Improvements in Knitting Machines Suitable for Producing Surgical Elastic Work
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 9th Nov., 1897-Accepted, 11th Dec., 1897
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Improvements in Knitting Machines Suitable for Producing
Surgical Elastic Work."
I, MATTHEW BURDETT MORETON, of 17 Agard Street, in the Town and County of
Derby, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention applies to knitting machines such as are described in the
Specification of the Patent granted to Arthur Frederick Longdon, No 8881, of the
year 1889.
In order with facility to arrange the machine to work with a greater or lesser
number of needles I make the needle guides in sections which can be separately
secured to or detached from a stationary bed or supporting bar.
In the annexed drawing:-
a is the bed or supporting bar. 6 is a section of the needle guide, and c is a needle
lying therein; it is capable of being moved longitudinally in the needle guide by the
cam box.
The part a has a nose or projection a¹ to which the sections of the needle guide fit;
they are kept in place thereon by a dovetail plate d which also.keeps the needles
down in the guides when in work.
e is an appropriate locking part to lock and restrain the sections of the needle
guides at their rear ends. is a dovetail slide which is used to keep the needles in
place in the sections when these are removed from the machine.
Dated this Oth day of Wohm 1907
CARPMAEL & Co.
Agents for the Applicant.
"
'Improvements in Knitting Machines Suitable for Producing
Surgical Elastic Work."
I, MATTHEW BURDETT MORETON, of 17 Agard Street, in the Town and County of
Derby, 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:-
This invention applies to knitting machines such as are described in the
Specification of the Patent granted to Arthur Frederick Longdon, No 8881, of the
year 1889.

page_text: In order with facility to arrange the machine to work with a greater or lesser
number of needles I make the needle guides in sections which are separately
movable so that the needles carried by any one or other of them can be put into or
out of action as may be required.
My improvements are shown in the drawings annexed.
Figure 1 is a front view of part of one of the needle beds.
Figure 2 is a cross section on the line a 6 Figure 1.
Figure 3 a cross section on the line c d.
Figure 4 is a cross section of one of the needle beds showing a section of the needle
guide with its tail end locked into its lowered position.
b b are the
a is the supporting bar carrying the guides for one row of needles.
sections into which the needle guides are divided. cc are the needles (see Figure 2)
-they are capable of being moved longitudinally to and fro in the needle guides by
cams carried by a cam box which is recriprocated to and fro in the ordinary manner
-the cams acting upon the nebs or projections c¹ on the heel ends of the needle
stems.
The part a has a nose or projection a¹ standing up from it to which the sections b
of the needle guide fit-this nose or projection is rounded on the top so that the
sections b can turn upon it through a small angle. ee are slides by which the tail
ends of the sections 6 can be held up in either one or other of two positions. When
all the slides are pushed inwards into the position shown in the drawing the tail ends
of the slides are held up into such a position that the projections c¹ on the heel ends
of the needle stems will be acted on by the cams of the to and fro reciprocated cam
box and work will be produced on all the needles.
When any one or other of the slides is drawn downwards the tail end of the
section 6 which rests upon it will be lowered so that the nebs or projections c¹ of the
needles carried by that section will be lowered below the path of the cams carried by
the cam box and the needles carried by that section will consequently be put out of
action.
When the slides are thus drawn down they lock the sections and restrain them
from again rising into acting position as shown in Figure 4.
d is a dovetail sliding plate which holds the front ends of the sections down on to
the projections a¹.
ff are short dovetail slides one for each section-they serve to keep the needles
in place in the sections when these are removed from the machine.
gg are stops to prevent the needles from sliding down out of the slide grooves
formed in the sections-the stops are held in place by short dovetail slides h.
By making the needle guides in sections in the above way and by mounting these
sections such a way that any one or other of them can either be turned into a
position for the needles carried by it to be put out of action or into a position for
the needles to be brought into action-great facility is given for arranging the
machine to work with a greater or lesser number of needles for making fabrics of
different widths or for forming pockets or swellings in the fabric for knee caps or
bandages or for the breasts of ladies vests and such like.
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. Forming the needle guides in sections each carried by the needle bed in such a
way that its rear end can be raised or lowered either to bring the nebs on the tail
ends of the needles into position to be acted on by the reciprocating cams or out of
position to be acted on by them substantially as described.
2. The combination of the needle bed or supporting bar formed with a nose or
projection standing up from it the sections of the needle guides fitting loosely at
their front ends on to this projection a bar or plate holding down the front ends of
the sections and slides acting on the tail ends of the sections to raise or lower them
substantially as described.

page_text: 3. Forming the slides in such a way that when the tail ends of the sections are
lowered they retain them in the lowered position.
4. The construction of knitting machines substantially as herein before described
and illustrated in the drawing annexed.