Improvements in Machinery for Stretching and Affixing Stockings to Embroidery Machines.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 16th Apr., 1894-Accepted 25th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Stretching and Affixing Stockings
to Embroidery Machines.
I GEORGE BAINES Elm Villa Hoveringham in the County of Nottingham Lace
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
:-
Improved stretching frame for embroidering stockings and other small pieces of
material consisting of a rectangular framework, about two feet eight inches in
length by about two feet in depth, made of wrought iron or other suitable material
carrying a number of small vertical rollers made of brass, iron, or steel tubing
with a row of pins from end to end of rollers about half an inch apart to which
the stockings gloves mits or other material is affixed by having ten such frames as
the above I am enabled to fill a four and half or five yard machine both top and
bottom in a very few minutes. Thus greatly facilitating the changing of the
machines by the above frames I am enabled to operate upon upwards of four dozen
stockings at one time. By this means I am coabled to make a variety of floral
designs hitherto not produced by hand work.
Dated 14th July 1803
GEORGE BAINES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Stretching and Affixing Stockings
to Embroidery Machines.
I, GEORGE BAINES, of Elm Villa, Hoveringham, in the County of Nottingham,
Lace Manufacturer, 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 relates to apparatus more particularly applicable to multiple
embroidery machines, for stretching and holding stockings or other small articles
in position in the machine during the process of embroidering.
It will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation showing my invention applied to a multiple shuttle
embroidery machine parts only of the latter being shown.
Figure 2 is an elevation, and
Figure 3 a plan of apparatus constructed according to my invention.
Figures 2 and 3 are drawn to a larger scale than Figure 1.
Like letters represent like parts throughout the drawings.
In carrying out this invention I employ a number of detachable frames a
preferably of a height so as to conveniently fit into the ordinary pantograph
framing 6 and of a width according to the number of articles it is desired to mount
on each frame a. Journalled in the upper and lower parts of each frame a are
one or more pairs of preferably parallel rollers or bars c provided with projecting
pins or the like d. Each article is mounted on a pair of rollers or bars c and as
shown in the drawing each frame is provided with five pairs of rollers, but this
number may be increased or diminished, for example it may, in some cases, be
more convenient to mount each article on an independent frame, when only one
pair of rollers or bars c would be required to each frame.

page_text: The article to be embroidered is stretched longitudinally as it is mounted on a
pair of rollers or bars c, each side, as it is stretched, being pushed on to the pins d
of each roller respectively, it is then stretched transversely by turning one or
both of the rollers or bars c in their bearings but in opposite directions in which
position they are held by a ratchet wheel e on the end of each roller c engaging
with a pawlf pivotted to the framing.
The upper and lower edge of the article may also be held in position by bars g
provided with pins hooks or the like to engage with the article and slots to fit on
studs g' on the framing.
The detachable frames a¸ are held in the pantograph framing b by pins h in the
lower part of the former fitting into corresponding recesses in the latter and by
turn buttons i on the pantograph framing b or other suitable device.
With the foregoing arrangement stockings gloves mits or other small articles
are readily mounted on the frames a and as these frames are detachable and may
be interchanged for a duplicate set, one set being filled whilst the others are in
use a great saving of time is effected in changing the articles in the machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In apparatus such as described the combination with a frame of one or more
rotatable rollers or bars such as c provided with pins d or the like substantially as
and for the purpose described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In apparatus such as described the combination with a frame such as a of
one or more rotatable rollers or bars such as c provided with pins or the like d
ratchet wheel or wheels e and pawl or pawls substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. In apparatus such as described the combination with the pantograph or its
frame of a detachable frame such as a provided with one or more rotatable rollers
or bars e provided with pins or the like d substantially as described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
4. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete apparatus
for stretching and holding articles or fabrics in an embroidery machine substantially
as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 14th day of April 1894.
GEORGE BAINES.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.