Improvements in and Appertaining to Machines known as Frames" Used in the Manufacture of Cardigan Jackets and the like.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 15th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 25th Jan., 1887.
Lamb
Improvements in and Appertaining to Machines known as
Frames" Used in the Manufacture of Cardigan Jackets and the
like.
We BENJAMIN WALTER RUSSELL of Welford Place, Leicester Fancy Hosiery Manu-
facturer and THOMAS HUXLEY of the same address, Manager, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our Invention numbered 3974 of 1885 describes "improvements in the manufacture
of cardigan jackets and the like and apparatus therefor" the improved mechanism
including an additional border needle plate and other gearing described which it will
be observed we incorporate with the existing Lamb Frame i.c. by utilizing the frame
bed for the additional needle plate, also by employing the same cam box and by
combining the apparatus giving motion thereto which in the case of alteration of old
frames may be in some instances expensive.
The object of our present invention is therefore to construct a bed of suitable size
for the border fabric to receive a border needle plate as before described and by
providing an additional cam box to operate therewith the mechanism may be made
independent of the Lamb machine and may be applied to form independent mechanism
at the side of existing machines by means of angle iron or other supports from the
existing beds.
A pattern wheel and the racking and other gearing described in connection there-
with (in our former invention) may be added to the independent mechanism now.
proposed suitable toothed gearing or belt motions being provided to communicate
power thereto from the Lamb frame.
The shaft carrying the sleeved rollers may be extended a sufficient distance so that
the rollers may be under and work freely within the present mechanism.
It is therefore to be seen that our present object is to provide separate and
independent mechanism incorporating the main features of our former invention so
that it may be an addition to and not form part of the Lamb machine.
The bed of the present border mechanism is preferably fixed even with the bed of
the Lamb machine.

page_text: Improvements in and Appertaining to Machines known as Lamb
Frames Used in the Manufacture of Cardigan Jackets and the
like.
We BENJAMIN WALTER RUSSELL and THOMAS HUXLEY of Welford Place Leicester,
Hosiery Manufacturers, 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 :-
Our invention numbered 3974 of 1885 describes improvements in the manufacture
of Cardigan Jackets and the like and apparatus therefor, the improved mechanism
including an additional Border Needle Plate and other gearing described which it will
be observed we incorporate with the existing Lamb Frame, i.e. by utilizing the frame
bed, for the additional needle plate, also by employing the same cam box and by
combining the apparatus giving motion thereto which in the case of alteration of old
frames may be in some instances expensive.
The object of our present invention therefore is to construct a bed of suitable size
for the Border fabric to receive a Border Needle Plate, as before described and by
providing an additional Cam box to operate therewith, the mechanism may be made
independent of the Lamb Machine and may be applied to form independent mechanism
at the side of existing machines by means of angle iron or other supports from the
existing beds.
A pattern wheel and the racking and other gearing described in connection there-
with in our former invention may be added to the independent mechanism now
-proposed, suitable toothed gearing or belt motions being provided to communicate
power thereto from the Lamb Frame.
The shaft carrying the sleeved rollers may be extended a sufficient distance so that
the rollers may be under and work freely with the present mechanism.
It is therefore to be seen that our present object is to provide separate &
independent mechanism incorporating the main features of our former invention so
that it may be an addition to and not form part of the Lamb Machine.
The bed of the present border mechanism is preferably fixed even with the bed of
the Lamb Machine.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a front elevation of such parts of a
machine as constitute our invention.
Figure 2 is an end elevation of the same machine.
Figure 3 is an elevation of the back part of the machine shewing where the driving
mechanism is applied.
Figure 4 shews the interior of the cam box.
In Figure 1Z is the principal or what may be termed the existing standard of an
ordinary Lamb frame, to which the gearing shewn is attached.
To this frame or standard are fixed brackets A' which serve to support an upright B
thus forming a framework for the border mechanism. Z is an ordinary bar on which
the Cam box K rests and works so that the Cam box may traverse to and fro over

page_text: the surface of the needle plate A, the said Cam box receiving its motion from the
jointed lever Y attached thereto and to the framework at Y³.
A making plate or bed A, similar to that in our previous patent, is employed, and
sleeved rollers T upon which the fabric produced is wound, carried on the shaft Tat
the end of which are the ratchet wheels T operated by means of pawls.
As separate gearing is employed to work the Cam box K we avoid the use of the
sliding Cam L and the spring Q in our former patent, as we have an almost fixed
course for the needles as shewn.
up and down
As it is not now necessary to move the triangular piece or block "m
as in our last patent, the course or groove W remains unaltered, as shewn in Figure 4,
with the exception that the blocks e may be raised or lowered, by means of a set
screw worked within the slot a¹.
* "
It will be understood that working at the back of the machine is a Cam box, similar
to the one K at the front of the machine, as shewn in Figure 3 to which the jointed
lever Y for working same is attached.
Y is one end of the lever secured to the Cam box. Y2 is a joint at the top of the
vertical rod Y, which is fulcrumed at Y³, another joint is provided at Y, and the
remaining end of the lever is attached to a crank wheel or eccentric Y³, which receives
motion from the wheel Y, the latter being driven from a pinion on the main driving
shaft Y.
By employing suitable sized interchangeable toothed wheels the speed of the border
frame can be regulated as required. We may if desirable regulate the traversing
motion of the Cam box to produce the requisite quantity of border fabric for one jacket
in the same time that the Lamb Machine makes the body of the same, or, we may
increase the speed of the Cam box of the Border frame so as to produce border fabric
for three or more jackets in the same time, and thus supply other jacket frames which
do not incorporate our improvements.
It will be understood that new Lamb frames may be constructed after our principle,
and that the ordinary Lamb frame may be made with our mechanism forming part of
the frame, as described and claimed in our former invention, or separate and apart
from the frame, or attached to it, as described in the present specification, in the latter
case without interfering with the existing bed of the Lamb frame.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim-is-
1. The combination with a Lamb or other similar knitting frame of separate and
independent needle plates A and Cam boxes K for knitting the border fabric of
cardigan jackets such Cam boxes being operated by levers Y actuated by charge gear
wheels Y, Yand Y7 by which the speed can be varied substantially as specified and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In combination with border knitting mechanism such as described the levers
and arms Y, Y, X2 Y and Y for imparting motion to the cam boxes K substantially
as specified and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
BENJAMIN WALTER RUSSELL,
THOMAS HUXLEY.