Improvements in the Manufacture of Glove and other Fabrics in Traverse Warp Machines.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 9th Nov., 1888
Improvements in the Manufacture of Glove and other Fabrics in
Traverse Warp Machines.
I, JOHN UPSDALE of 4 Falcon Avenue, Falcon Street in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates mainly to the manufacture on traverse warp machines of
fabrics from which gloves are to be made. According to my invention I make such
fabrics with those parts from which the top end of the fingers are to be formed thicker
than the other parts-preferably effect this as follows:
Where thickened work is to be produced every other course is not pressed in but
is worked with a knock off course leaving the loops on the needles so that at the next
course there will be four threads on the needles instead of two-and in addition
I insert an inlay thread from side to side after the manner of a weft thread. This
insertion of a weft thread in the knock off course holds the threads of that course
better for work and gives additional thickening. The thickening may be put in at
spaces to suit different lengths of gloves.
An inlay thread may similarly be inserted at every course without the knock off
courses or the knock off courses may be used without the inlay thread but I prefer
to use knock off courses in conjunction with inlay threads as above described.
Other fabrics than those used for making gloves may similarly be thickened
wherever it may be desired.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Glove and other Fabrics in
Traverse Warp Machines.
1, JOHN UPSDALE of 4 Falcon Avenue, Falcon Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:—
The invention relates mainly to the manufacture on traverse warp machines of
fabrics from which gloves are to be made. According to my invention I make such
fabrics with those parts from which the top end of the fingers are to be formed thicker
than the other parts-preferably I effect this as follows:-
Where thickened work is to be produced every other course is not pressed in but
is worked with a knock off course leaving the loops on the needles so that at the next
course there will be four threads on the needles instead of two--and in addition
I insert an inlay thread from side to side after the manner of a weft thread. This
insertion of a weft thread in the knock off course holds the threads of that course
better for work and gives additional thickening. The thickening may be put in at
spaces to suit different lengths of gloves.
An inlay thread may similarly be inserted at every course without the knock off
courses or the knock off courses may be used without the inlay thread but I prefer to
use knock off courses in conjunction with inlay threads as above described.
Other fabrics than those used for making gloves may similarly be thickened
wherever it may be desired.
In carrying out my invention I proceed as follows:- employ a traverse warp
machine such for example as is described in the Specification of a Patent granted to
William Hemsley in the year 1851 No. 13635.
The cams of this machine are formed to produce two courses of work for cach
revolution of the cani shaft.
The cams used to give the forward motion to the sinkers to cause them to knock
the loops of work off the needles I alter by making one of its prominences which
cause the knocking off of the work to be readily removable so that this prominence
can be put out of action whenever required when the prominence is removed the
sinkers would only knock off the work at every other course-one of the cams so
formed with a removable piece is shown at Figure 1.
I also similarly make one of the prominences of the cams used for actuating the
presser readily removable whenever required so that when this prominence has been
removed the presser may only close the beards of the needles at every other course-
one of these cams is shewn at Figure 2.
To produce the fabric with alternate bands of plain and thickened work I proceed
as follows. I make a band of plain work such as shewn at a in the diagram
Figure 3 of plain traverse warp fabric in the ordinary manner. When a band of
sufficient width has been formed the working of the machine is arrested and the
moveable pieces are taken off from the cams above mentioned and the machine is then
worked in the following manner to produce a band of thickened work.

page_text: The driving shaft of the machine is turned either by hand or by power until a
knock off course has been completed and the work has been pushed back on to the
stems of the needles. The machine is then stopped, which the attendant can readily
do by the ordinary stop mechanism and the attendant by hand lays a thickening
thread loosely on to the top of the needles. A bobbin of the thickening thread may
for this purpose be conveniently mounted at one end of the machine near to the end
of the needle bar so that the workman may when the thread is to be laid on to the
needles take hold of the end of the thread and walking along at the front of the
machine draw the thread off from the bobbin and let it. lie loosely over the top of all
the needles.
The machine is then again started when the next course produced would be a plain
course and the loops of work left on the needles at the previous knock off course as
well as the thickening or inlay thread layed on to the needles will be knocked off the
needles and the thickening thread will so be enclosed between these loops and the new
loops left on the needles.
The next course will be a knock off course and the machine will be again stopped
at the end of this course and so on until a band of the width required of thickened
work has been produced-the removeable portions of the two cams are then put back
into place and the machine is worked to produce plain work in the ordinary manner
and so on continuously.
The fabric formed in the above manner is subsequently cut up into pieces cach of
the form required for making a glove as indicated by the lines e in Figure 3.
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The thumb pieces d are cut separately and are sewn to the body of the glove
where the slit e is cut in it as is usual.
As before stated the thickening or inlay thread might be omitted or the knock
over courses but I prefer to produce the thickened work in the way described.
Traverse warp fabrics to be used for other purposes than being cut up into gloves
may also as above stated be similarly formed with alternate bands of plain and
thickened work.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The manufacture of fabrics suitable for being cut up into gloves substantially in
the manner herein before described.
2. A traverse warp fabric formed in alternate bands of plain traverse warp fabric
and of thickened work produced by alternately forming an ordinary working course
and a course in which the loops of work are not cast off the needles and by laying a
weft thickening thread on to the needles after each of these latter courses.
3. A traverse warp fabric formed in alternate bands of plain traverse warp fabric
and of thickened work produced by alternately formning an ordinary working course
and a course in which the old loops of work are not cast off the needles.
4. A traverse warp fabric formed in alternate bands of plain traverse warp fabric
and of thickened work produced by laying a weft thickening thread on to the needles
between the courses of work.
Dated this 5th day of September 1888.
JOHN UPSDALE,