IMPROVEMENTS IN KNITTING MACHINES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Moses Mellor, of the Firm of Moses Mellor and
Sons, of Arkwright Street, Nottingham, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN KNITTING MACHINES."-.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Moses Mellor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st November 1881.
HENRY MOSES MELLOR, of the Firm of Moses Mellor and Sons, of Arkwright
Street, Nottingham. "IMPROVEMENTS IN KNITTING MACHINES."
This Invention has for its object improvements in knitting machines.
For this purpose in place of causing the thread layer to lay its thread on to the
needles I cause it to lay its thread on to the divider sinkers during the time that
a previous partially formed course of work is being completed upon the needles.
The faller sinkers or jacks I cause to act at right or other angles to the divider
sinkers to form the thread into loops between every other sinker or every sinker
as I prefer, so that when the needles again rise or come forward after the completion.
of the course of work the divider sinkers with these new loops resting upon them
may at once move forward between the needles until the catches of the divider
siukers press the loops against the needles below their beards, the faller sinkers or
jacks having previously been lifted or moved back out of the way.
So soon as the new loops have thus been laid on to the needles the needles
descend until the new loops are underneath their beards, and then when the
divider sinkers have been drawn back or partially drawn back from between the
needles the thread layer may at once commence to lay a new thread on to the
divider sinkers, whilst the completion of the course of work on the needles proceeds
in the ordinary manner.
As many divider sinkers are provided as there are needles.
It will readily be seen that by this means of working increased speed is

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry Moses Mellor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th May 1882.
HENRY MOSES MELLOR, of the Firm of Moses Mellor and Sons, of Arkwright
Street, Nottingham. "IMPROVEMENTS IN KNITTING MACHINES."
This Invention has for its object improvements in knitting machines.
For this purpose in place of causing the thread layer to lay its thread onto the
needles I cause it to lay its thread on to the divider sinkers during the time that a
previous partially formed course of work is being completed upon the needles.
The faller sinkers or jacks I cause to act at right or other angles to the divider
sinkers to form the thread into loops between every other sinker, or it may be
every sinker, so that when the needles again rise or come forward after the com-
pletion of the course of work, the divider sinkers with these new loops resting upon
them may at once move forward between the needles until the catches of the divider
sinkers press the loops against the needles below their beards, the faller sinkers
or jacks having previously been lifted or moved back out of the way.
So soon as the new loops have thus been laid on to the needles the needles
descend until the new loops are underneath their beards, and then when the divider
sinkers have been drawn back or partially drawn back from between the needles the
thread layer may at once commence to lay a new thread on to the divider sinkers
whilst the completion of the course of work on the needles proceeds in the ordinary
manner.
As many divider sinkers are provided as there are needles.
It will readily be seen that by this means of working increased speed is
obtained.
Figure 1 of the Drawings hereunto annexed is a part section of an ordinary
vertical moveable needle bar frame adapted to work in the manner above described.
Figures 2, 3, and 4 are a plan, side elevation, and front elevation of some of the
jacks, sinkers, and needles.
A, A, are the jacks with sinker ends; B are the divider sinkers; Care the needles
carried by the moveable needle bar Cs; D is a moveable presser bar for closing the
beards of the needles prior to knocking over; E is a moveable sinker bar for moving
the sinkers B towards and away from the needles; F and H are combs or tricks
for the sinkers B to ride in; G is a comb for the ends of the jacks to ride in to
keep them steady; I is the knocking over comb carried by the fixed rail V;
U is another fixed rail carrying the presser bar, jacks, and dividers; J, is a thread
layer carried by a thrend layer bar N moved to and fro in any ordinary manner.
The stem of the thread layer passes between two rods W, which keep it steady;
O is a fixed rail carrying bearings for the bars N ; L is a moveable bar for
bringing the jacks back into position; R, R, are small springs on the tail ends of
the jacks; they bear against the fixed bar P, and keep the jacks steady in any
position into which they are placed; M is a comb for the tail ends of the jacks
to work through; it keeps them divided and takes strain from the jacks when the
incline of the slur cock K is drawn across them.
The action is as follows:-
-When the jacks have been all lifted by the descent of
the bar L, a thread is layed by the thread layer J onto the top of the sinkers B;
the jacks are by the action of the slur cock made to descend in succession and
form the thread into loops between the sinkers; the sinkers are then moved
forwards by the movement of the sinker bar E, and as they carry the thread
towards the needles the jacks are by the descent of the bar L lifted up out of the

page_text: way. The needles then descend and the presser bar goes forward to close their
beards. Immediately that the points of the beards of the needles have by the
descent of the needles been carried below the thread which is held against them
by the sinkers the sinkers are drawn back by the sinker bar, and the thread layer at
once commences to lay a thread above them whilst the needles continue to descend
for the completion of the course of work upon the needles to be proceeded with,
and the completion of the course of work is effected in the ordinary manner.
Afterwards after the needles have been again raised the divided thread lying upon
the sinkers is as before described carried by them onto the needles so that loss of
time is avoided.
The successive positions of the parts for performing the above described
operations are shewn in diagrams 1 to 6.
In the Drawings the operative parts only of the machine are shewn, and not the
parts for giving motion to them; these parts may be arranged in any of the
ordinary well known ways.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of performing
the same, I would have it understood that I claim,―
First. The combination of the parts of knitting machinery substantially in the
manner herein before described and illustrated in the Drawings annexed.
Second. Laying the thread on to instruments at right angles to the needles and
dividing the thread into loops parallel with the needles or approximately so in
place of at right angles to the needles as heretofore.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Moses Mellor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
HENRY MOSES MELLOR.
(L.S.)