An Improved Apparatus applicable to any Circular Knitting Machine for Making Pressed Patterns with Alternate Flat Rows of Mesh-s.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Jan., 1899- Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1899
An Improved Apparatus applicable to any Circular Knitting Machine
for Making Pressed Patterns with Alternate Flat Rows of Mesh-s.
I, GOTTLIEB BENGER, of 70, Böblingerstrasse, Stuttgart, in the Empire of Ger-
many, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be part cularly described and ascertaine
in and by the following statement:-
The invention hereinafter described relates to an apparatus which is easily
arranged on any circular knitting machine with hook needles for making pressed!
patterns for knitted goods in such a way that between the rows of meshes con-
taining the pattern meshes, a suitable number of rows of ordinary knitting may
be inserted, for which object a specially constructed large machine was hitherto
necessary whilst by means of this improved simple apparatus such pressed pattern
articles may be produced on any suitable small circular knitting machine with
hook needles. The improvement consists essentially in the arrangement of a
separate wheel for pressing down the needles for forming ordinary meshes, auto;
matically operated, that is to say raised or lowered by a pattern wheel having
removable pattern plates. In order to make ordinary rows of meshes this pres-
sing down wheel is lowered and for making pattern rows of meshes it is raised,
in the latter case the ordinary and pattern meshes are produced by a separate
pattern pressing wheel in the ordinary way by pressing down or not pressing down.
the meshes. If the smooth pressing down wheel be lowered all the meshes are
pressed down that is to say ordinary mesli rows are produced. The pattern press
wheel works on continuously but only comes into action when the ordinary mesh
pressing wheel is raised, that is, is not in action.
Such an apparatus is shown in the accompanying drawings arranged on a cir-
cular knitting machine.
Figure 1 being a vertical section.
Figure 2a plan view,
Figures 3 to 6 are 2 vertical elevations, a horizontal eleva'ion and vertical section
respectively on an enlarged scale.
is attached
to a stationary disc W of the circular knitting machine in such a way that it lies
closely behind the mesh forming device. The support G which is forked in front
into two arms G and G2 has a slide C in the one arm G¹, which slide carries below
a pin B capable of being adjusted and fixed in a slot or eyelet c, and in which
slide also a support pin or spindle 6 of the flat or smooth mesh pressing down
wheel A is pivotally and adjustably mounted. This slide C is moved downwards
by means of a lever E and constantly drawn upwards by means of a spring f¹.
In its movement upwards or downwards the slide C is adjustable by means of a set
screw on its upper part and a stop D adjustable by means of a screw d which
bears against the support arm G¹. The slide C receives its movement by means
of removable pattern or design plates etc. of a pattern wheel J, which plates
The apparatus consists of a support G which by means of a screw

page_text: press against the roller e¹ of the two armed lever E and lift the lever E and thus
depress the slide C which is engaged with its pin in the other end of said lever.
The design or pattern wheel J or rather its axis O is mounted in two carriers H.
and H vertically adjustable on the support arm G2 and is moved intermittently
by means of a ratchet wheel K, a projection q Figure 4 mounted on the circular
needle bar encountering a pivotally mounted pawl lever L at each circuit round
a stationary disc W, pawl 7 of said lever engaging in the ratchet wheel K and
moving the ratchet wheel one tooth forward. Instead of only one projection q
several such may be employed on one periphery. Any backward rotation of the
ratchet wheel is prevented by a counter pawl 1.
When the roller e¹ of the lever E rests on one of the pattern plates etc. the
ordinary mesh pressing wheel is lowered and all the meshes of the row of meshes
in question are pressed flat. If on the other hand the roller e¹ lies between two
pattern plates, that is to say, is lowered, the ordinary mesh pressing wheel is
raised and out of action. In this case the pattern pressing wheel P which lying
behind the ordinary mesh pressing wheel A is mounted on a vertically adjust-
able rod of the support G. comes into operation.
According to the form of the removable design or pattern plates etc. of
the pattern wheel J it is possible to cause figured impressed pattern rows of meshes
to alternate in the simplest manner with suitable number of ordinary rows of
meshes, that is to say to make all variations of press pattern goods by attaching
the simple apparatus to any ordinary machine. Of course the throwing in or out
of gear of the ordinary mesh pressing wheel may also be effected in other ways
to the one herein before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
An apparatus for making pressed pattern goods, (the rows of pattern meshes of
which alternate with rows of ordinary meshes) on ordinary circular knitting
machines with hook needles, said apparatus being capable of attachment to even
the smallest machines and characterized by a smooth vertically adjustable mesh
pressing wheel being mounted in front of the press wheel producing alternately
ordinary and pattern meshes, which mesh pressing wheel is automatically raised
and lowered by means of removable and suitably shaped pattern plates of a pat-
tern wheel intermittently operated by means of a ratchet wheel, and which when
lowered presses all the meshes of a row of meshes, thus producing ordinary mesh
rows, whilst when raised the pattern impressing wheel comes into action and
makes rows of pattern meshes, substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 28th day of January 1899
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.