IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TUBULAR OR DOUBLE FABRICS IN WARP MACHINERY
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Haimes, of Melbourne, in the County of
Derby, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
TUBULAR OR DOUBLE FABRICS IN WARP MACHINERY."
Sealed the 15th June 1866, and dated the 17th April 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Haimes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
f April 1866.
I, THOMAS HAIMES, of Melbourne, in the County of Derby, do hereby
5 declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF TUBULAR OR DOUBLE FABRICS IN WARP MACHINERY," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
tubular or double fabrics in warp machinery. In manufacturing double or
tubular fabrics for gloves or other purposes in warp machines only plain
fabrics have been heretofore made by lapping the threads over two needles,
and in such manufactures the joinings of the selvages or the seams formed at
the sides of the fingers and other parts of gloves and parts of other tubular
fabrics were by reason of the fabrics being made by lapping only over
two needles composed of comparatively open work, and were wanting in
substance.

page_text: Now according to the present Invention the guides are caused to lap over
more than two needles, so as to produce any desired fabrics, plain or fancy;
which, however, is not new when making single fabrics in warp machines, but
such lapping over more than 2 needles has not heretofore been effected
when making double or tubular fabrics, where in the course of working com-
paratively wide fabrics are to be divided into several narrow breadths, such as
for the fingers of gloves; but by the present Invention this division is ren-
dered capable of being accomplished notwithstanding the lapping over three
or more needles, and at the same time the seams or joining of the edges or
selvages of the several parts into tubes are made more solid. For these
purposes three or more of the guides of each guide bar next the selvages or
parts where the wider fabrics are divided into several breadths, and also where
the edges or selvages of the wider fabrics are to be seamed or joined by the
working of the machine, are on separate slides or instruments independent
of the main guide bars and of each other, which separate slides or instru-
ments are actuated by jacquard or other pattern surfaces, and are capable of
separate action from the main guides, and also separate action from each
other, by which better fabrics and better and more solid seams are produced;
and in place of the guides simply lapping their threads on the needles they
have a vertical or rising motion given to them, by which the accumulation
consequent on the inequality of the threads is prevented.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Haimes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th
October 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
HAIMES, of Melbourne, in the County of Derby, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth 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

page_text: Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TUBULAR OR DOUBLE FABRICS IN
WARP MACHINERY," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Thomas Haimes, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 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 improvements in the manufacture of
tubular or double fabrics in warp machinery. In manufacturing double or
tubular fabrics for gloves or other purposes in warp machines, plain fabrics
have been heretofore made by lapping the threads over two needles, and in
such manufactures the joinings of the selvages or the seams formed at the
sides of the fingers and other parts of gloves and parts of other tubular fabrics
were by reason of the fabrics being made by lapping only over two needles
composed of comparatively open work and were wanting in substance.
Now according to the present Invention the guides are caused to lap over
more than two needles so as to produce any desired fabrics, plain or fancy;
which, however, is not new when making single fabrics in warp machines,
but such lapping over more than two needles has not heretofore been effected
when making double or tubular fabrics, where in the course of working com-
paratively wide fabrics are to be divided into several narrow breadths such as
for the fingers of gloves; but by the present Invention this division is ren-
dered capable of being accomplished notwithstanding the lapping over three
or more needles, and at the same time the seams or joinings of the edges or
selvages of the several parts into tubes are made more solid. And in place
of the guides simply lapping their threads on the needles they have a vertical
or rising motion given to them, by which the accumulation consequent on the
inequality of the threads is prevented, and provision made for the better
delivery of the threads under the beards of the needles.
In carrying out the Invention, whilst not confining myself to the precise
details, I prefer to employ the arrangement of machinery shown in the
Drawings hereunto annexed.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows in transverse section the guide bars and needles of a warp
machine arranged for making gloves, and Figure 2 is a front view of a portion
of the same.
:
In the arrangement shown the guides of two only of the guide bars are
arranged to lap their threads over three needles, the other two guide bars.
lapping over two needles; but this arrangement may be varied, as the guides.
of all the guide bars may be caused to lap over. three needles, or the guides of
some or all of the guide bars may be caused to lap their threads over more
than three needles; the arrangement shown is, however, the one that I prefer,
as a sufficiently close fabric is thereby produced.
In the Drawings A is a bar running horizontally from end to end of the
machine; the bar is capable of turning in bearings B, which can slide up and
down in vertical slots C¹ in the end framings C of the machine; one end only
of the bar is shown in Figure 2. To the under side of the bar A plates D
are bolted at intervals, and these plates support the guide bars (marked.
respectively Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4); the guide bars have for this purpose short pins E.
connected to them, which pass through holes in these plates, and the guide bars.
are prevented from turning on these pins by pins D¹ carried. by the plates D.
passing through slots in the arms D2, which are bolted to the ends of the
guide bars, as shown; the last of the pins E at that end of the guide bars,
which is shown in the Drawing has each a rod F connected to it; the opposite
end of each bar has a spiral spring attached to it, which tends constantly to.
draw the bar towards that end of the machine. The ends of the rods F are
each formed with a slot, through which passes a vertical lever that is acted on
by a cam or pattern wheel. These cam or pattern wheels are fixed on an
axis carried by a frame, not shown in the Drawing, which is bolted at G, G,
to the top of the bar A, so that this frame rises and falls with that bar; on
the axis of the pattern wheels is a ratchet wheel acted on by a pawl or driver
acted on by a cam on the main cam shaft, so that a step-by-step motion is
given to the ratchet wheel, and consequently to the pattern wheels when the
bar A has descended the ths of an inch herein mentioned, and also when it has
again ascended to the highest position. The leads of guides fixed to each of
the guide bars carry slides, to which are affixed the guides which are required
to be moved differently to the guides carried by and which are affixed in
leads to the bars. These moveable slides and guides are indicated by red
lines in the Drawing, and where these guides are situated the other guides are.
omitted from the fixed leads of the guide bars. The slides at that end of

page_text: the machine which is shewn in the Drawing have spiral springs connected to
them, and at their opposite ends they are connected with jacquard apparatus,
by which any of the slides can be moved endwise independently of the other
slides, and also independently of the guide bars. In the arrangement shown
No. 1 guide bar carries four slides, Nos. 2 and 3 each carry six slides, and
No. 4 guide bar carries three slides; six of these slides, viz., slide 1 of No. 1
guide bar slides 1 and 2 of No. 2, and also of No. 8 bar, and slide 1 of No. 4
bar are used for forming two of the selvages or divisions between three of the
fingers; another six of the slides, viz., slide 2 of No. 1 bar, slides 3 and 4 of
No. 2, and also of No. 3 guide bar, and slide 2 of No. 4 guide bar are
required for forming the division between the little finger and the next finger;"
the slides for forming this division are separate from the slides for forming the
division between the other fingers as in making a glove; this division between
the small and the next finger is commenced to be formed before the divisions
between the other fingers. Six other slides, viz., slide 3 of No. 1 guide bar
slides 5 and 6 of No. 2 guide bar, and also of No. 8 guide bar, and slide 3
of No. 4 guide bar, are for making the outside selvages at the two sides of
the hand; they also are for making the selvages at the two sides of the
narrow tubular fabrics, which are formed to be cut up into thumb-pieces, and
which have to be afterwards sewn on to the hands of the gloves. Slide 4 on
No. 1 guide bar is for forming a mark or line down the hand of the glove, to
mark the place where the thumb-piece is to be sewn in.
On Sheet 2 of the Drawings I have shown three Diagrams to represent the
lappings of the threads to produce the selvages or joinings at one of the
divisions between the fingers; the outside selvages are similarly formed, and
therefore I have not thought it necessary to give a Diagram of them."
Diagram No. 1 shews the lappings of the threads carried by the thread guides
of the guide bars. Diagram No. 2 shews the position and lappings of the
threads carried by the guides of the slides; and Diagram No. 3 represents.
the positions and lappings of all the threads. In these Diagrams each pair of
rows of dots represents but one row of needles; the lower row of each pair
is for the purpose of shewing how the guides carrying the threads are led
between the needles as the guide bars move across them; and the upper row
of each pair shows the position of the guides when the guide bars are moved
back to again pass the guides between the needles. From the first Diagram
it will be seen that the guides of the guide bars Nos. 1 and 2 lap their threads
over the needles of No. 1 needle bar, and that the guide bars Nos. 3 and 4
lap their threads over the needles of No. 2 needle bar; it will also be seen
that the guide bars Nos. 1 and 4 lap their threads over two needles only, and

page_text: that but one of the guides is removed at the division line between the fingers;
the guide bars Nos. 2 and 3, as shewn by the Diagrams, lap over three
needles, and two of their guides are removed at the division line. After the
guide bars have worked twice with the needles of the needle bars, in the
manner shewn by the Diagram, they again and again repeat the same move-
ments. From the Diagram No. 2 it will be seen that the threads carried by
the slides of the guide bars Nos. 1 and 4 first lap over one needle in one of
the needle bars, and afterwards lap over the opposite needle in the other
needle bar, as was heretofore the case when making gloves by lapping the
threads of all the guide bars over two needles only. The guides of the slides
on the guide bars Nos. 2 and 3, on the contrary, after lapping their threads
over a needle in one of the needle bars in place of lapping over the needle
opposite to it in the other needle bar lap over the needle next to it, and thus
a better selvage or join is produced than could heretofore be the case.
When the hands of the gloves are being made the slides, which are for the
purpose of forming the divisions between the fingers, have the same motions
imparted to them as the guide bars which carry them when the divisions
between the fingers are to be made; the slides which are to form the division
between the little finger and the finger next to it are worked in the manner
shewn by the Diagram No. 2, and afterwards at the time required for making
the divisions between the other fingers, the other set of finger slides are
operated in a similar manner. When the desired length of finger has been
produced the machine again commences to form the hands of the gloves.
Figure 3 of the Drawings shews the arrangement I prefer for giving to the
bar A, which carries the guide bars, a rising and falling motion in addition to
the swinging motion heretofore imparted to it.
As before described in reference to Figures 1 and 2, the bearings B which
receive the ends of the bar A are capable of sliding to and fro in vertical
slots formed in the end framings. Beyond these bearings each end of the bar
is embraced by the upper end of a connecting rod H, which at its lower end
is jointed to a lever I, which turns at I' on a pin fixed to the framing; the
opposite end of the lever carries a roller I, which rests on a cam fixed on
the main axis K, which carries the cams for swinging the bar A on its axis,
and for operating the other parts of the machine. In Figures 1 and 2 the
bar A is in its highest position, and the two needle bars in their lowest posi-
tion. As one or other of the needle bars rise for the guides to pass between
its needles the bar A is allowed to descend by preference about ths of an inch,
the guide-bars are shogged, and the bar A is turned on its axis to cause the
guides to pass between the needles; the bar A then again descends about th

page_text: of an inch, and so brings the threads of the guides well under the beards of
the needles, and the guides then swing back through the needles; then the
needle bar descends and the bar A rises simultaneously to its highest position,
and the pattern wheels act on the guide bars. When the other needle bar
rises the bar A again descends a distance as before, the pattern wheels (which
govern the endway motion of the guide bars) are again turned partly round
to cause the guide bars to shift end wise to the proper positions for them to
swing through the needles of this needle bar after the guides have swung
through these needles, the bar A again slightly descends as before mentioned,
and for the same purpose, the bar A then again rises, the pattern wheels are
actuated, and the same movements are repeated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Haimes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
THOMAS HAIMES. (L.S.)