IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY.
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Anthony John. Mundella, of the Town and County.
of the Town of Nottingham, Manufacturer, and William Onion, of the
..same Place, Mechanic, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Anthony John Mundella,
and William Onion, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 18th November 1861.
We, ANTHONY JOHN MUNDELLA, of the Town and County of the Town, of
Nottingham, Manufacturer, and WILLIAM ONION, of the same Place, Mechanic,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LOOPED FABRICS," to be as
follows:-
The needle bar with its needles is capable of sliding horizontally in a back-,
ward and forward direction, and above it is an adjustable falling bar, which
also acts as a locker bar; -on the top of the falling bar lie the jacks, which
have projections on the under side, the projections being just behind the heads.
of the sinkers which are rivetted to the jacks, the jacks lie in two sleys placed
behind, the falling bar between, and above these. sleys lies the slur cock bar,,
the cocks sliding on the top of the jacks. Where the jacks and sinkers are
rivetted: together we do not connect them as heretofore by slitting the head of
the jack and placing the sinker in the slit and rivetting it there; but we.
make the upper end of the sinker somewhat: longer than will reach to the top
side of the jack, and turn it down on one side to form a slot for the jack head...
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page_text: by which we can make use of a fine steel jack, and we are able to make a
frame with an inside of a much finer guage than can be made on the old
method. The back or tail end of the jack is somewhat enlarged, and forms a
hook on the under side, which hooks on the rounded top edge of a bar which
acts as an axle or centre for the jacks to rise and fall upon. Above the jacks,
over the locker bar, there is a false rim bar carrying a spring bar, the
springs holding the jacks up until forced down by the slur cocks at the back
of the jacks, and below them is a spindle bar moved by a cam on the main
cam or other suitable shaft; to the spindle bar are secured brackets which
carry the jack bars and sleys, the falling bar, slur cock bar, false rim bar, and
spring bar. This spindle bar can be moved as required horizontally for the
purpose of setting the face, the jack bars are also each capable of being set.as
required; independent of the spindle bar on the top of the enlarged back end
of the jacks is a bar which holds the jacks down on the axle.bar; in front of
the sinkers is a presser bar connected by arched brackets to a presser spindle
bar, above which is a carrier bar and thread carriers, and suitable connections
to the slur cocks. To the spindle bar referred to is affixed an arm carrying a
truck capable of being moved to the right or left on the cam by which it is
worked. This truck is of other different sizes in the direction of its width, so
that as it is moved to the right or left it will operate to cause a common course,
a tight course, or a slack course to be made.
For the drawing tackle there is a small bevil wheel keyed fast on the main
cam or other suitable shaft, to gear into a similar but larger wheel on another
shaft, on-which is the drawing cam, which revolves between trucks on two
levers which work on a pin at one end of each lever, the end of one lever being
secured to two chains, each of which passes over two pulleys on each end of
the frame, the chains being attached to the carrier bolt bar; the carrier bolt
bar being connected to the slur cock bar by a fork; the main cam shaft can
be moved a little endwise by a hand lever to take the small bevil wheel out of
gear from the wheel on the drawing cam shaft when a narrowing is being put
in, the several trucks being thrown on another. set of cams. We sometimes,
instead of a presser bar and presser-spindle bar, such as above described, make
use of a presser-bar-or-bars attached to the false rim bar,-but-lying within
the arch of the frame sinkers. The parts referred-to_are_adapted for making
plain looped fabric. For making a ribbed looped fabric we use the follow-
ing: A machine needle bar and machine needles standing at about right
angles to the frame needles, suitably supported by a machine spindle bar, arms,
and a slide and suitable connections for moving the same by means of cams.
on the main cam shaft.

page_text: We also sometimes make use of a sinker of a different shape when making:
a ribbed looped fabric to the one we make use of when making a plain looped,
fabric; and we also, in addition to the jack and sinker, sometimes use a lead,
sinker secured to a sinker bar attached to the false rim bar. We sometimes,
use either frame or machine needles, or both, having their stems thicker from,
the front or beard side to the opposite or back side than the thickness the con-.
trary way, by which means we obtain a much stronger needle for the guage
used. The needles lying horizontally, we sometimes support by an extra bar
at the heads, while the loop is gained.
In addition to and working in conjunction with the above, we make use of
an apparatus known in the trade as a narrowing apparatus when the machine,
is making fashioned goods. In some frames instead of forming the tail end,
of the jack into a hook to hook on the rounded edge of a bar, as above described,
we make a hole in the tail end of the jack and pass a wire through it and,
through holes in the back sley, in the usual way..
.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Anthony John Mundella and William Onion in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 16th May 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ANTHONY
JOHN MUNDELLA, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham,
Manufacturer, and WILLIAM ONION, of the same Place, Mechanic, send.
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters'
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord:
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her-
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Anthony John Mundella and William Onion, Her special licence!
that we, the said Anthony John Mundella and William Onion, our ex-
ecutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Anthony:
John Mundella and William Onion, our exécutors, administrators, and
assigns; should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use; exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LOOPED
FABRICS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Anthony John

page_text: Mundella and William Onion, our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and:
seal of one of us, or them, should particularly describe" and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Offico within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
• NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Anthony John Mundella, on behalf of
myself and the said William Onion, do hereby declare the nature of the said:
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is
to say:
The needle bar with its needles is capable of sliding horizontally, in. a
backward and forward direction, and above it is an adjustable falling bar,
which also acts as a locker bar. On the top of the falling bar lie tlie jacks,..
which have projections on the under side, the projections being just behind the
heads of the sinkers, which are rivetted to the jacks. The jacks lie in two
sleys placed behind the falling bar; between and above these sleys lies the
slur cock bar, the cocks sliding on the top of the jacks. Where the jacks and
sinkers are rivetted together we do not connect them. as heretofore by slitting
the head of the jack and placing the sinker in the slit, and rivetting it there;
but we make the upper end of the sinker somewhat longer than. will reach to
the top side of the jack, and turn it down on one side to form a slot for the
jack head, by which we can make use of a fine steel jack, and we are able to
make a frame with an inside of a much finer guage than can be made on the
old method. The back or tail end of the jack is somewhat enlarged, and
forms a hook on the under side, which hooks on the rounded top edge of a
bar, which acts as an axle or centre for the jacks to rise and fall upon; above
the jacks over the. locker bar there is a false rim bar carrying a spring bar,
the springs holding the-jacks-up-until-forced down by the slur cocks. At the.
back of the jacks and below them_is_a_spindle-bar-moved by a cam on the
main-cam or other suitable shaft; to the spindle bar are secured brackets,
which carry the jack bars and sleys, the falling bar, slur cock bar, false rim
bar, and spring bar. This spindle bar can be moved as required horizon-.
tally, for the purpose of setting the face; the jack bars are
of being set as required, independent of the spindle bar.
enlarged back end of the jacks is a bar which holds the
axle bar. In front of the sinkers is a presser bar connected by arched
brackets to a presser spindle bar, above which is a carrier bar and thread
also each capable
On the top of the
jacks down on the

page_text: .carriers, and suitable connections to the slur cocks. To the spindle bar
referred to is affixed an arm carrying a truck capable of being moved to the
right or left on the cam by which it is worked. This truck is of other
different sizes in the direction of its width, so that as it is moved to the right
or left it will operato to cause a common course, a tight course, or a slack
course to be made. .
:
For the drawing tackle there is a small bevil wheel keyed fast on the
main cam or other suitable shaft to gear into a similar but larger wheel on
another-shaft, on which is the drawing cam which revolves between trucks on
two levers which work on a pin at one end of each lever, the end of one
lever being secured to two, chains, each of which passes over two pullies on
each end of the frame, the chains being attached to the carrier bolt bar, the
carrier bolt bar being connected to the slur. cock bar by a fork, the main cam
shaft can be moved a little end wise by a hand lever to take the small bevil
wheel out of gear from the wheel on the drawing cam shaft when a narrowing
is being put in, the several trucks being thrown on another set of cams. We
sometimes, instead of a presser bar and presser spindle bar; such as above
described, make use of a presser bar, or bars attached to the false rim bar,
but lying within the arch of the frame sinkers. The parts referred to. are
adapted for making plain looped fabric. For making a ribbed looped fabric
we use, the following: A machine needle bar and machine needles standing
at about right angles to the frame needles, suitably supported by a machine
spindle bar arms and a slide, and suitable connections for moving the same by
means of cams on the main cam shaft.
. We also sometimes make use of a sinker of a different shape when making
a ribbed looped fabric to the one we make use of when making a plain
.looped fabric. And we also; in addition to the jack and sinker, sometimes
use a lead sinker secured to a sinker bar attached to the false rim bar. We
sometimes use either frame or machine needles, or both, having their stems
.thicker from the front or beard- side to the opposite or back side than the
thickness the contrary way, by which means we obtain a much stronger
needle for the guage used. The needles lying, horizontally we; sometimes
support by an extra bar at the heads while the loop is gained: In addition
to and working in conjunction with the above we make use of an apparatus
known in the trade as a narrowing apparatus when the machine is making
fashioned goods. In some frames, instead of forming the tail end.of the jack
into a hook to hook on the rounded edge of a bar as above described, we
make a hole in the tail end of the jack, and pass a wire through it and
through holes in the back sley in the usual way.

page_text: describe, aided by the accompanying Drawings, means which we have adopted
in carrying the same into effect.
DESCRIPTION: OF. THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1, Sheet 1, represents a front view of a knitting machine for the
"production of ribbed looped fabrics according to part of our improvements;
most of the horizontal bars in this view have portions broken away to shew
more fully their relative positions, and only a few of the instruments used are
shewn attached to their several bars. Figure 3, Sheet 2, represents a sectional
view of the same machine looking from one end. Figure 5, Sheet 3,
represents a sectional view of portion of Figure 3 drawn the full size. The
other Figures represent our further improvements and shew some of the parts
separately. The several cams which are placed on the horizontal cam shaft
are omitted in Figures 1 and 3, being shewn the full size on Sheet 5. The
whole of the corresponding parts in the several Figures being lettered alike,
the following description will apply to each.
A, A, represents two end standards connected together by four angle bars,
B, placed horizontally, two being in the front and two in the back. Above
the two front ones is a fifth tie bar C, upon which a needle bar C¹ slides
horizontally from back to front, or vice versa, to the needle bar are secured the
leads C, in which the frame needles are cast, being secured in the usual way
by plates and screws as shewn; the needle bar is hinged to a bracket C³,
secured to the spindle bar C, which is moved by the cam No. 5, which works
upon a truck near the end of an arm C³, screwed to the under side of the
spindle bar, the ends of which lie in bearings on the end standards; above the
needle leads is an adjustable falling bar D, which also acts as a locker bar
and is free to rise and fall as required in brackets screwed to the false rim
bar F; the depth to which the falling bar drops is regulated-by-set-screws
Land.lock-nuts-D' in the bottom of the brackets. At the back of the falling]
bar are one or more pins_and_short-links-De-hinged to a lever D³ carrying a
truck at its lower end moved by the cam No. 4, the lever working on a pin
capable of adjustment in the slot of an arm D', screwed to the tie bar C. The
falling bar D is actuated to lock up the jacks by the arm D³ hinged to one
end of a cranked lever D,. the other end of the lever carrying a truck
operated upon by the cam No. 4, the lever D working upon an axle in a
small bracket screwed to the cross bearing M³, the cam No. 4 locking the
centre of the bar D up at the same time as the ends are locked up by the
cams 9 and 11 which are alike. The jacks can also be locked up when

page_text: requisite by pressing upon the foot lever D', which is connected by a rod to
the lever Do the weight of the lever D' being borne by a short spring. On
the top of the falling bar lie the jacks E in two sleys E', which are screwed
to an arm F the back or tail ends of the jacks E are somewhat enlarged and
form a hook on the under side which hooks on the rounded top edge of a bar
E, which acts as a centre or axle for the jacks to rise and fall upon; on the
top of the tail end of the jack is a lever E³ supported by brackets held by
screws to the axle bar E2, the jacks being prevented from rising off the axle
bar by the bar E³. On the front ends of the jacks are rivetted the jack
sinkers E, the upper end of each of which is made somewhat longer than
will reach to the top of the jack, above which it is bent down so as to embrace
.both sides of the jack, a hole being punched through both jack and sinker ;
they are rivetted together as shewn, by which means we are enabled to make
a frame with an inside of a much finer guage than on the old plan of slitting
the head of the jack and rivetting the sinker in it, as by our improved method
we can make use of a fine steel jack instead of a thick iron one, the bottom
'or tail of the sinker lies between the tie bar C and the face bar Ce screwed to
the front of the tie bar, studs of the requisite thickness being interposed to
allow of the play of the sinker during its several movements. Above the
jack E is the false rim bar F, which is screwed to arms F¹ on the frame spindle
bar F, which is free to rock as required in bearings secured to the end
'standards, the bar being moved by the cam No. 3 working upon a truck at
the lower end of the arm F' attached to the back of the spindle bar, the
bearings of which can be adjusted horizontally for the purpose of setting the
5-face. The truck is capable of being moved to the right or left on the cam
No. 3 by a hand lever F, which projects in front of the frame and turns on
'an, axle in a bracket F attached to the arm F3; the truck being of three
'different thicknesses in the direction of its width according as it is. moved to
the right or left will cause a common course, a tight course, or a slack courso
to be made. In the hand lever F, at the back of the spindle M, is a pin
which secures one end of a link F' having its other end slotted, through
-which is passed a pin screwed into a wedge piece F8 held by a pin in the end
of a bracket F; attached to the back of the machine spindle bar M*, and
near the end of the bracket F is an axle which carries a lever. Ms, the front
5 end of which is bent to receive the star screw.F", and is furnished with a
spring F, and the opposite end of the lever F10 is provided with a truck moved
-by the machine sinking and knocking over cam No. 6; thus, when the hand
lever is moved to the left for making a slack course, the wedge part of the piece
F will be placed under the star screw, which will cause the machine to.be

page_text: brought down when the frame is sunk to press the slack course. To one side
of the bracket F a lever F is secured and held down by a spring, as seen in
Figures 1 and 3. At the back of the false rim bar F, and secured to it, is a
spring bar F, the springs in which hold the jacks up until forced down by the
slur cocks. To the arms F' are screwed' brackets G which support the slur
cock bar G', on which the saddles or clips G slide, being connected by a
bar G, to which the slur cocks G³ are screwed. The cocks have a horizontal
sliding motion given them by means of a lever G screwed to the bar G³, the
lever lying in the fork of a short arm G attached to the carrier bolt H, which
is free to slide to and fro horizontally in the slotted ends of a bar II' attached
to one of the clips or saddles H which slide upon the fixed bår H³, which is
'supported at each end of the frame by brackets secured to the end standards,
two of the saddles H being connected by the carrier bar H, to which the
thread carriers H' are screwed. To the slotted bar H' is screwed a spring
which steadies a small bolt He affixed to it which takes into a nick in the top
of a stud H' screwed to the front of the carrier bar H, by which means the
carrier bar has the same sliding motion given it as the bar H And in order
that the carriers may have a lead over the slur cocks, the carrier bolt His
made somewhat thinner at each end, according to the length of lead required;
the ends are also bevilled on the under side and near each end of the traverse
of the bolt H. On the bar H³ is fixed a piece Hs, against which the bevilled
ends of the bolt strike, the bolt being lifted 'to such a height as to enable it to
slide in the slot without moving the bar H' and carrier bar (if the bolt is in
the stud) with it, by which means the slur cocks are enabled to pass the thread
:carriers, the carriers then standing in advance ready for the return course.
If the bolt H is released, either the slur cocks or the carriers can be moved
when required independent. of each other.. To the under side of the fixed
bar H3 are secured brackets carrying a rod H, which is free to slide to the
right or left, or vice versâ, and to which rod are rivetted as many additional
carriers-as-there are carriers.H, the additional ones_being_for_the_purpose of
laying in a colored thread or a splicing thread when required, the rod being
moved for that purpose by the hand of the person attending the machine. A
right or left to-and-fro movement is communicated to the carrier bolt II by
means of two chains H attached to the drawing tackle, which is shewn
in plan at Figure 6, Sheet 4, and of which the following is a description:-
Keyed fast on the main cam shaft 1 is a bevil wheel I which gears into a
similar but larger wheel I' keyed on the upper end of a short vertical shaft.
turning in a bearing bracket secured to the top front tic bar B, and carrying
on its lower end the drawing cam No. 1, which revolves between two trucks I³,

page_text: one. truck being on an axle near the end of a lever, having its other end free!
to move on' an axle in a bracket screwed to the top back tie bar B; 'the other.
end of the lever is provided with a pin, upon which two. pieces of metal I³ are.
free to turn, each piece being provided with a screw and nut to regulate the.
tension of the chains H, to the lower ends of which the screws are attached.
The two levers carrying the trucks 12 are secured together, the réquisite":
distance apart, by a bráce I, capable of adjustment, which is placed on the
truck axles, by which means the chains: will be alternately pulled to the rights
or left during each revolution of the drawing cam; the chains passing over two
pullies I at each end of the frame. In front of the sinkers E, and lying:
between the two sets of carriers, is a presser bar K, connected by arched!
brackets, to the presser spindle bar, K', provided with an arm carrying an axle
pin for the upper end of a link K2 to work upon, the lower end of the link;
being hinged to a lever K, having its opposite end binged to a bracket K³,
secured to the top front tie bar, B, the lower end of the link K being.provided
with a truck moved by the cam No. 7. The bars we sometimes use for the
purpose of supporting the heads of the frame needles while the loop is gained
are: shewn in Figure 2, .Sheet 1, which is a front view, and in section.at
Figure 5, Sheet 3, where L.represents the bars supported by arms L' secured;
to an axle bar L lying in bearings L³ at each end of the frame, and supported,
near the centre by a third bearing L screwed to the top front tie bar B.. The
axle bar being free to turn in the bearings, the bars can be drawn away from
the needles for setting them or other purpose., When placed under the
needles; 'the bars are held "steady by a spring at each end screwed to the
bearings L³.
The parts above described are arranged for producing plain looped fabric. :
For. producing ribbed looped fabric we, in addition, use the following parts;
namely, machine needles cast in leads M and secured in the usual way by
plates and screws to the machine needle bar M₁ which is 'supported and
operated upon, in the following manner: To the bottom of the bar M² are:
secured three brackets M² through which screw pins are passed. provided with>
lock nuts; the end of each pin takes into a hole, in a short adjustable arm
screwed to the brackets M³ (which are shown broken off short in Figure 5) f
projecting from the front side of the machine spindle bar M* at the back of:
which is a bracket F provided with a truck at the end moved by the cam;
No. 6 which causes, the needle bar to rise and fall vertically; "the 'centre>
bracket M2 is somewhat longer than the end. ones, and at its lower end' is
provided with an axle pin which takes into a slot in a hand lever M, thet
back end of the lever working on a pin in the upper end of a lever M', which i

page_text: rocks on an axle in a short arm screwed to a cross bearing M³, fixed to the
front and back tie bars; the lower end of the rocking lever carries a truck
moved by the cam No. 2, which throws the machine needles forward while
they are pressed.
Between the facing bar C and the machine needle bar is a slide N which
lies in the forked end of an arm N¹ working upon an adjustable axle in one end
of a lever N, the other end of the lever being provided with a truck operated
upon by the cam No. 8, the lever rocking upon a pin in a bracket attached to
the cross bearing M³, the slide N rises and falls vertically for the purpose of
landing or knocking the loops of the machine course over the heads of the
machine needles.
The whole of the cams above mentioned, except the drawing cam No. 1,
are keyed fast upon the main cam shaft I°, which has a toothed wheel keyed'
on it at one end, gearing into a similar wheel driven by another but smaller
wheel on the handle shaft, on which is keyed a fly wheel and fast and loose
pullies to enable the frame to be driven by power when required.
The main cam shaft which lies in bearings on the end standards can be'
moved a little endwise by a hand lever placed in any convenient position for
the purpose of moving the bevil wheel out of gear from the bevil wheel on the
drawing cam shaft when a narrowing is being put in when making fashioned
goods, in which case the several trucks are thrown on to another set of cams.
provided for that purpose.
By these means we are enabled to produce ribbed looped fabric.
We will now describe the movements collectively of the above combination
of parts during the working of a ribbed course; suppose the parts being in
the relative positions shewn on Figure 5, the thread carriers proceed to lay
the threads across the needles, followed by the slur cocks, which depress the.
sinkers to form the loops between the needles; the frame is then sunk by the
sinking cam to hold the loops until they get under the beards of the frame.
needles, the frame rising while the presser comes down on to the beards s
of the needles to allow the previously formed-loops-to-pass-over-the-ends.of.the.
-needles,-after which the machine descends and the loops are passed under the.
beards of the machine needles, the presser again descends to press the machine.
needle beards to allow the previous loops to pass over the heads, the slide at
the same time rising to knock the loops over the ends of the needles, which 8
completes a course, the same being repeated as often as required.
Another modification of the apparatus consists in having the parts consti- .
tuting "the machine" taken away, or rendered inoperative, to make a plain or
fashioned fabric.

page_text: Another modification consists of parts similar to the last described, but
having in addition lead sinkers hinged to brackets attached to the false rim
bar F, and a pressér bar lying in slots in the sinkers as shewn at Figure 4,
Sheet 3, for making plain or fashioned goods."
Another modification consists in attaching the presser bars to brackets
attached to the false rim bar, the rest of the frame being the same, as first
described without "the machine."
Another modification consists of either of the above combinations for making
plain looped fabrics, but with the addition of a narrowing apparatus. -
Figure represents the jack sinker of the shape we use when making
ribbed fabrics, and Figure 9 represents the presser bar for the fourth modifica-
tion and a jack sinker for making plain or fashioned goods, and Figure 10
represents a lead sinker used for the same purpose.
DESCRIPTION OF THE NARROWING APPARATUS.
Figure 11, Sheet 4, represents a front view of the apparatus placed at the
right hand end of the machine; Figure 2 is a plan of the apparatus shewing
the racks or notches upon the several bars and the pawls which move the
same; Figure 13 represents the cam which imparts the requisite motion to
the several parts.
The cam A, which is keyed upon the main cam shaft, gives motion to the
apparatus at such time as it is required to commence narrowing the fabric in
the following manner:-The cam will move the truck B, the arm carrying
which is free to swing upon a pin in the arm C, and force its arm against the
truck upon the fixed arm D; the continued movement of the cam will raise
the arm B and lower the lever E attached to it, in the end of which is a stud
sliding upon the lever F which has two tabs screwed to it, to which are
screwed the rods G, H; the other end of the rod G, working upon a pin in
a small lever carried by a stud screwed to the bar upon which the tickler bars
slide; to a small lever are attached the pawls I, I, which move the left
tickler bar to the right, and the right tickler bar to the left; j.j, are springs
one to each tickler bar, which hold the bars in position when the pawls have
moved them. The other end of the rod H works upon a pin in the bar K,
which is screwed to a similar bar from the other end of the frame; one end of
this bar works upon a pin in the lever carrying the pawl K, which moves the
right hand thread carrier stop bar M, the other rod moving the pawls, &c, at
the left end; L is a pawl which keeps the stop in its place when K has
moved it.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention and the means we

page_text: adopt in carrying the same into effect, we would have it understood that we
do not confine ourselves to the precise details shown and described as these
may be varied, nor do we claim the various mechanical parts separately
considered; but what we do claim is, the adaptations or combinations of
means for the manufacture of looped fabrics substantially as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Anthony John Mundella, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
ANTHONY JOHN MUNDELLA. (L.S.)