IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF.. KNIT FABRICS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Slack Stallard, of York Street, Welford,.
Leicester, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF..
KNIT FABRICS."
Sealed the 7th April 1854, and dated the 26th January 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Slack Stallard
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th January 1854.
I, SAMUEL SLACK STALLARD, of York Street, Welford, Leicester, do hereby'
declare the nature of my said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OP KNIT FABRICS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to manufacture by machinery knit fabrics
with a peculiar piled surface, and it consists of combining with a knitting.
frame a guide bar or guide bars, with thick yarns of wool or of other suitable
fibres, and causing the yarns carried by the guides to loop from time to time
on the needles, and thereby produce a piled surface on the knit fabric made
by the knitting frame; by which means, the fabric produced will have one face
of knitted fabric, and the other of loose pile, produced by the guide yarns.
5.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by
the said Samuel Slack Stallard in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
25th July 1854.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Slack Stallard, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel
Slack Stallard, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Samuel Slack Stallard, 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 MANUFACTURE OF KNIT FABRICS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Slack Stallard, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, 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 Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Slack Stallard, 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 object of this Invention is to manufacture by machinery knit fabrics
with a peculiar piled surface, and it consists of combining with a knitting
frame a guide bar or guide bars, with thick yarns of wool or of other suitable
fibres, and causing the yarns carried by the guides to loop from time to time
on the needles, and thereby produce a piled surface on the knit fabric made
by the knitting frame; by which means, the fabric produced will have one
face of knitted fabric, and the other of loose pile, produced by the guide yarns.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to describe
the manner of performing the same.
The Drawing shows a section of so much of the working parts of an ordi-
nary knitting frame (having apparatus applied thereto for carrying out my
Invention) as will enable me to describe my Invention. The nature of the
parts of the ordinary knitting frame shewn in the Drawing being written
thereon, they will be understood, and no further description thereof will be

page_text: required. a is a guide bar, carrying guides a', one to each needle, through
each of which a thick warp thread or yarn of wool or other fibres is passed.
The guide bar a is supported by and moves on axes at the ends, and the bar
is capable of moving endways so as to cause the thick yarns carried by the
guides a to be moved over the needles, and to lap such threads thereon, so
that they may be connected to the back of the knit fabric; by which a
compound knit and warp fabric is produced, composed of the thread from the
ordinary thread carrier of the knitting frame, and loops produced by the
guide threads. Knitted fabrics thus produced will be found very suitable
for the manufacture of gloves, the loose pile formed by the thick warps or
yarns on the back of the fabric serving the purpose of a warm lining to the
glove; and for this purpose I have usually caused the thick yarns carried by the
guides a to be caused to loop on to the needles with every fifth course worked
by the knitting frame. But this may be varied according to the nature of
the piled surface which it is desired to produce on the knit fabric; and I
would remark, that I am aware that guide threads have before been employed
in combination with other threads for the purpose of producing and orna-
menting knit fabrics, but not in such manner as to produce a loose pile to
knitted fabrics.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the precise details herein-described, so long as the peculiar character of my
Invention be retained. But what I claim is, the manufacture of knit fabrics
with one side or surface of loose pile, produced by the introduction of warp
threads or yarns looped on to the needles at intervals, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Slack Stallard, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
30 Witness,
SAMUEL STONE,
Solicitor,
Leicester.
SAMUEL SLACK STALLARD. (L.S.)