improvements in Knitting Machines.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1886
Specification Accepted, 28th Oct., 1887
improvements in Knitting Machines.
A communication from POLYDORE BEVERNAGE-STANDRING, of Gand, in the Kingdom
of Belgium, Manufacturer.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, M.I.M.E.
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 object of this invention is to save the knitting machines, with straight needle
bed and cams on the Lamb system from the wear and tear produced by friction and
to this end the principal parts of the machine are covered and protected at the points
where the friction takes place by wearing pieces which are not expensive and quickly
and easily replaced.
The principal parts subject to wear and tear are the needle plate in the grooves in
which the needles move and at the top between the tooth rack where the needles bear,
then the keys which fix the needles and the carriage which slides upon them.
In the accompanying drawings;
Fig. 1 represents part of the needle plate of the Lamb system full size.
Figs. 2 and 3 sections of the same full size.
Fig. 4 a plan view of the carriage half size.
Fig. 5 a section of figure 4.
R R
are the
grooves of the needle plate, cand c¹ are the two needle keys, a are the
needles, D are the teeth of the tooth rack, & L are the wearing plates, the object of this
invention, placed in the grooves against the sides thereof. They are held in position
by the keys c and c¹ and by the needles themselves and are constructed of very hard
tempered steel.
m is a wearing plate the object of this invention, fixed by means of screws to the
tooth rack in such a manner that all the needles bear upon it; it also is constructed
of tempered steel.

page_text: n are the wearing plates the object of this invention, fixed by screws on each
end of the upper key c and on these plates slides the carriage; they also are of
tempered steel.
pare the wearing plates the object of this invention fixed by screws to the friction
surfaces of the carriage and also are of tempered steel.
By the use of these wearing plates the wear and tear is greatly reduced and the
working of the machine rendered easier, the wearing plates being of a much, harder
metal and of a finer polish than the parts of the machine they protect. These
wearing plates can be inexpensively and quickly replaced, thus renovating the entire
machine.
It is of course understood that the wearing plates may be constructed of any suitable
material and that the plates protecting the two sides of a groove may be replaced by
a U shaped piece so as also to protect the bottom of the groove.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention, as
communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
:-
combination with
placed within the
1. In a " Lamb" or similarly constructed knitting machine the
the grooves R R of the needle plate, of wearing plates such as
said grooves against the sides thereof substantially as specified.
2. In a machine such as described the combination with the tooth rack D of a
wearing plate m substantially as and for the purpose specified.
3. In a machine such as described the combination with the upper needle keys c of
wearing plates n substantially as and for the purpose specified.
4. In a machine such as described the employment of wearing plates such as m n
and p fixed to such parts of the machine or carriage thereof as are subjected to
friction substantially as specified and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th day of December 1886.