Improvements in Running-on Machines used in the Manufacture of Knitted Fabrics.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 7th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Running-on Machines used in the Manufacture of
Knitted Fabrics.
We, THOMAS KIDDIER, JAMES KIDDIER, and JOHN WILLIAM KIDDIER, Machinists,
all of the firm known as the Hosiery Machine Building Company of Bell Street,
Arkwright Street in the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to running on machines used for looping parts of hose fabrics
produced on one machine on to points to transfer them on to the needles of other
knitting machines.
For example if a piece of work has been formed of one and one rib of 30 gauge
and the work has to be shifted to another machine to be continued as a two and
one rib of 20 gauge some of the needles of the 20 gauge will have to have two
loops placed upon them and others only one and this should be done uniformly so
that the needles which have two loops placed upon them are at uniform distances
apart. In doing this in the usual way by hand it frequently happens that the attendant
when putting the loops on to the points does not place them on regularly and in
addition it is difficult to see whether all the loops have been placed on to the points
and whether some of them have not been missed. In this way imperfect work is
produced.
To remedy this we cause all the loops to be run on to a row composed
alternately of bearded needles and points one needle or point heing provided_for
each loop so that it is easy to see whether all the loops are run on or not. Two
bearded needles are set in each of the spaces between the several points. One of
each of these needles we carry by one bar and the other by another and the plain
points by a third bar which can be lowered or raised at will. When the work
has been run on to the plain points and needles a bar carrying presser points is lowered
and the presser points brought on to the plain points-and the loops on these points
transferred to the presser points-the bar carrying the plain points is then moved
away and the loops on the presser points are caused to be transferred on to one or
other of the series of bearded needles thereby giving each of the needles of this series
double loops. One set of the bearded needles is also shogged a small distance side-
wise so as to bring the bearded needles of one set equidistant between the needles of
the other set.
The work can then be shifted in the ordinary manner on to the points of a carrier
bar of the same gauge as that which the needles are now in and can be conveyed
on these points to the machine in which the work is to be continued with a two
and one or other rib.
THOMAS KIDDIER.
JAMES KIDDIER.
JOHN WM. KIDDIER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Running-on Machines used in the Manufacture of
Knitted Fabrics.
We, THOMAS KIDDIER, JAMES KIDDIER, and JOHN WILLIAM KIDDIER, Machinists,
all of the firm known as the Hosiery Machine Building Company, of Bell Street,
Arkwright Street, in 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 running on machines used for looping parts of hose

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fabrics produced on one machine on to points to transfer them on to the needles of
other knitting machines.
For example if a piece of work has been formed of one and one rib of 30 gauge and
the work has to be shifted to another machine to be continued as a two and one rib
of 20 gauge some of the needles of the 20 gauge will have to have two loops placed
upon them and others only one and this should be done uniformly so that the needles
which have two loops placed upon them are at uniform distances apart. In doing this
in the usual way by hand it frequently happens that the attendant when putting the
loops on to the points does not place them on regularly and in addition it is difficult
to see whether all the loops have been placed on to: the points and whether some of
them have not been missed.
In this way imperfect work is produced.
To remedy this we cause all the loops to be run on to a row composed alternately
of bearded needles and points one needle or point being provided for each loop so that
it is easy to see whether all the loops are run on or not. Two bearded needles-are-set
in each of the spaces between the several points. One of each of these needles we
carry by one bar and the other by another and the plain points by a third bar which
can be lowered or raised at will. When the work has been run on to the plain points
and needles a bar carrying presser points is lowered and the presser points brought. on
to the plain points and the loops on these points transferred to the presser points-the
bar carrying the plain points is then moved away and the loops on the presser points
are caused to be transferred on to one or other of the series of bearded needles
thereby giving each of the needles of this series double loops. One set of the bearded
needles is also shogged a small distance sidewise so as to bring.the bearded needles of
one set equidistant between the needles of the other set.
The work can then be shifted in the ordinary manner on to the points of a
carrier bar of the same gauge as that which the needles are now in and can be
conveyed on these points to the machine in which the work is to be continued with a
two and one or other rib.
If more than two needles are used between successive plain points then in
place of the needles being carried by two bars they would be carried by
more bars.
In order that our Invention may be fully understood we have .shewn in..the
accompanying drawings various views. of a machine constructed in. the manner.we
prefer for carrying out our Invention.
Figures 1 and represent vertical cross sections of the machine. . In these. figures
the parts are shewn in two different positions. Figure 3 is a cross section. of part of
the same shewing the bar which carries the plain points turned into its raised. position.
Figure 4 is a plan of the machine when the parts are in the position.shewn, in
Figure. 2 but with some of the presser points removed from the bar which carries
them and with other of the points in the positions.they come into. when the bar is
...shogged sidewise after that loops have been taken on to the points—it also shows some
of the needles in the two sets equally spaced. In each of the figures the same letters,
are used to indicate corresponding parts.
On a shaft a is affixed the arms 6 carrying the axis e of a bar c on which are
mounted the presser points d, the bar can be raised to the position shewn in
figure 1-or lowered. at-will into that shewn at figure 2 and can also be oscillated on
its axis e. The arms can turn loosely around the shaft a and are held connected
together by the bar g on which are mounted the plain points h, but on which may
desired be placed bearded needles instead of these points. This bar can-also-be,raised
or lowered at will as shewn at figures 1 and 3. A bar i carrying bearded needles and
capable of being shogged endwise is mounted on a bar j which also carries bearded
needles and is affixed on the standards k of the machine.
if
In commencing operations the bearded needles in bars i and ; and plain points h on
"bar 9, are placed in position shewn at Figure 1 so that they are all in the same straight
"line and equidistant as shewn at A figure 4. "The rib top or other fabric is then run
on. to these needles and points by the attendant, the arms 6 carrying the presser
points d figure 1, are then towered on to 'the points mounted on the bar
affixed on
g

page_text: the arms fas shown at figure 2 and at B figure 4, and the loops on these plain points
transferred on to the presser points d by being pulled forward by hand, then by an
oscillating movement the attendant moves the presser point bar c on its axis e and
shoggs the bar so that the presser points d cover the adjacent needles on the bar i as
shewn at C figure 4 and then transfers the loops on the presser points d to this series
of bearded needles thereby giving them double loops. The arms bf are then raised as
shewn at figures 1 and 3. The series of bearded needles i, are now shogged a little
endwise to give then equal distances apart as shewn at D figure 4. To allow of the
bar being so shogged end wise it has short slots formed in it through which pass the
holding down bolts -sufficient friction may be placed upon the bar by the heads of
these bolts to retain the bar in any position into which it may be shogged and yet
allow of the workman shifting it end wise when he desires to do so.
A hand point
bar provided with covering points is then used by the attendant who places them on
the needles and removes the loops off these needles on to these points, it is then
carried to the knitting machine and transferred on to the knitting machine in the
usual manner.
our said
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The combination of the two or more sets of needles and the set of plain points
(or needles) which can be set equidistantly in one row and the presser points which can
take the loops from the plain points and transfer them to one or other of the two or
more sets of needles and be then moved out of the way together with the plain points
so that the distance between the needles in the two or more sets may be afterwards
equalized.
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2. The construction of running on machines substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated in the drawing annexed.
Thin 7th the 1800
THOMAS KIDDIER.
JAMES KIDDIER.
JOHN WM. KIDDIER.