Improvements in and relating to Mechanism for Lacing or Connecting Together Jacquard Cards or Machines therefor.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 17th May, 1889-Accepted, 22nd June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Mechanism for Lacing or Connecting
Together Jacquard Cards or Machines therefor.
We, ROBERT REID, and JOHN FISHER, both of Abbey Gardens Works, Dunferm-
line, Fifeshire, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of our invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention has reference to a new or improved construction of machine, and
special improvements connected therewith, for the lacing or connecting together by
cords or threads of damask and other Jacquard cards, and will be more simple and
efficient in action, and perform the work in a continuous, and in a superior manner
to the intermittent acting machines heretofore in use.
The nature and novelty of the Invention consist all as follows:-The machine would
consist of vertical open end frames bolted to the floor, or secured to a bed plate, and
stayed together by longitudinal bars or rails. The cards would be placed on and
carried by endless chains at each side of the machine with vertical projecting knobs
on each link for the holes in the cards, passing over square, polygonal, or round
pulleys on longitudinal spindles at the upper part of the machine and traversed trans-
versely under the vertical lacing needles, and delivered at the other end of the
machine in a secure twisted laced state. The needles and their carrying bars which
might be two, three or more in number, three being the preferable number, to lace
ordinary sized cards at the two ends and in the centre, would be mounted to slide
vertically through guide plates bolted to the back of the longitudinal stay bars, and
have mounted between hollow bars below them the shuttles and their actuating
horizontally traversing guide plate, each shuttle having a separate removable slide
above it for withdrawing the shuttle when empty all as will hereinafter be described.
The first motion longitudinal shaft or spindle is driven preferably by a belt and
overhung pulley at one end of the machine, and is mounted in bush bearing blocks at
the ends of the machine under the back end of the frame below where the laced cards
are delivered, and transmits motion through spur gearing to a longitudinal second
motion spindle mounted parallel to it which has two cams mounted on it near the
opposite end to the gearing. The inner cam has three teeth or fingers formed on
its outer surface, two of equal size, and the other larger than these, and actuates a
roller or ferrule mounted on a stud secured to a vertical rocking lever or bar
fulcrumed on a rod at the lower back part of the machine. To the upper end of
this vertical rocking lever is secured a horizontal transverse traversing bar guided
through slots in overhung rods projecting down from the transverse stay bars. A
pushing pawl is mounted on this horizontal traversing bar near its centre, and
actuates a ratchet wheel mounted on a longitudinal spindle at the delivery end of
the machine also below the card carriers. While a pulling pawl would be mounted
at the front end of this horizontal transverse traversing bar and actuate a corre-
sponding ratchet wheel mounted on the front longitudinal spindle on which the
endless chain card pulleys are mounted. Corresponding shaped but smaller ratchet
wheels would be mounted on the same spindles as the larger ratchet wheels, and the
outer cam mounted close to and on the same longitudinal spindle as the inner cam,
and would have three teeth or toes formed on it. This can would actuate a roller
or ferrule mounted on the stud of a bell-crank lever fulcrumed on a bracket behind,
and having a V-toothed pawl screwed on its upper end; while a corresponding bell-
crank lever with pawl would be connected to the back end of the former and fulcrumed
on a bracket in front, the pawls of both of these levers acting on the teeth of the
smaller ratchet wheels, when the pawls of the larger ratchet wheels are slipping over
their teeth, and so hold them in position. Each of these ratchet wheels would be

page_text: formed or spaced in series with teeth two of equal size, and one of unequal size, for
the purpose of regulating the traverse of the cards while passing under the lacing
needles as will hereinafter be described.
A vertical angled bar would have its lower slotted end mounted on the same stud
of the before mentioned rocking lever as secured the horizontal sliding plate to it.
The upper end of this angled bar would he mounted by an eye on a short longitudinal
spindle carried in overhung eye brackets, and the other end of this spindle would
have a corresponding angled bar mounted on it, said bar having a rod mounted on
its lower end which abuts against a crosshead. The crosshead would have two
horizontal rods screwed to eyes and working transversely at right angles in front of
its ends, said rods being passed through bushed eyes in overhung brackets secured to
the machine frame, and are connected at their front ends to a horizontal transverse
traversing frame reciprocated above the cards, the crosshead and frame being returned
to their back position by means of a spring or spring lever. This frame carries a set
of traversing guide horizontal transverse plates on each side of a stationary central
rail plate below each set of needles and in which the needle hole is formed. A
vertical spring rod with a forked shoe plate on its lower end is mounted on the
horizontal transverse traversing crosshead frame behind each set of needles to rest on
the card, and receives a horizontal transverse traversing motion from said frame.
While it receives a raising and lowering motion by having the upper end of each
spring rod connected to the front end of an arın keyed on a short longitudinal
spindle behind mounted in eyes in the upper end of the traversing crosshead frame,
and this spindle receives its vibratory or oscillating motion from a back crank arm
attached to a vertical pendent connecting rod fulcrumed at its lower end through
angled rods to a stud and receiving a rocking or vibratory motion by a roller from a
wiper or toe cam on the first motion shaft of the machine. By these motions the
slotted shoe plate on lower end of each spring rod comes forward round past each side
of its needle and presses down the card being laced, and carries it back on the lower
traversing slide and endless chain until it is passed the needles. The vertical acting
needles and their traversing bars to which they would be secured by studs or pins,
are raised and lowered or reciprocated vertically by a movement from the first
motion shaft. This is effected by mounting an irregular shaped grooved faced disc cam
on said shaft, in which works a roller mounted on a stud near the centre of a hori-
zontal lever fulcrumed to the back end of the machine. This lever bas a vertical
connecting rod attached to its back end, said connecting rod being attached at its
upper end to a projecting arm on a short longitudinal spindle carried in eye brackets
on the top of the machine frame. This longitudinal spindle carries two levers pro-
jecting forward having pendent links at their front ends, said pendent links being
jointed at their lower ends by crossheads and screw adjustable bolts to plates carried
on longitudinal rods securing the three needle carrying bars together. The motion
thus communicated from the grooved cam on the first-motion shaft is transmitted
through the said series of rods and levers to raise and lower the needle bars and
needles. The thread or cord is fed to the needles as follows:- A bobbin for each
needle would be mounted on the upper back end of the machine, and the thread
would be led through an eyeplate in front and down round a tension guide pulley
having a friction cloth round its groove and then up and over a pulley on the end of a
tension regulating spring lever which passes through a slot in each needle bar and
moves with it, and from thence each cord passes vertically down through guide eyes
to the eye of each needle.
A vertical rotating spindle is carried through overhung eye brackets at the back
end of the machine and through bevel gearing gives motion as follows:-A bevel
wheel on the first motion shaft gears into and gives motion to a corresponding wheel
on the lower end of this vertical spindle. A horizontal transverse stud spindle mounted
in a bracket at the end of machine has a bevel wheel mounted on it which receives
motion from a bevel wheel on the said vertical spindle, and a crank is mounted on
the other end of stud spindle, having a connecting rod attached to it, which is jointed
to and reciprocates the horizontal slide carrying the set of shuttles at the back of the

page_text: needles under the card being sewed. Another bevel wheel is mounted near the upper
end of vertical spindle, and gears into a short stud transverse spindle mounted in eye
overhung brackets, and this stud spindle has a cam or uneven surface mounted on its
other end. A vertical link has its one end mounted on a stud bracket above this
spindle and has a roller or ferrule attached at its centre on which the aforesaid cam
acts and rocks. A connecting rod is attached to the lower end of this vertical link,
and has its other end attached to a horizontal plate secured to traverse horizontally in
guides at the back of the needle bars, a spring attached to the end frame of machine
bringing this sliding rod back after it has been brought forward by the action of the
connecting rod. A vertical arm would be attached to this horizontal longitudinal
traversing rod, at the side of each needle, and each vertical arm would have a flat
broad guard plate with forked central slot secured at its lower end, which would by
the action of the aforesaid gearing come round the needle when the latter came down
to lace the cards, and by this means the cord would be prevented from touching or
injuring the cards. A small transverse spindle is mounted in overhung eye brackets
behind the needles and has a crank handle shaped guard mounted on it behind each
needle, and this spindle is oscillated by a crank receiving a vibratory motion from an
angled slot in the horizontal plate to which the ratchet wheel pawls are attached.
These guards press against the needle when it is being reciprocated upwards and
Instead of
prevents it from bending, while the laced cards are being carried forward.
the endless traversing chains carrying the cards being actuated by and receiving their
motion from unequal tooth spaced ratchet wheels mounted on the back and front upper
transverse spindles, as described, equally spaced teeth might be used on the ratchet
wheels, and the two spindles be connected through a coupling spindle and bevel
gear, said spindle having a ratchet wheel mounted on it which would receive motion
from a pawl or pawls actuated by cams from the second motion shaft on which the
other cams were mounted, and from this gearing give the required intermittent
variable motion to bring the tying holes of the cards exactly under the needles, and
also the free space or interval between the holes, all while the needles are lacing the
cards together. Instead of the cards after being punched being placed on the endless
feeding chain by hand as described, they might be taken in the state got from the mill
to a receiver which would deliver them singly and automatically to a machine which
would punch their nib and lace holes on their way to the new card lacing machine; or
endless chains could be carried from the card punching machine, and feed the cards
forward direct from same, or have separate chains or traversing gear from the card
punching machines to feed the cards along to these endless carrying chains. A bell
or gong could be sounded to let the attendant know that a certain number of cards
has been laced, and that the thread on the shuttles has been used up. This could be
effected under one arrangement by placing a worm or screw wheel on the second
motion cam shaft, which would through speed reducing gearing sound the bell or
gong when the number of revolutions had been made corresponding to the number of
cards laced.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Mechanism for Lacing or Connecting
Together Jacquard Cards or Machines therefor.
We ROBERT REID, and JOHN FISHER, both of Abbey Gardens Works, Dunfermline,
Fifeshire, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement in writing reference being had to the accompanying
Two Sheets of Drawings and to the reference figures marked thereon, that is to
say :-
This Invention has reference to a new or improved construction of machine, and

page_text: special improvements connected therewith, for the lacing or connecting together by
cords or threads of damask and other Jacquard cards, and will be more simple and
efficient in action, and give the required intermittent motions to lace the cards, and
perform the work in a continuous, and in a superior manner to the intermittent acting
machines heretofore in use.
And in order that our said invention, and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, we have hereunto
appended Two explanatory Sheets of Drawings in which the same reference letters
and figures are used to indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown.
Figure 1 on Sheet 1, is a front elevation, and Figure 2 a corresponding side elevation
on the left hand side showing the driving gearing on the first motion shaft 10, and
Figure 3 is a plan view corresponding to Figure 1, all of our new or improved con-
struction of machine, or arrangement and combination of mechanism for the lacing
or connecting together of Jacquard cards A in a continuous manner. Figure 4 on
Sheet 2 is a back elevation of the machine looking at the opposite end to Figure 1,
while Figure 5 is a side elevation looking at the opposite side to Figure 2.
Figures 6, 7, and 8, show a detailed front and side elevation and plan respectively,
of the needles 6 and shuttles 6 and feeding in mechanism of the cards partly in
section and with many of the other parts removed to show the action of these parts
more clearly, and the attachment of the cards A, by the cords.
Referring to these Drawings, the nature and novelty of the invention consist all
as follows:-The machine consists of vertical open end frames 1, 1', strongly bolted
together by the longitudinal or transverse stay bars or rails 2, and secured to the floor
by broad sole flanges, or it might be to a bed plate at z. The cards A, a few of which
are shown laced together in side and edge view in Figures 9 and 10, are previously
punched with their pattern holes and the holes A¹ for attaching or lacing them by,
and those A for feeding them on to their Jacquard barrels. These cards A are
placed or fed by hand onto and carried by endless chains 3 at each side of the
machine, with vertical projecting knobs or pins 3' on each link 3 for the holes A" in
the cards A, passing over square chain wheels or pulleys 4 as shown, or it might be
polygonal, or round pulleys mounted on the longitudinal spindles 5, 5', carried on
brackets 511 at the front and back near the middle of the frames 1 of the machine, the
cards A being traversed transversely under the vertical lacing needles 6 and over the
shuttle race 7, and delivered at the back end of the machine in a secure twisted laced
state, guard plates 8, 81, being riveted in front and at the back, for supporting the
cards and preventing them from falling into the mechanism. The needles 6 and their
carrying reciprocating bars 6' which might be two, three or more in number, three
being the preferable number and shown in these Drawings, to lace ordinary sized
cards A, at the two ends and in the centre, through their punched lacing holes A¹, A¹,
are mounted to slide vertically through guide plates 9 bolted to the back of the front
longitudinal stay bars 2, and have mounted between hollow guide frames 7 below
them the shuttles 6' and their actuating horizontally traversing guide carrying plate 71
each shuttle, having a separate removable slide cover above it in the guide
frame 7 for withdrawing the shuttle b¹ when empty for refilling it with a new spool of
the under thread b.
The first motion longitudinal shaft or spindle 10 is driven preferably by a belt and
overhung pulley at 11 with hand or flywheel 11' at one end of the machine and is
mounted in bush bearing blocks 10' at the ends of the machine under the back end of
the frame 1 below where the laced cards A are delivered, and a movable friction disc
clutch 12, 12, is mounted on the shaft 10 and pulley 11, for shifting the friction
clutch to put the belt pulley 11, into or out of gear by the attendant simply operating
with his foot the treadle 13 connected to the clutch through the levers and spindle 14
carried on the brackets 15 bolted to the side frame 1, of the machine. The first
motion shaft 10 transmits motion through spur gearing 16 to a longitudinal second,
motion spindle 17 mounted in brackets 171, parallel to it, which has two cams 18, 19,
mounted on it near the opposite end to the gearing 16. The inner cam 18 has three
projecting teeth or fingers 18¹ formed on its outer surface, two of equal size, and the

page_text: other larger than these, and actuates an antifriction roller 20 mounted on a stud
secured to a vertical rocking lever or bar 21 fulcrumed on a rod or stud 22 at the
lower back part of the machine and fitted with the tension spring 23. To the upper
end of this vertical rocking lever 21 is secured by a slot and pin at 21', a horizontal
transverse bar 24 guided through slots in overhung brackets 25 projecting down from
the stay bars 2. A pushing pawl 261 is mounted on this horizontal traversing
bar 24, near its centre, and actuates a ratchet wheel 27' mounted on the longitudinal
spindle 5 at the delivery end of the machine. While a pulling pawl 26 is mounted
at the front end of this horizontal transverse traversing bar 24 and actuates a
corresponding ratchet wheel 27 mounted on the front longitudinal spindle >> on which
the endless chain card wheels or pulleys 4 are mounted. Corresponding shaped but
smaller ratchet wheels 29, 29' with catch angled recesses are mounted on the same boss and
spindle as the larger ratchet wheels 27, 27, and the outer cam 19 is mounted close to
and on the same longitudinal spindle 17 as the inner cam 18, and has three projecting
segments and three hollows between these formed on it, as seen particularly in
Figure 5. This cam 19 actuates a roller 30 mounted on the stud of a bell-crank
lever 31 fulcrumed on a bracket at 32' behind, and having a V-toothed pawl 331
screwed on its vertical arm, while a corresponding bell-crank lever 31 with pawl 33 is
connected at 3111 to the horizontal arm of the bell crank. 311 and fulcrumed on
bracket at 32 in front, the cam 19 thus actuating the pawls 33, 33¹ of both of these
levers to take into the notches or teeth of the ratchet wheels 29, 291, when the
pawls 26, 26, of the larger ratchet wheels 27, 271, are slipping backwards over their
teeth, and so hold them in position, the recesses 19' in the cam 19 taking both
pawls 33, 331, out of action when the ratchet pawls 26, 261, are turning their ratchet
wheels 27, 27¹ and carrying chains 3, 31, with the cards A on them. Each of the
ratchet wheels 27, 271 and 29, 291, is formed or spaced in series with teeth, one long
projection and division and two short projections and divisions for the purpose of
regulating the traverse of the cards while passing under the lacing needles as will
hereinafter be described, the long division being for taking in the distance between
the lacing holes A¹¹ of the cards A, and the short divisions the distances between the
edges of the cards and these holes, a pause and action of the needles being made
between the edges of the cards to give a lacing action there of the cords as well as
through the holes A', as seen particularly in Figures 9 and 10.
A vertical angled lever 34 has its lower slotted end mounted on the same stud 21¹
of the before mentioned rocking lever 21 as secured the horizontal sliding bar 24 to
it. The upper end of this angled lever 34 is mounted by an eye on a short
longitudinal spindle 35 carried in overhung eye brackets 36, and the other end of
this spindle 5 has a corresponding angled lever 37 mounted on it, said lever having
a rod 38 mounted on its lower end which is connected by a gab to the crosshead 39.
The crosshead 39 has two horizontal rods 40 screwed to eyes and working transversely
at right angles in front of the crosshead 39, said rods 40 being passed through bushed
eyes in overhung brackets at 41 secured to a bar 2 of the machine frame, and are
connected at their front ends to a horizontal transverse traversing frame 42, 42',
reciprocated above and in the direction of the cards, the crosshead 39 and frame 42
being returned to their back position by means of the spring 34' attached to the
lever 34. This frame 42 has secured to it at 43 a set of traversing guide horizontal
transverse plates 44 on each side of a stationary central rail plate 45 below each set
of needles and in which the needle hole is formed both below the cards A on the
one side of their carrying cbains 3 as seen particularly in Figures 6 to 8. A vertical
spring rod 46 with a forked shoe plate 47 on its lower end is mounted in arms 42¹
on the horizontal transverse traversing crosshead frame 42 behind each set of needles
to rest over the cards A and receives a horizontal transverse traversing motion from
said frame along with the slide plates 44. While these spring rods and pressing
feet 46, 47, receive a raising and lowering motion by having the upper end of each
spring rod 46 connected to the front end of a lever arm 48 keyed on a short longi-
tudinal spindle 49 behind, mounted in eye brackets 50 in the upper end of the
traversing cross head frame 42, and this spindle 49 receives its vibratory or oscillating

page_text: motion from a back lever arm 51 attached to the upper end of a vertical pendent
connecting rod 52, connected at its lower end by a bell crank lever 53, carried on a
stud and bracket at 54 to the side frame 1, and receiving a rocking or vibratory
motion by a roller 55 from a wiper or toe cam 56 on the first motion shaft 10 of the
machine. By these motions the slotted shoe plate or pressing foot 47 on the lower
end of each spring rod 46 comes forward round past each side of its needle and
presses down the card A being laced, and grips it over the traversing plates 44, and
carries the cards forward as they are laced on the lower traversing slides 44 and
endless chains 3 until they are past the needles. The vertical acting needles 6
and their traversing bars 61 to which they are secured by studs or pins, are raised and
lowered or reciprocated vertically by a movement from the first motion shaft 10.
This is effected by mounting an irregular shaped grooved faced disc can 57 on the
extreme right band end of said shaft 10, in which works an antifriction roller 58
mounted on a stud near the centre of a horizontal lever 59 fulcruined at 60 on a
bracket near the centre of the machine. This lever 59 has a vertical connecting
rod 61 attached to its back end, said connecting rod being attached at its upper end to
a backward projecting arm 62 on a longitudinal spindle 63 carried in high brackets 64
at the top of the machine frame 1 and 2. This longitudinal spindle 63 carries two
levers 65 projecting forward, having pendent links 66 at their front upper ends, said
pendent links being jointed at their lower ends by brackets and screw adjustable bolts
at 67 to one of the cross plates 68 securing the three needle carrying bars 6¹ together
to actuate these. The motion thus communicated from the grooved cam 57 on the
first motion shaft 10 is transmitted through the said series of rods and levers to raise
and lower the needle bars and needles 6¹6. The upper thread or cord a is fed to the
needles from the bobbins a¹ as follows:-A bobbin a¹ for each needle is mounted on
stud brackets at a" at the upper back end of the machine, and the thread a is led
through an eye plate a² in front and down round a tension screw guide pulley a³
having a friction cloth round its groove, and then up and over a pulley on the end of
a tension regulating spring lever a fulcrumed in stud brackets at a in the fixed
frame and passing through a slot in the upper end of each needle bar 61, and
so moves with it, to give off the loop of thread a as the needle goes down, and from
thence each cord a passes vertically down through guide eyes at a to the eye of each
needle 6.
As seen particularly in Figure 4, a vertical rotating spindle 69 is carried through
overhung eye brackets 70 at the back end of the machine and through bevel
gearing receives and gives motion as follows:-A bevel wheel 71 on the first
motion shaft 10 gears into and gives motion to a corresponding wheel 72 on the
lower end of this vertical spindle 69. A horizontal transverse stud spindle 73 mounted
in a bracket 74 at the end of machine has a bevel wheel 75 mounted on it which
receives motion from a bevel wheel 76 on the said vertical spindle 69, and a crank
arm 77, is mounted on the other end of the stud spindle 73 having a connecting rod 78
attached to it, which is jointed by a stud at its other end to and reciprocates the
horizontal slide 7' carrying the set of shuttles 61 of the under cord b in the shuttle
race 7 and under the cards A, being laced. Another bevel wheel 79 is mounted near
the upper end of the vertical spindle 69, and gears into a corresponding bevel pinion 80,
on a short stud transverse spindle 81, mounted in eye overhung brackets 82, and
this stud spindle 81 has a cam 83 mounted on its other end. A vertical link 84
has its upper end mounted on a stud bracket 85 on the centre frame 21 above this
spindle 81 and has a roller 86 attached at its centre on which the aforesaid cam 83
acts and rocks. A horizontal connecting rod 87 has its one end attached to the
lower end of this vertical link 84, and has its other end attached to a horizontal
plate or frame 88 secured to traverse horizontally in guides 89 at the back of the
guides 9, of the needle bars 6¹, a spring 90 attached to this bar 88 and the end
frame of machine bringing this sliding rod 88 and lever 86 back against the cam,
after each forward action. A vertical arm 91 is attached to this horizontal longitudinal'
traversing frame 88, at the side of each needle 6, and each vertical arm 91 has a flat
broad catch guard plate 92 with forked central slot secured at its lower end, which

page_text: would. by the action of the aforesaid cam 83 lever 84 and frame 88, come under the
cords on each side of the needle 6 when the latter came down to lace the cards A, and
by this means the cord a would be prevented from injuring or cutting the cards
while they were passing forward and being tightened when getting laced by the
needles and shuttles. A small transverse spindle 94, is mounted in overhung eye
brackets 93 behind the needles 6 and has a crank handle shaped guard 95 mounted on
it behind each needle 6, and this spindle 93 is oscillated by a crank 96 with a pin at
its extreme end receiving a vibratory motion from a horizontal and angled slot 97 in
the horizontal plate 24 to which the ratchet wheel pawls 26, 261, are attached. These
guards 95 press against the needles 6 when they are being reciprocated upwards and
prevent them from bending by the strain of the threads a, b while the laced cards are
being carried forward to the back end of the machine by the upper loops of the chains 3,
the lower loops being tightened by guide pulleys 5. An additional set of ratchet
wheels 27 and 2911, and chain wheels 4', are mounted on the spindles 5, 51, to be
used when cards of a smaller size are being laced or connected together by the cord a
in the machine. This is effected by shifting the ratchet wheels 27, 291, and chain
wheels 4' along the spindles 5, 51, and fixing them in the desired positions by pinching
screws passed through their bosses, into holes in the spindles 5, 51. In this case an
endless chain of shorter links 3, 31, has to be mounted over the chain wheels 4" to carry
the cards, A to be laced and adjusted to tightness by the aforementioned guide
pulleys 311. A bell or gong 98 would be sounded to let the attendant know that a
certain number of cards has been laced, and that the thread b on the shuttles has
been used up. This is effected under one arrangement by placing a worm 99 on the
top of the vertical spindle 69, which receives its motion through bevel gearing from the
first motion cam shaft 10, and this would through the other screws and screw wheels 100,
or other speed reducing gearing, sound the bell or gong 98 by the rotating
lever 101 and spring striker 102 when the number of revolutions had been made corre-
But other speed
sponding to the number of cards laced or thread on the bobbins.
reducing gearing and indicating mechanism may be used. Instead of the endless
traversing chains 3, 31, carrying the cards A being actuated by and receiving
their motion from unequal tooth spaced ratchet wheels 27 to 271, mounted on the
back and front upper transverse spindles 51, 5, as described, equally spaced teeth
might be used on the ratchet wheels 27 and 27', and the two spindles 5, 5', be
connected through a coupling spindle and bevel gear, said spindle having a ratchet
wheel mounted on it which would receive motion from a pawl or pawls actuated
by cams from the second motion shaft 17, on which the other cams 18 and 19, are
mounted, and from this gearing give the required intermittent variable motion to
bring the tying holes A" of the cards A exactly under the needles 6, and also the
free space or interval between the holes A" all while the needles 6 are lacing the
cards A, after being punched being placed on the endless feeding chain 3, 31, by hand
as described, they might be taken in the state got from the mill to a receiver
which would deliver then singly and automatically to a machine which, would
punch their nib and lace holes A1, A¹ on their way to the new card lacing machine;
or endless chains could be carried from the card punching machine and feed the
cards A forward direct from same, or have separate chains or traversing gear from
the card punching machines to feed the cards along to these endless carrying
chains.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is: :-
First. The construction of a machine, or arrangement and combination of mechanism,
for the lacing or connecting together of Jacquard cards, operated in a continuous
sequential manner to give the required intermittent motions to lace the cards by the
needle and shuttle threads, substantially as herein described, in reference to and shown.
in the accompanying Drawings.

page_text: Second. In a machine for the lacing or connecting together of Jacquard cards the
traversing of the cards on endless chains formed with links having pin teeth or
projecting knobs on which the cards are carried, said chains being operated by pulleys
and gearing in a continuous sequential intermittent manner, substantially as herein
described in reference to and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Third. In a machine for the lacing or connecting together of Jacquard cards, the
reciprocating of a horizontal transverse bar or frame by a cam and roller from the
second motion shaft of the machine, said bar carrying, pushing, and pulling pawls
which actuate ratchet wheels on the spindles which drive the pulleys and endless
chains carrying the cards in a continuous sequential intermittent manner, substantially
as and in the manner herein described in reference to and shown in the accompanying
Drawings.
Fourth. In a machine for the lacing or connecting together of Jacquard cards, the
arrangement and combination of bellcrank levers and pawls, actuated by a cam and
roller from the second motion shaft of the machine, said pawls acting on the teeth of
ratchet wheels mounted on the spindles which drive the pulleys and endless chains
carrying the cards, to prevent them turning or slipping back while the pawls of
the other and larger ratchet wheels are traversing backwards over their teeth,
substantially as and in the manner herein described, in reference to and shown in the
accompanying Drawings.
Fifth. In a machine for the lacing or connecting together of Jacquard cards, the
use of kneed forked shoe or equivalent shaped plates or pressing feet mounted on the
lower ends of spring rods carried on a horizontal reciprocating frame, said feet coming
forward round and past each side of the needle to press down the card being laced
and carry the card back on the lower traversing slide with endless chains, until it is
past the needles, substantially as and operated in the manner herein described, in
reference to and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Sixth. In a machine for the lacing or connecting together of Jacquard cards, the
mounting of a horizontal reciprocating crosshead and frame, carrying the rods and
plates which press down the cards while being laced, substantially as and operated in
the manner herein described, in reference to and shown in the accompanying
Drawings.
Seventh. In a machine for the lacing or connecting together of Jacquard cards,
the reciprocating or raising and lowering of the frame of needles and needle bars
vertically by a rocking shaft, levers and rods from a cam on the first motion shaft,
substantially as and in the manner herein described, in reference to and shown in the
accompanying Drawings.
Eighth. In a machine for the lacing or connecting together of Jacquard cards, the
arrangement and combination of bobbins, pulleys, tension spring levers and fittings
for leading the thread or cord under tension to the needles, substantially as
and in the manner herein described, in reference to and shown in the accompanying
Drawings.
Ninth. In a machine for the lacing or connecting together of Jacquard cards, the
reciprocating of the horizontal slide carrying the shuttles under the needles and cards
being laced, from the first motion shaft through intermediate bevel gearing and
spindles simultaneously with the downward motion of the needle bars, and back while
the needles are rising, substantially as and in the manner herein described in reference
to and shown in accompanying Drawings.
Tenth. In a machine for the lacing or connecting together of Jacquard cards, the
mounting of a horizontal longitudinal traversing rod carrying a vertical arm at the
side of each needle, each of said arms having a flat guard plate which comes round
the needle when the cards are being laced and prevents the cords from cutting or
injuring them while being fed forward, substantially as and operated in the manner
herein described, in reference to and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Eleventh. In a machine for the lacing or connecting together of Jacquard cards,
the mounting of guards to press against the needles while being reciprocated upwards

page_text: to prevent them from bending while the laced cards are being carried forward, substan-
tially as and operated in the manner herein described in reference to and shown in the
accompanying Drawings.
Twelfth. In a machine for the lacing or connecting together of Jacquard cards,
the mounting of a bell or gong, automatically sounded to let the attendant know
that a certain number of cards had been laced just before the thread in the shuttles
for sewing that number had been used up, substantially as and in the manner herein
described in reference to and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.