Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 8th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 14th Jan., 1887.
We John HARRIS Cooper Evington Hall & Friars Causeway Léicester Manufacturer
& WILLIAM JAMES FORD Humberstone & Friars Causeway Leicester Manager do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
The object of our invention is mainly to make gloves complete without. the thumb
upon knitting machines of the type known as the "Lamb knitting machine."
We use the modifications of this machine described in the Specifications of Letters
Patents obtained and applied for by us Nos. 1450-14237 and 14238 in the year 1885.
To form a glove upon machines of this type we drop a needle or needles to any
width of rib required for the wristband and then work a suitable number of courses.
Afterwards the dropped needles are brought into work.
We then commence to work the hand by throwing the two carriers the full width
of same and after a suitable number of courses have been made we transfer or narrow
to each side one or more loops between the fingers we then bring into work eight
finger carriers. We use a double carrier bar a grooved bar with suitable tops to allow
of the fingers being made tubular without a seam. The thumb is also made by means
of the finger carriers and is afterwards put in by hand.
The loops in the wrist band and end of the fingers are taken up by hand and the
glove is then completo.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Gloves, and Machinery therefor.
We, JOHN HARRIS COOPER, Evington Hall, & Friars Causeway, Leicester,
Manufacturer, and WILLIAM JAMES FORD, Humberstone & Friars Causeway,
Leicester, Manager, 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 :-
The object of our invention is mainly to make gloves complete without the thumb
upon knitting machines of the type known as the Lamb knitting machine.
The palm of the hand we make tubular a single thread eye being used when making
the palm and made to traverse to and fro over the whole of the needles on which such
tubular fabric is to be made.
When the palm has been completed this thread eye is put out of action. To allow
of the fingers of a glove being then made each tubular and without a seam-we use
other thread guides carried on two parallel bars, that is, a double carrier bar.
The guides are carried by blocks sliding along the bars-and are carried alternately
first a guide carried from one bar for forming one finger, then a guide carried from
the next bar for forming the next finger and so on. On each bar stops are also
provided which limit the travel of the blocks carrying the thread eyes so as to allow
each thread guide to travel only the distance required for making the finger which it
is to form. The thumb pieces can be made on any ordinary flat machine and can be
put in afterwards in any ordinary manner.
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Fig. 1 is a front view and Fig. 2 a vertical section of a machine constructed
according to our invention. For the most part it is of the ordinary Lamb type with
two inclined needle beds approximately at right angles to one another. The cams
which are slidden to and fro endwise of each necdle are not shewn in the drawing nor
does the drawing shew,the, means used for giving movement to the cams-these may
be of ordinary construction. The drawing shews a machine adapted only for making
a single glove. A machine for making a pair of gloves would be of double the
length with two thread eyes for making the two hands one for each and eight
thread eyes for the fingers, four for each glove. The drawings shew the parts in
position for making the fingers.
A are brackets fixed to the ends of the frame of the machine-in each is a socket to
receive a stem projecting downwards from pieces B which form continuations of the
brackets.
Care standards rising up from the brackets B and carrying a number of thread
eyes D through which threads are led to the traversing thread guides-E is a grooved
bar passing across from one bracket B to the other. On it slides a ring F-the ring
is prevented from turning on the bar by a pin G passing through it and entering the
groove. His a projection on the underside of the ring for actuating the thread eyes
used when forming the fingers.

page_text: When the fingers are being made it is moved endwise to and fro along the bar E
by an arm Z' in the manner shewn and as is described in the Specification of a Patent
granted to us No. 1450 in the year 1885.
JJ are the blocks by which the thread eyes for forming the fingers are carried-
they can slide to and fro along carrier bars Iand are carried alternately by the two
bars-first one block upon the front bar then the next on the back bar and so on.
KK are stops on the bar to limit the travel of each block. Jare springs interposed
between the top of the bars Land the upper parts of the blocks J-they allow the
blocks J to be pressed downwards from the position in which they are shewn and
afterwards bring them back again to their former position. I are projections on the
top of the finger carrier blocks J-their sides are inclined as shewn and so also are the
sides of the projection H on the ring F.
When the ring F is moved along the bar E its projection H comes against the
projection I of the first block J and shifts it along its bar L until it is arrested by a
stop K. As the ring continues its travel the projection H forces the block downwards
and so moves past it. At the same time it comes against the projection I of the next
block and makes this block complete its traverse and so on. The stops for the blocks
on the front bar L are marked K and those on the back bar K. Mis a bolt to hold
the brackets B in place-there is one at each end of machine but one only is shown.
O is a spring take up for the thread of the thread carrier used when forming the
hand.
Pare the end frames of the Lamb machine. The bed for the needles carried by
each of the inclined bed plates of the machine is divided into four segments. When
the fingers are being made the segments are separated one from another as shown-
they are drawn apart in this manner by rods one from each end of the machine
although one only is shown in the drawing. When the segments are so drawn apart
they are held firm by bolts S. Each rod is forked as shown at Figure 2 so that it
may act simultaneously on the needle segments of both inclined bed plates. W is the
plate that the needle segments slide upon-in it is a longitudinal groove U. A
projection on each segment passes into this groove. Two nuts X on the rod R hold
between them this projection of the outermost segment-another nut X on the rod
comes against the projection of the next segment and draws this segment up to the
stop T when the parts are drawn into the position shewn in Figure 1. Y seen in
Figure 2 is the thread carrier for forming the hand piece-it is shown to be thrown
back and out of action during the time the fingers are being made: Z is a spring
catch to hold it back. Z2 shown in section are the bars of the ordinary Lamb
machine.
When a hand piece is to be made the latch or bolt at the top of the arm Z' is
disconnected from the ring F and the thread carriers J used when forming the fingers
are raised so as to move them out of the way-the thread carrier Y is then turned
downwards and brought into work and as the hand is made the finger threads go down
with it.
Instead of making each of the blocks J which carry the thread eyes for making the
fingers depressible on the bar L to allow the ring F to pass it-the ring might be made
as shewn at Figures 3 and 4 to oscillate whilst being traversed to and fro along the
bar E and a projection Z³ from it be so made to engage into a slot Z' on a thread
carrier on one bar L then to free itself from this thread carrier and engage into a
slot Z in the next carrier block which slides on the opposite bar L and so on.
The oscillating motion is given to the ring by the slot in the tube E into which the
pin Z enters being shaped as shown at Figures 3. Z is a recess in the ring F into
which the driver enters to move the ring endwise along the bar E.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we would state that we are
aware that there is no novelty in using moveable segments on a knitting machine

page_text: of the Lamb type and that they have before been used for various other purposes
but we declare that what we claim is
1. The combination with a knitting machine of the type known as Lamb knitting
machines of two bars carrying alternate thread guides for forming the fingers of gloves
or such like small tubular fabrics.
2. The combination of machinery for making gloves substantially as herein before
described.
3. The manufacture of gloves with a seamless hand and seamless fingers substantially
in the manner herein before described.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.