IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES AND MITS BY WARP MACHINERY
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Haimes, of Melbourne, near Derby, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES AND MITS BY
WARP MACHINERY."
Sealed the 1st September 1854, and dated the 4th July 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Haimes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 4th
July 1854.
I, THOMAS HAIMES, of Melbourne, near Derby, do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES
AND MITS BY WARP MACHINERY" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of the thumbs of gloves
and mits simultaneously with the other parts, when making such articles in
machinery working by looping warp threads or yarns into gloves or mits.
Heretofore gloves and mits have been manufactured by warp machinery
in such manner that only the four fingers have been simultaneously made by
the looping together of warp threads or yarns, such machinery being combined
and working according to an Invention described in the Specification of a
Patent granted to me and others on the Tenth day of May, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-one. And the present Invention consists of causing
the thumbs of gloves and mits to be produced simultaneously with the other
parts of such articles. The mode I adopt as being the best for my purpose

page_text: is to commence with making the fingers, and instead of making only four
fingers five are produced. The guides are worked simultaneously till the proper
length of fabric for the four fingers is made. The making of the fabric for the
hand then goes on at the same time with the making of the thumb till the
thumb is complete, when the working of the guides is continued until sufficient
length for the hand and welt is produced; or the guide bars or independent
guides used may be worked in such manner that the length of fabric having
been produced for making the upper parts of several gloves or mits, the guide
bars or independent guides may be caused to commence to make the thumbs
and the other parts of the fabric; and when a proper length of fabric has been
produced, the guides for making the fingers of the gloves or mits come into
action to make the fingers, as heretofore. And in place of using the plates
or instruments 1, described in the said former Specification, I employ similar
plates, bent at the ends, so as to overlap each other, leaving the stems of the
plates parallel, as formerly, but without the spaces between them being closed
at the outer ends, the bending and overlapping of the ends being in place of
the strip of metal formerly passed through openings in such plates.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Haimes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th
January 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
HAIMES, of Melbourne, near Derby, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Haimes, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Haimes, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Haimes, my executors, 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 THE MANUFAC-
TURE OF GLOVES AND MITS BY WARP MACHINERY," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Thomas Haimes, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the

page_text: said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Haimes, 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):-
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of the thumbs of gloves
and mits simultaneously with the other parts, when making such articles in
machinery working by looping warp threads or yarns into gloves or mits.
Heretofore gloves and mits have been manufactured by warp machinery in
such manner that only the four fingers have been simultaneously made by the
looping together of warp threads or yarns, such machinery being combine:
and working according to an Invention described in the Specification of a
Patent granted to me and others on the Tenth day of May, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-one. And the present Invention consists of causing
the thumbs of gloves and mits to be produced simultaneously with the other
parts of such articles. The mode I adopt as being the best for my purpose
is to commence with making the fingers, and instead of making only four
fingers five are produced; the guides are worked simultaneously till the
proper length of fabric for the four fingers is made; the making of the fabric
for the hand then goes on at the same time with the making of the thumb till
the thumb is complete, when the working of the guides is continued until
sufficient length for the hand and welt is produced; or the guide bars or
independent guides used may be worked in such manner that the length of
fabric having been produced for making the upper parts of several gloves or
mits, the guide bars or independent guides may be caused to commence to
make the thumbs and the other parts of the fabric, and when a proper length
of fabric has been produced, the guides for making the fingers of the gloves
or mits come into action to make the fingers, as heretofore. And in place of
using the plates or instruments 1, described in the said former Specification, I
employ similar plates, bent at the ends, so as to overlap each other, leaving the
stems of the plates parallel, as formerly, but without the spaces between them
being closed at the outer ends, the bending and overlapping of the ends being
in place of the strip of metal formerly passed through openings in such
plates.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to describe
the manner of performing the same

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
The Drawings show so much of a warp machine suitably arranged for the
manufacture of gloves and mits as will enable me to describe my present
improvements. The nature of each of the views shown by the Drawings
being written thereon, it will not be necessary to repeat the same here; and as
the general arrangement of the machine is similar to that described in the
Specification of the Patent before referred to, it will not be necessary to enter
into a minute description of the working thereof, only so far as regards my
present improvements. In order to render these improvements perfectly clear
to a workman, it will be desirable first to describe an arrangement of parts
whereby the four fingers of gloves and of mits have been heretofore made
without seams, to which no claim is now made as forming any part of my
present improvements; and I would remark, that gloves and inits, when each
with four fingers, together with the other parts made in a warp machine, by
the looping together of warp threads by machinery working according to the
Invention described under the said former Letters Patent, have, after being
taken from the machine, had the thumbs introduced by hand, slits or openings
being left in the fabric of the glooves and mits to receive the thumbs. Figure
1 shows a section of the working parts of a warp machine, having guide bars
suitably arranged to work with the two needle bars a, b, to produce gloves or
mits with four fingers to each and a slit for the thumbs. In this arrangement,
ench main guide bar A, A', (together with its guides on the independent guide
bars 1, 3, 7, 2, 4, and 8,) carries half as many guides as there are needles in
the needle bar a, with which they work to produce the fabric of one side of a
glove or mit. The independent guide bars 1, 3, 7, and 2, 4, 8, carry guides
which fill up spaces left in the main guides A. A', so that when desired the
bars A, A¹, work as a single guide bar, having as many guides as there are
needles on the bar a. The main guide bars B, B', together with the guides
on the independent guide bars 5, 9, 6, and 10, work in like manner with the
needle bars b, to produce the fabric of the other side of a glove or mit; and by
reference to the Figure 2 (which shows a diagram of a double glove fabric
made with four fingers, and having an opening left for inserting the thumb),
the order in which the independent guide bars work with the needle bars a
and b, to connect the two fabrics together, will be readily traced; for it will be
observed that the numbers on the diagram, Figure 2, correspond with the
numbers on the independent guide bars, and that where the parts of the glove
are connected or seamed together, the guides on the independent guide bars
opposite those parts work (when connecting the two fabrics) alternately or at

page_text: intervals with the needles on the needle bars «, b; thus, for instance, the
guides on the independent guide bars 3 and 5 work alternately or at intervals
with opposite needles on the bars a and b to connect the two parts of the
glove fabric at the left-hand side, whilst the guides on the independent guide
bars 4 and 6 work alternately or at intervals with opposite needles on the bars
a and b, to connect the two parts of the glove fabric together at the right-hand
side, and in like manner the guides carried by the other independent guide
bars work alternately with opposite needles on the bars a and b, when con-
necting the two parts of a finger together; at other times such independent
guides (except 3, 5, and 4, 6,) work together with those on the main bars
A, A, B, B', to produce the fabric for the two sides of the hand of a glove,
and so as for the time being to make up a completo set of guides for each
side, and thus they produce two fabrics unconnected except at the two outer
edges. The needle bars, the guide bars, and the presser bars receive motion
from cams, as described in the Specification of the former Patent before
referred to, and the endway movement of the main and independent guide.
bars are controlled by jacquard or other apparatus, as is well understood in
this class of machinery. c, d, are point bars, for the purpose of holding down
the loops on the stems of the needles at the time either of the needle bars
rise to receive a fresh set of loops. A workman acquainted with this class of
machinery, aided by the foregoing description and diagram, will readily under-
stand (aided by the diagram Figure 3, and the following description,) how
to manufacture gloves and mits having thumbs made simultaneously with
the other parts of a glove or mit fabric, according to the present Invention.
Figure 3 shows a diagram of a glove fabric, having four fingers and a thumb,
which is made simultaneously with the other parts. The seams or connected
parts in this diagram are marked with numbers, which correspond with the
numbers marked on the independent guide bars in Figure 4; and Figure 4
shows a section of the principal working parts of a warp machine, suitably
arranged for carrying out my present improvements. The other Figures of
the Drawings show separate views of the instruments and of the cams for giving
motion to the several parts. By reference to Figure 4 and diagram Figure 3,
it will be seen that some of the independent guide bars are so arranged as to
continue the seaming or connection of the two fabrics for a greater length
between the thumb and the first finger, than between the third finger and the
little finger, and that the seaming or connecting between those two parts are
continued for a greater length than between the other fingers. A workman,
from what has been above said, will readily see the difference between this
last arrangement and mode of working from that previously described, with

page_text: reference to Figures 1 and 2, for making gloves or mits with only four fingers.
The machinery in all other respects is similar, and worked in like manner to
that previously described under the former Patent. Figure 5 shows a lead of
instruments 7, on an enlarged scale, through between which the needles move
up and down, and over which the work passes. These instruments are used
in place of the plates or instruments 1, described in the Specification of the
former Patent before referred to; and it will be seen, on examining the present
Drawing, that each plate is bent at the end, so as to overlap its neighboring
plate, and thus may the two sets of instruments 1, and consequently the
needles, be brought much nearer together, and finer guages employed than
heretofore.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is, the
manufacture of glove and mit fabrics, the thumbs of which are made simul-
taneously with other parts in warp machines working with two needle bars;
and I also claim the construction of the instrument 1 herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Haimes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtyeth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
ALFRED D. DOLMAN,
Melbourne,
Derbyshire.
THOMAS HAIMES. (L.S.)