference from the driving shaft of the repeating
machine through gearing at such a speed that one card is laced for every card
punched on the repeating machine. The cards have seriatim the pegholes punched
into them and are placed upon the lacing machine which laces them together and
deliver the chain of cards to the repeating machine, which punches the design and
delivers the cards upon the floor. The chain of cards is allowed to bang slack
between the delivery part of the lacing machine and the feeding part of the repeating
machine in order to allow for differences in the speeds of the said delivery and feed,
the machines however being so speeded as to deliver each one card in the same time.
By this arrangement one operator can attend to the two machines instead of two
being required and the cards are only handled once instead of several times. Instead
of the lacing machine being driven by gearing from the driving shaft of the repeating
machine, the driving shafts of both machines may be driven through gearing from a

page_text: third shaft at such speeds that each machine performs its work on a card in the
same time.
11000
EMMOTT & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Jacquard Card Lacing, Peg Hole Punching, and
Repeating Machines.
I, JAMES NUTTALL of 99 Heap Bridge near Bury in the County of Lancaster,
Machine Maker 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 :-
My invention relates to Jacquard card lacing, peg hole punching and repeating
machines and consists in an improved machine for lacing Jacquard cards selfactingly
and in the combination of said machine with apparatus for punching the pegholes in
Jacquard cards and in the combination of lacing machines with selfacting Jacquard
card repeating machines. I lace Jacquard cards together by sewing to one or both
sides of said cards tapes by means of twine passed through said tapes and cards, and
effect this by means of a selfacting machine.
On the sheet of drawings appended hereunto fig. 1 shows a sectional side view and
fig. 2 a sectional front view, sectioned along line A. B. of fig. 1, of the lacing
machine; fig. 3 shows a front view of the peghole punching apparatus attached to the
machine, figs. 4 and 5 show details.
The machine consists of two side frames a a connected by cross rails bb and a
top plate or table c, consisting of a square frame open in the middle. To the frame
sides brackets d and e are fixed supporting cross shafts d' and e¹. The shaid¹
carries polygonal pulleys d², the number of pulleys corresponding to the number of
pegholes in the cards. On the drawings the machine is shown as arranged for
three pegholes, one near each end and one in the middle of the cards, but it may
be arranged for only two or for more than three pegholes. The other cross-shaft e
carries circular grooved pulleys e². Over the pulleys d² and e³ chains ff are placed,
formed of flat links f¹f as shown on an enlarged scale by fig. 4, the links having
alternately a peg f³ and a peg hole f4, and being of such length that each pair
equals the width of the cards to be laced. The pulleys d have pegs on every
alternate side which fit into the pegholes f of the chains so that the rotation of
the pulleys d² carries the chains forward. Each chain passes through a groove in
a plate g fixed to the top of the table c in such a manner that it can be adjusted
laterally. The grooves are of a depth equal to the thickness of the chain links so that
the pegs f³ only project above them. The cards to be laced are placed successively
on these pegs with their pegholes, and are carried forward by the movement of the
chains. The shaft d¹ with pulleys d' receives an intermittent motion from the main
driving shaft h. The latter is carried in brackets ¹ h¹ and rotated by a pulley or
by hand. It carries on one side of the machine a single peg wheel h² with peg h³
and rim h imparting an intermittent motion to a starwheel h³ revolving on a stud
fixed to the frame. The intermittent motion is transmitted through a pinion h
fixed to the star wheel and carrier wheels 17 h to a spur wheel on the cross
shaft d¹. The latter thus receives once during each revolution of the driving shaft
a motion of short duration which advances the chains ff by a certain distance corre-
sponding to the length of stitch to be produced, which length can be regulated by
changing the wheel A. The shaft e¹ is taken round by the chains. The plates g and
pulleys and e are arranged so as to be laterally adjustable suitably to different
lengths of cards.
The driving shaft h has at each side a grooved cam i fixed on it, imparting a

page_text: vertical up and down motion to two slide rods i¹¹ by means of bowls placed on
studs fixed to said rods. The rods are guided in bored pillars and carry angle
plates to which a cross bar & hereinafter called needle bar is fixed. The needle
bar carries two or more needle holders m according to the number of lacings to be
made in the cards. The needle holders are adjustable laterally on the needle bar and
fixed by means of wedges m¹ or their equivalents. In each holder m a strong
needle m² is fixed by means of a screw m³ or equivalent means. Each holder m
further carries a thread guide. Above the needle bar I arrange a creel for two
bobbins for each needle consisting of a board n carried by pillars n' and brackets n
and fitted with pegs n³ n¹ for the bobbins o and p. The bobbins o contain twine
which is taken from them as indicated by the dotted lines under a rod o¹ round the
grooved tension pulleys o³, through the thread guides o³ attached to the board n
through thread guides of attached to the needleholders m, and thence to the eyes of
the needles, the eyes being near to the needle point as usual in sewing machines.
Friction is put upon the pulleys o² by means of springs of of adjusted by nuts or on a
screwed rod o carried by brackets o' and the tension can be varied simultaneously for
the three twines by moving the rod 08 by means of the hand wheel o¹¹ and nut o¹0, and
separately for each twine by means of the nuts o7. The bobbins p contain tape and
have tension put upon them by springs or elastic washers tightened by handscrews pl
screwed upon the ends of the pegs n³. The tapes are taken from the bobbins through
guides p² and thence in front of the needles m* on to the top of the cards / under the
pressers g². I do not confine myself to the arrangement of thread guides and tension
apparatus herein described and illustrated by the drawings, but this may be arranged
in any other suitable ordinary manner.
Behind the needles two pillar studs q q fixed to the table ¢ pass through holes in a
bar g'.so that the latter can move up or down on them. The bar q' carries pressers q³
with broad plates at the bottom having holes for the needles to pass through and slots
at the front for the tapes to pass through and is pressed down by means of springs q³
adjustable by hand nuts q. When a second tape is to be used on the underside of
the cards, I arrange other bobbins in front of the needles below the table c and carry
the tapes from these through slots in the plates g to the top of the table under the
cards. The cards 1 to be laced are placed upon the pegs of the chains fand carried
forward by them under the pressers q2 and top tapes and over the bottom tapes when
these are used and are pierced together with the tapes by the needles m² when the
needlebar is drawn down by the cams i.
Underneath the table I arrange for each needle a bracket formed on or attached
to plates g with bosses in which a small shaft having a looping hooks formed or
attached to it rotates. The other end of the shaft carries a pinion which is driven
by a pinion fixed on the driving shaft through a carrier wheel mounted on a
stud fixed to the bracket r. The hook is shewn on an enlarged scale by fig. 5 and
is similar in shape to those used in a Willcox and Gibbs sewing machine. Its point s
seizes the loop formed by the needle thread as the needle rises and opens it; when it
has made half a revolution the right hand side of the loop is held in the grooves
while the left hand side slips off the point s³ and comes against the projections into
line with the former, which is through the further rotation of the hook pushed to the
left by the rounded edge so so that the loop is twisted when the needle makes its
next descent. As the fresh loop formed by the needle is seized by the point s¹,
the former loop slips off the rotating hook and is pulled tight by its further
rotation. The machine thus makes a twisted chain stitch similar to that formed
by a Willcocks and Gibbs sewing machine. The feed motion for the cards is so
adjusted that a descent of the needles takes place between each two succeeding
cards so that a locking or lacing of the tape or tapes and twine takes place
between the cards, other stitches being made through the cards. The plates gare
prolonged at the hack end beyond the chain pulleys & and stand up above them,
so that the pegs of the chains are drawn out of the cards, which are delivered on
the floor as shewn by the drawings or conducted direct to a repeating machine.

page_text: The machine may be arranged for power driving as shewn or fitted with flywheel
and crank for hand working.
The cards laced together may have their pattern holes punched in them or be
blank cards. Where blank cards are to be laced for subsequent use on repeating
machines, I punch the pegholes by preference by means of a peghole punching
machine or apparatus attached to the front of the lacing machine itself and worked
by a treadle. This apparatus may be made in any ordinary suitable way, but is
by preference made as shewn by figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings, fig. 3 shewing
a front view of the combined machine with the lacing part omitted. A cross bar t
is fixed to two rods guided in bushes u¹ of the cross plate u fixed to the
frame sides, a a.
To. the cross plate ua die plate u² and stripping plate 3 are
fixed and the cross bar t has two or more peghole punches 2 fixed to it. The
rods are connected to eyelinks ³ embracing excentrics v¹ formed on or fixed
to a shaft & supported in brackets v² attached to the frame sides. A lever vis fixed
upon the shaft and connected by a rod v to a treadle v, a weight being fixed to the
other end of the lever v. The cards are piled upon a table w in front of the machines,
from which the operator takes them one by one and pushes them between the die
plate u and stripping plate u³, against a stop u (fig. 1) and then depresses the
treadle with his foot, bringing down the cross bar t and punching the pegholes. He
then withdraws or lifts his foot, when the weight turns the shaft v back and the
excentrics v¹ lift the cross rail and punch and strip the card off the ends of the punches.
The operator, who keeps hold of the card during the punching, then places it upon the
link chains of the lacing machine hereinbefore described thus obviating the necessity.
of handling the cards twice as is the case where the punching and lacing machines are
separate.
My further improvement consists in the combination of peghole punching and
card lacing machines with selfacting repeating machines. The machines which may
be of any suitable kind are either arranged upon a common framing or on separate
frames and the lacing machine driven by preference from the driving shaft of the
repeating machine through gearing at such a speed that one card is laced for every.
card punched on the repeating machine. The cards have first the pegholes punched
into them and are placed upon the lacing machine which laces them together and
delivers the chain of cards to the repeating machine which punches the design and
delivers the cards upon the floor. The chain of cards is allowed to hang slack
between the delivery part of the lacing machine and the feeding part of the repeating
machine in order to allow for differences in the speeds of the said delivery and feed,
the machines however being so speeded as to deliver each one card in the same
time. By this arrangement one operator can attend to the two machines instead
of two being required and the cards are only handled once instead of several times.
Instead of the lacing machine being driven by gearing from the driving shaft of
the repeating machine, the driving shafts of both machines may be driven through
gearing from a third shaft at such speeds that each machine performs its work on
a card in the same time.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
Firstly. The general arrangement of Jacquard card lacing machine substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings.
Secondly. In a Jacquard card lacing machine the combination with a needle bar m
actuated by cams and carrying two or more needles, of rotating looping books s,
pressers q², and pegged link chains freceiving an intermittent motion, substantially as
herein described and illustrated and for the purpose set forth.
.
Thirdly. The combination with a self acting Jacquard card lacing machine of a peg
hole punching machine or apparatus worked by a treadle substantially as herein
described.

page_text: Fourthly. The combination with a combined peghole punching and Jacquard card
lacing machine of a selfacting Jacquard card repeating machine connected to the said
lacing machine by shafts and wheel gearing in such a manner that each of said lacing
and repeating machines finishes its operation on one card in the same interval of time,
substantially as herein described and for the purpose set forth.
EMMOTT & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.