Improvements in the Type of Knitting Machinery generally known in the Trade as Cotton's
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 12th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Type of Knitting Machinery generally known
in the Trade as Cotton's."
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We, JAMES HENRY WOODWARD, and FREDERICK SHAW, both of Lee Works,
in the Town and County of Nottingham, Hosiery Machinists, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The chief object of this invention is to obviate the necessity for the attendant
who has the machine in charge, having to manipulate the racking arrangement
at both ends of the frame after each set of goods or parts of goods has been
completed.
At one end only of the machine we fix a worm frame carrying two separate
travelling slides.
One portion of the screw is cut with a left hand thread, the other portion with
a right hand thread, so that when the screw is revolved the travelling slides move
in opposite directions.
To these travelling slides are fixed the stops controlling the various thread
carriers and the brackets governing the movements of the narrowing rods.
Dated this 11th day of November 1891.
J. H. WOODWARD.
F. SHAW.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Type of Knitting Machinery generally known
in the Trade as "Cotton's."
We, JAMES HENRY WOODWARD, and FREDERICK SHAW, both of Lee Works,
in the Town and County of Nottingham, Hosiery Machinists, 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 chief object of this invention is to obviate the necessity for the attendant
who has the machine in charge, having to manipulate the racking arrangement
at both ends of the frame after each set of goods or parts of goods has beel.
completed.
At one end only of the machine we fix a worm frame carrying two separate
travelling slides.
One portion of the screw is cut with a left hand thread the other portion with
a right hand thread, so that when the screw is revolved the travelling slides move
in opposite directions.
To these travelling slides are fixed the stops controlling the various thread
carriers and the brackets governing the movements of the narrowing rods.
The drawings annexed shew apparatus constructed as above described.
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 an end view.
A is the ordinary narrowing machine shaft.
B and B are narrowing rods.
C and Care arms fixed to the narrowing rods.
D and D' stops fixed to worm-frame slides. The arms C C¹ are held up to these
stops by the action of weights not shewn in the drawing-and the position of the
stops so controls the position of the narrowing rods B and B¹.
E is the carrier rod driven by friction.

page_text: Fa projection from carrier rod coming in contact with sliding stops K and K'.
The stops K K' may be raised to put the carrier out of action when desirable.
G is a right and left hand screw controlling slides I and I' in worm frame.
H and H are brackets carrying sliding stops K and K¹.
I and I are the worm-frame slides.
J is the worm-frame.
K and K are sliding stops coming in contact with projection F and controlling
traverse of carrier E.
N is one of the bracket arms which carry the narrowing rods B and B¹.
M is an extra sliding stop usually fixed in machines of this character in case of
another thread carrier being required.
O is a pinion on the screw G by which a step by step revolving motion may be
transmitted to it in the ordinary way whenever the narrowing rods are to be
shifted.
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 :-
In knitting machinery of the type generally known as "Cotton's" the employ-
ment at one end of the machine of a worm frame with two slides carrying stops
for controlling the narrowing rods and thread carriers such slides being operated
by right and left handed screw threads which when revolved move the travelling
slides in opposite directions substantially as described.
Dated this.9th day of March 1892.
J. H. WOODWARD.
F. SHAW.