IMPROVEMENTS IN FRINGING MACHINES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Collins, of the City of Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Machine Maker, for the In-
vention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FRINGING MACHINES."
Sealed the 28th August 1874, and dated the 4th March 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Collins at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th March 1874.
I, JOHN COLLINS, of the City of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FRINGING MACHINES," to be as
follows, that is to say:
My said Invention consists of improvements in mechanism for auto-
matically working two, three, or more needles, with various kinds or
colours of thread or yarn led to and through their eyes at the point, for
forming fancy or ornamental fringes with these by bringing them
sequentially one at a time into action as required to form the device or
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page_text: pattern desired, all in and applicable to fringing machines of the sewing
machine class or construction without an under thread or shuttle, and in
which the thread or yarn to form the loops of the fringe is led from the
bobbins, reels, pirns, or coops in a usual manner to the eye of the
vertically reciprocating needles forced or stitched down through the edge
of shawls or other part of woven fabrics, as for trimmings, requiring the
fringe to be formed on it, by feeding it over the usual feeding plate or
table forward under the usual needles and presser above the ordinary
toothed differentially reciprocating feeding arm working up through a
recess in the bearing plate at the side of the needle hole in the said
pressing foot and plate, the thread being sewn through the cloth to form
the loops at any desired closeness according to the shifting and setting
of the feed motion; while the length of the loops is determined and
formed by the length of the stroke given to the needles and its moving
arm and particularly that of the downward motion or draw of the lever
and its hook, which catches and forms the loops below the plate just as
the needle begins to rise, and opens it out or loose for the hook to enter
and pull it down to the desired length, determined by the position of
fixing the connecting rod pin of its slotted segmental actuating arm,
preferably at right angles or of a bell-crank form, to be actuated direct
by a reciprocating connecting rod from an eccentric or crank pin in the
overhung end disc on the main actuating and preferably silent motivo
cam shaft running longitudinally below the said plate in bearings on a
stand and bow-fixed frame or arm carrying the corresponding bow arm
which works the needle holding bars, other acting mechanism above the
main table carrying the stand and long horizontal and pointed spindlo
upon which the loops and fringe are thread or strung as formed, and fed
forward through a long slit in the plate above behind the needles by
another double-armed lever with a lateral finger, which comes under and
up behind each loop as formed on the drawing down hook, and then
pushing it off this hook on to the curved point of the said spindle for
receiving them, cach pressing the others after being properly stretched
and formed up the curve to relieve themselves. This loop feeding and
transferring lever is worked by an eccentric and rod, and intermediate
two-armed lever and long connecting rod attached to its lower free end,
being carried on an intermediate stud fixed in a segmental slotted
bracket to raise or lower to suit the length of loop and the position of
the other hook and receiving rod, all made to be set at the proper height
to suit the length of loop and fringe to be made.

page_text: The main fly wheel, crank, and belt pulley driving shaft with treadle
motion being carried on the main side standards or frames carrying the
table platform, all much in a usual manner as in sewing machines, and
this class of fringing machines all so far much of a usual construction, the
driving band or cord from the large pulley on the shaft below working up
over a small pulley on the overhung end of the said cam or eccentric
driving shaft at the side of the hand turning wheel with the eccentric
on the inside for working the reciprocating arm of the needle holders,
oscillating on a fixed stud in the side of the fixed bow arm of the frame
by a connecting rod and ball universal joint. And it will be understood
by sewing machine makers that it is also applicable to sewing machines
of other mechanical constructions and arrangements, which will enable
such sewing and fringing machines fitted with my said improvements to
perform a higher class of work quicker and better than has been possible
heretofore with less manipulation on the part of the workers.
And the nature and novelty of my said improvements consist in
making the needle holding bars two, three, or more to slide in vertical
grooves in a flat rectangular or other frame fitted in longitudinal hori-
zontal angled slides on the front fixed frame or arm, over the needle
hole in the presser foot and feeding table, and on the inside of the front
of the reciprocating end of the bow lever for working the said needle
bars by a horizontal slot on the inside of its head which embraces the
actuating pin of any one of these bars brought into the slot at any time
by the lateral action of the frame carrying them in its said slides, by a
pin near the middle on its back face between the guides, and a connect-
ing rod leading from it to the top end of an oscillating vertical lever,
rocking on a fixed stud low down on the fixed arm or its stand frame,
actuated by a lateral stud and antifriction roller on its middle part,
working into a cam groove in the face of a large disc keyed on the same
spindle as a large spur pin wheel working in a single or double threaded
projecting cam or collar on the middle of the cam shaft below the pins,
so as to work between them and keep the wheel and cam always
stationary, except when a short angled or screw cam part of the collar
comes round, when it turns the wheel and cam to the extent of one
tooth or pin for each revolution of the cam shaft, and just at the time
the needle bar and its acting lever are at the highest part of their stroke,
when there is little or no vertical motion, so as to shift the rocking lever
by the cam, and the sliding frame to the extent of one needle bar,
A 2

page_text: removing the one out of the centre line of the groove in the actuating
arm and hole in the plate below, and one of the others into line and
working action, those not in action having a lateral projection part
which is pushed over a stationary rest or groove out of the working line,
so as to retain them always at their highest position ready for being
drawn into the working line and their working pin into the acting
groove or slot in the head of the reciprocating lever. The groove in the
cam would be segmentally stepped to the two, three, or four different
heights of shift to be given to the rocking lever corresponding to and
required by the number of needle bars in use and their distance apart,
and although both a screw or pin wheel and cam have been described as
turned simultaneously on a fixed stud by the annular angled or screw
thread cam on the driving shaft below it, it is to be understood that
annular rows of holes may be formed in the side of the pin toothed
wheel for the insertion of lateral pins stepped at different radial distances
corresponding to that of the pins or teeth in the screw wheels, where
the different needle bars have to be brought into working action, and
these made to pass into and act in fixed angled cam grooves on the sido
of the vertical rocking lever to shift it and the frame of needle bars in
an equivalent manner and instead of the disc groove cam herein-before
described.
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Another improvement consists in forming a small holo through the
spindle which receives the loop of the fringe as formed some consider-
able distance from the point instead of near the back end as usual for
passing a string through it and the loops as a "leash" thread to
facilitate the taking of them off the spindle and retain those removed
safely, while the rest are successively removed and the whole being
completed.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
COLLINS, of the City of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North
Britain, Machino Maker, send greeting.
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page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four; in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said John Collins, Her special
licence that I, the said John Collins, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Collins, 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, usc, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FRINGING MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Collins, 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 samo 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 John Collins, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement in writing, reference being had to the several Figures
on the Sheet of Drawings, and to the reference létters and numerals
marked thereon, which I have hereunto appended for the purpose of
showing the best modes and means I am at present aware of for putting
my said Invention into effect or practice, the same reference letters
and numerals indicating the same or like parts in all the Figures where
shown.
Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a side and a front end elevation of a
fringing machine of the sewing machine class fitted with one con-
struction and arrangement of the parts of my improved mechanism
.constructed to work with two needles in accordance with my said
Invention, but with the. back end of the arm A¹¹ and spindle as
broken off and removed in both views for want of space in the Sheet;
and Figure 3 is a plan of the main working parts of the same, corre-
sponding to Figure 2, but with the stationary carrying and working
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page_text: needle arms A and B, and feeding table or plate E removed to show the
parts below the latter more clearly.
Figures 4 and 5 are a plan and a front end elevation of the upper
part of a similar fringe sewing machine to that shown in Figures 1 to 3,
but fitted with a modification of my improved mechanism for working
three or more needles sufficient to show the construction and action
thereof, all in accordance with my said Invention.
Referring to these Figures 1 to 5 the main stationary stand frame A,
with its bow arms A' and longitudinal flange A" for carrying the
working needle arm B, and driving and other working, mechanism, is
screwed on to the sole plate A" below the long arm A""" which carries
the standards H³ for holding and fixing the long bent pointed spindle H
for receiving the loops of the fringe Z¹ as finished, and for securing the
whole to the bench or table is shown as broken away at A. The main
shaft C which actuates all the working parts of the machine is carried
in the long bearing A³ and a short one in the flange A", and is actuated
by the grooved pulley C¹and a band X passed over it from a large pulley.
on a fly wheel prime moving shaft, either actuated by a treadle foot
action or by motive power, as desired. The needle working arm B is
fulcrumed on the stud centre B¹ fixed in the upper part of the frame
arm A¹, and is actuated by the joint pin B" and connecting rod B¹¹¹ by
the eccentric C and shaft C close to the driving pulley C¹ and hand
wheel C. This shaft C by an eccentric or crank pin at D" near its
front end also actuates the differential feeder D, D¹, and reacting
spring D, rocking on the slot and pin D, the upper feeding teeth
part D¹ working up through a slotted recess in the feeding plate or
table E screwed at E¹ to the top of the flange A" and having the foot F
of the spring presser F¹ above it carried in the front bracket A³ of the
frame arm A, all so far referred to, much of a usual construction in
fringing machines of the sewing machine class without under threads or
shuttles.
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My said Invention consists particularly of improvements in mechanism
for automatically working two, three, or more needles a¹, a¹¹, a¹¹, with
various kinds or colors of thread or yarn 2¹ led through guides z¹, 2¹¹, 111,
and the eyes at their point a for forming fancy or ornamental fringes ¹
by bringing these needles sequentially one at a time into action as
required to form the colored device or pattern fringe desired, and which

page_text: are all applicable to and performed in fringing machines of the sewing
machine class, constructed without an under thread or shuttle, as shown
in the several modifications and Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, 5, of the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings. And referring to Figures 1, 2, and 3
particularly, the thread or yarn to form the loops of the fringe is led
from the bobbins, recls, pirns, or cops, much in a usual manner over the
guides ¹, 1, 11, 111, one to each eye a of the vertically reciprocating
needles a¹, a", forced or stitched down through the edge of the shawl Z
(or it might be other parts of other woven fabrics, as for trimmings)
requiring the fringe to be formed on it by feeding it forward over the
usual feeding plate or table E fixed under the needles and usual
presser F, F, above the ordinary toothed differentially reciprocating
feeding arm D, D', working up through a recess in the bearing or
feeding plate E at the front and side of the needle hole in the said
pressing foot F and plate E; the thread z being sewed through the
cloth Z to form the loops Z' at any desired closeness, according to the
shifting and setting of the feed cam D2, while the length of the loops is
determined and formed by the length of the stroke given to the needles.
a', a", and their moving arm B, and particularly that of the downward
drawing motion of the lever G and hook G¹, which catches and forms
the loop Z' below the plate E just as the working needle a¹ or a",
whichever may be in action, begins to rise and opens to form the loose
loop for the hook G₁ to enter and pull it down. to the desired length,
determined by the position of the fixed stud G" and the connecting rod
pin G of its slotted segmental actuating arm G² of this lever of the
bell-crank form, preferably set at nearly right angles to and be actuated
direct by a reciprocating connecting rod G³ from an eccentric or crank
pin C in the overhung end or disc of the main actuating and preferably
silent motion power shaft C, running longitudinally below the feed plate E
in bearings on the stand A, A", and fixed bow frame or arm A¹ carrying
the corresponding bow arm B, which works the needle holding bars
61, 6, all as before stated. This shaft also actuates the mechanism
below the feeding table E and above the main carrying plate A of the
stand A, A", and long horizontal and bent short pointed spindle H,
upon which the loops and fringe Z' are pushed, threaded, or strung as
formed by the hook G', and fed forward through a long slit E¹ in the
plate E, just above the front of the spindle H, behind the working
needle. This pushing or delivering of the loops, each as finished, off the
hook G on to the point of the spindle H is done by another double-

page_text: armed lever I with a lateral finger I', which comes under and up
behind each loop Z', as formed on the drawing down hook G', and then
pushing them off this hook on to the curved point H' of the said spindle
for receiving them, each pressing the others after being properly
stretched and formed up the curve H³ to relieve themselves and pass on
to the body of the spindle H; this loop feeding and transferring lever
I¹, I", is worked by an eccentric J on the shaft C behind the frame
flange A", and a connecting rod J¹ and intermediate two-armed lever
J, J, fulcrumed on a stud C" on the bracket J attached to the
flange A", and a long connecting rod J³ attached to the free end of the
lower arm J, and to the lower free end I" of the first lever I', I". The
stud of this lever is fixed in a segmental slotted bracket K formed on
the bracket J to raise or lower it to suit the length of loop, and
the position of the other hook G¹ regulated by the slotted arm G* and
receiving spindle H, raised and lowered by its carrying bracket L
and screws L' in its standards H", all set to a proper height to suit the
particular length of loop and fringe to be made, as seen in the detached
plan, Figure 3A.
This lever and eccentric mechanism and connecting rods and spindle
for forming and receiving the loops when finished, letters G to K, are
much the same as in other fringing machines I have been making for
some time; but the construction and arrangement of the parts of the
mechanism in this modification of my Invention, Figures 1 to 3, for the
use and working of two needles and their different colored threads,
consist as follows:-Each needle a¹ or a¹¹ is fixed by screw gripers 6 to
the bottom end of a slide b¹ and 6" working in vertical angled or dovetail
grooves in the flat, rectangular, or other equivalent plate or frame c,
fitted to slide horizontally in the longitudinal horizontal angled guides
or slides c¹ formed at the top and bottom of the front fixed frame A³ of
the arm A, all so that as the plate c is so shifted in its grooves c¹ either
needle is brought over the hole in the presser foot and feeding table
formed for it to work through, and on the inside of the front end of the
reciprocating bow lever B a horizontal slot B is formed, open at the
front and back ends for receiving the actuating pin 62 of either of the
bars 6¹ or 6¹¹, Figures 1 to 3 (or any one of the three needle bars b¹, 6¹¹, 3
or 6, Figures 4 and 5), brought into this slot B' and working position
of its needle at any time by the lateral action of the frame c carrying
the set of needle bars in the slides c' by a pin d on its back face, near

page_text: the middle between these guides, and by the connecting rod d' leading
from it to the top end of the vertical oscillating lever du rocking on the
stud joint or centre d at its lower end, fixed to the stand frame A, A',
and is actuated by the lateral stud and antifriction roller d on its middle
part, which works into the cam groove e³ keyed or otherwise fixed on
the same spindle e' as the vertical spur, screw, or pin wheel f, both
working on the stud e¹ secured in the bracket e¹ projecting up from
the stand A, A, and having its teeth geared into the single or double
form of thread or collar projecting cam f¹ secured on the middle of the
cam shaft C, below the teeth or pins f* of this wheel f, which works
between the cam collars f¹, and keep this wheel ƒ and came always
stationary, where the collars are plain, as at f', except when the short
angled or screw cam part f" of the collars f¹, and which joins them at
the middle, comes round, when it turns the wheel f and came to the
extent of one tooth or pin f' for each revolution of the cam shaft C, all
just at the time the acting needle a is up out of the cloth, and its bar
and actuating lever B, B2, are at the highest part of their stroke, and
eccentric C turning the lower centre, and these parts have little or no
vertical motion, at which time the rocking lever d¹¹ is shifted by the
cam e, to move the sliding frame o back or forward to the extent of one.
needle bar, so as to remove the one out of and the other into the centre.
line of and the pin 62 of the bar into the groove B' in the actuating
arm B, with its needle in working action over the hole in the plate
below. The bar 6' or ", not in action, has a lateral projecting part on
it at b, which is then pushed laterally to one side or the other over the
rounded end of a stationary rest or groove g out of the working line, so
as to retain it (or them, when there are more than one needle bar out of
work) always at the said highest position, ready for being drawn into
the working line with its working pin 62 into the acting groove or
slot B in the head of the reciprocating lever B. The groove e* in the
cam e is in this case cut or stepped segmentally to the two different
heights or radii of shift from its centre to be given to the roller d³ of the
rocking lever, corresponding to the distance of the needle bars, as seen
dotted in in Figure 2, and to their number when there are three or more
needles and bars in use, as shown in Figures 4 and 5.
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Still referring to Figures 1 to 3 the advance free end f¹ of this
duplex collar cam takes into each successive division between the
teeth f of the wheelf, as they come round a little before the rear free

page_text: end ƒ³ clears the former division, so that this wheelf and the came are
always in gear and stationary during the whole revolution of the shaft
C, while the needle is making its traverse up and down, and the change.
only takes place as before stated during the short pause when the needlo
and its bar are at the top, by the bevelled part f" of the cam f¹ and
curved or angled stepped part e'; joining the segments of different, radii
of the cam groove e² and which always coincide in position, the seg-
ments being always equal to a proportional division of the number of
teeth in the wheelf, which in this case has thirty-two teeth, while
'the large segment which keeps the needle and bar a', 6', in working
position is equivalent to 16 of these teeth, as also that of the small
segment, which keeps the needle and bar a", 6", in working position, so
as to give the like number of stitches with cach colored thread, which
they work successively and alternately every revolution of the wheel f
and pattern cam e; the pattern segments of which however might, it
will be obvious, be made or divided into any proportional parts of the
number of teeth in the wheel f, so as to give 2 and 2, 2 and 4, 4 and
4, and 4 and 8, stitches of each colored thread successively.
Another improvement consists in forming a small hole h through the
spindle H which receives the loop of the fringe Z as formed some con-
siderable distance from the point for passing a string h' through it and
the loop as a "leash" thread from time to time to facilitate the taking
of the loops or fringe off the spindle H and retaining these succes-
sively as finished and removed safely while the rest are being
completed, all in contradistinction to the mode heretofore employed,
and to save the trouble of "unshipping" or removing and replacing the
spindle H at H³, every time the finished loops or fringe have to be
removed from it.
Referring to the modification of my said improved fringing machine or
mechanism shown and referred to in Figures 4 and 5, the three needles
a', a, a, and their bars b, b, b, are carried from their shifting plate c,
substantially described in reference to the former Figures 1 to 3; but
the plate c is moved by a stud d secured in a projecting snug c* on
it, over the vertical arm d¹ of the bell crank d¹, d", fulcrumed to a fixed
stud secured to the bracket A*, projecting out from the lower part
of the head As of the bow frame A'. The top end of the vertical arm d
of the said lever d³, d", is connected by a slot and sliding bush d* to
the pin d of the plate c, while the free end of the horizontal arm d¹¹ has
.

page_text: a stud and antifriction roller d, d, which works on the upper face
near the edge of the pattern disc cam e, or over pattern segments e³, e³,
of different heights to raise or lower the horizontal end d" of the bell-
crank lever d¹, d", and push or draw the vertical arm d' and the plate o
jointed to it so as to place and keep the first needle a' in the working
vertical position when the roller d² is raised by and passing over the
highest segment e³, as seen in this position in Figure 5, and when the
roller is working on the lowest segment e³ the middle needle a" is in
working position, and when the roller is working on the surface of the
disc e itself in the segmental spaces between or where there are no
pattern segments, then the third needle a¹¹ is in the working centre
line; in each case the needle is worked by the pin 6* of its recipro-
cating bar entering the slot B* in the free end or head of the actuating
lever B, all as explained in reference to Figures 1 to 3, the needles
and their bars not in action being also retained by the projections b.
on the lower ends of the bars being supported in the groove or on the
rounded lower flange g thereof, all as shown and stated in reference to
[Figures 1 to 3. The plate c and levers d', d", are held steady with the
roller, always working down on the upper surface of the pattern
segments e³, e³, or cam disc e, while the needles are being actuated down
and up to form the loops of the selvage by the spring & attached to a hook
at the top of the arm d' of the bell-crank lever and a stationary hook d
attached to the arm A¹ in the frame. In this case the pattern cam
disc e and its actuating screw or pin wheelf fixed on the same eye or
boss e¹ are made large and worked horizontally on the stud e¹¹ fixed in a
bracket ¹¹ secured and projecting laterally from the back stand part A
of the frame, so that the teeth f* of the wheel f work into the collar
cam ƒ¹‚ƒ", which actuates the wheel fone tooth at a time, as described
in reference to Figures 1 to 3, but there are sixty teeth in the wheel fin
this case to give greater power and variety or change to and for the
three needles and different colors or kinds of thread or yarn, which.
would give regular sequential repeats of 2, 4, 10, or 20 stitches or loops
of each needle and its colored thread and many other irregular sequences
which would repeat in the sixty divisions.
For being able to attach the shortest or longest pattern segments e³ or
the rim of the pattern dise e, where the roller d' runs, is perforated
with small holes i to every 2 or 4 teeth or so for the pins to pass up.
through from below and fix the segments, and over their bevelled ends.

page_text: as to steady the plate c and proper needle bar in the true working vertical
line.
It will be understood that although the wheels f have been described
with pins or angled screw teeth and worked by an angled collar cam,
they might also be worked by a wheel with ratchet teeth, turned one
tooth at a time by a pawl or other equivalent, and the annular rows of
holes may be formed in the side of the pin toothed wheelf for the
insertion of lateral pins stepped at the different radial distances or
heights laterally, and corresponding in distance apart to a proportional
number of the pins or teeth in the wheel of where one of a number of
different needle bars has to be brought into working action, and as these
pins come round they are made to pass into and act on a short fixed
angled cam groove on the side of the rocking lever d³ or its equivalent
to shift it and the frame c of needle bars in an equivalent manner
instead of the disc groove cam or pattern segments described in reference
to Figures 1 to 3 and 4 and 5.
Figure 6 shows a plan of improved mechanism or mechanical motion
actuated from the main shaft C by a pair of small bevel wheels w, w¹, the
latter having double the number of teeth of the former and working on
a stud centre w¹¹ and with a cam wo³ behind it, having two stud rollers r
on one end of the connecting rod wo³ working on the cam surface w³ so
that the free end of the connecting rod w³ which is attached by a lateral 2
slot to a pin ¹ in the back arm of the feeder D' made to oscillate on a
centre von its moving block D oscillates the front toothed arm D¹
laterally every alternate stitch and so as to sew the fringe on and over
or on both sides every alternate stitch of the very edge or selvage of the
shawl or fabric, preferably in machines with one needle, but it might be
by one or more of the needles of machines with several needles, as
shown in Figures 1 to 5.
. It will be understood by sewing machine makers that these my im-
provements for the use and action of two or more needles in fringing
machines of this class are also applicable to sewing machines of other a
mechanical constructions and arrangements than those to which I have

page_text: here shown them, and which will enable such sewing fringing machines
fitted with my said improvements to perform a higher class of work
quicker and better and with less labour or manipulation on the part of
the workers than has been possible with fringing machines heretofore in
usc.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner of performing it, I would observe that
I make no claim to the construction and arrangement of the parts
indicated by capital letters by themselves, except so far as they are
essential to and combined with the new parts indicated by italic letters,
neither on the other hand do I restrict myself to the precise construction
and arrangement of these new parts herein described and shown, as
many variations may be made therefrom without departing from the
main or essential features of my said Invention, but what I consider
novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me
by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
First. The construction and arrangement or combination of the parts
of fringing machines as a whole, of the old with the new parts, sub.
stantially as herein described and distinguished in reference to and
shown in Figures 1 to 3, and 4, 5, of the accompanying Drawings, or
any merc modification thereof.
Second. The construction and arrangement of new or improved motive
and pattern mechanism in fringing machines for bringing any one of a
set of two, three, or more needles into working position, as required, for
making or sewing ornamental fringes on shawls or other fabrics either
back from or at and over the selvages or edges, all substantially as
herein-before described and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Third. The arranging of two, three, or more needles and their bars in
a sliding frame in fringing machines so as to be able to move any one of
these into working position by pattern mechanism, all substantially as
herein-before described and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Fourth. The construction and use in fringing machines of a toothed
pattern wheel and cam, or cam disc or wheel itself, with stepped cam
grooves, segments, or pins for shifting and retaining any one of a set of
two, three, or more needles in working position, all substantially as

page_text: herein described and distinguished in reference to and shown in the
several Figures of the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Collins, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
W. R. M. THOMSON,
Patent Agent,
Glasgow.
JOHN COLLINS. (L.S.)