Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1888
..Specification Accepted, 15th Jan., 1889
THOMAS KIDDIER, JAMES KIDDIER and JOHN WILLIAM KIDDIER, all of the firm.
known as the Hosiery Machine Building Company "Machinists" at the Town and
County of the Town of Nottingham 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 :-
Our Invention relates to Knitting Machines, generally known in the Hosiery Trade
as "Cottons" machinery where bearded needles are employed, the beards of these
needles being operated upon by plane presser bars which press the beards into the
eyes of the needles simultaneously.
Now our Improvements consists in forming the presser bar with notches or recessed
spaces and so arranging them that they have end wise traverse motions both to the
right or left, and operating in conjunction with stops for the carrier bars, perform
various intermittant movements automatically for the purpose of loosing or gaining
loops as the manufacture of Scotch Hats or bonnets or other fabrics necessitating the
needles to be pressed and mispressed at intervals.
But in order that our Invention may be the better understood we will by the aid of
the accompanying drawings proceed to describle means persued by us in carrying
the same into effect.
In each of the said figures the same letters are employed to indicate the corre
sponding parts. Fig. 1. represents an end elevation of parts of a machine generally
known in the Hosiery Trade, as a "Cottons Frame." On the cam shaft a, shewn also
at the side elevation Fig. 2. is affixed the cam b, having internal and external elevations
from its surface c, d, acting on the truck e, affixed to the lever f, the upper portion
being provided with a clawker g¹, working into a ratchet wheel h, attached to a
serrated heart wheel i, revolving on a stud j, shewn also at end elevation Fig. 3..
On the ratchet wheel h, is affixed a cam k, acting on the lever l, allowing the truck e,
to be moved on the internal part of the cam c, by means of the lever m, and spring n,
thereby changing the time of ratcheting, during the operation of widening, the

page_text: lever 1, then operates on the truck e, by reason of the spring o, being more powerfull
than the spring n, and returns the truck e, on the external surface d, of the
cam b.
The recessed presser bar shewn at p. Fig. 4. is affixed to a slide 9, provided with a
projecting bracket r, which is kept to contact with the serrations on the wheel i, by
means of the weights, and cord t, the projecting bracket q¹, acting as stops for the
carrier bars.
It will now be seen that when the recessed parts of the presser bar p. is opposite a
needle or series of needles the beards will not be pressed and consequently the loops
already on those needles will be retained and the needles opposite the whole portion
of the presser bar, will be pressed and loops formed in the ordinary manner.
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
(Firstly). The traversing presser bar for the use and purpose as set forth sub-
stantially as described and illustrated by the annexed drawings.
(Secondly). The method of changing the time of racking, the serrated wheel, as
set forth substantially as described and illustrated by the annexed drawings.
1
1000
THOMAS KIDDIER.
JAMES KIDDIER.
JOHN WILLIAM KIDDIER.