and in Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1885

page_text: and in Apparatus therefor.
We JOHN HAINES of 5 Bow Bridge Street, Leicester in the county of Leicester
Fancy Hosiery Manufacturer and ALFRED YATES of the same address trading as
co partners under the style of "Haines and Yates" do hereby declare the nature
of the said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIRCULAR
FABRIC GLOVES AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR to be as follows:-
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What are known as "Ringwood" gloves and the like for which the present is a
good substitute are "raised or "tucked" or made thicker on the hand portion on
hand frames, an expensive process which is obviated by this invention.
Circular fabrio gloves have hitherto been made so that the arm and hand portion
of the glove are quite alike either ribbed or plain but the present method includes
the production of circular fabric for gloves having a ribbed portion of any suitable
length followed by a ribbed tuck made automatically on the same machine so that
a good imitation of the Ringwood is obtained at a much less cost than by the hand
frame process.
The cost of production is reduced, the gloves are more sightly and having no
seam are very durable; also a tucked top may be added not only to add to the
appearance but to strengthen that part of the glove which is strained the most and
therefore the most likely to tear or gape to such an extent as to spoil the fit and
style of the glove.
The fingers are worked in the ordinary way.
By this invention we can produce circular fabric for gloves which may be altered
from ordinary ribbed fabric to a "tucked" ribbed as required by using an ordinary
ribbed head with automatic action in the form of duplicate wheels one of which
after making the plain rib the required length is acted upon by a suitable stud
which sets the other in motion to form the tuck referred to. The automatic
appliance may be regulated to give a certain length of plain rib and also of tuck.
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page_text: and in Apparatus therefor.
We JOHN HAINES, of 5 Bow Bridge Street, Leicester, in the County of Leicester,
Fancy Hosiery Manufacturer, and ALFRED YATES of the same address, trading as
Co partners, under the style of "Haines and Yates," 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 :-
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What are known as "Ringwood" gloves and the like for which the present is a
good substitute are "raised or "tucked" or made thicker on the hand portion on
hand frames, an expensive process which is obviated by this invention.
Circular fabric gloves have hitherto been made so that the arm and hand portion
of the glove are quite alike oither ribbed or plain but the present method includes
the production of circular fabric for gloves having a ribbed portion of any suitable
length followed by a ribbed tuck made automatically on the same machine so that
a good imitation of the Ringwood is obtained at a much less cost than by the hand
frame process.
The cost of production is reduced; the gloves are more sightly and having no
seam are very durable, also a tucked top may be added not only to add to the
appearance but to strengthen that part of the glove which is strained the most and
therefore the most likely to tear or gape to such an extent as to spoil the fit and
style of the glove.
The fingers are worked in the ordinary way.
By this invention we can produce circular fabric for gloves which may be altered
from ordinary ribbed fabric to a "tucked" ribbed as required by using an ordinary
ribbed head with automatic action in the form of duplicate wheels one of which
after making the plain rib the required length is acted upon by a suitable stud
which sets the other in motion.
The automatic appliance may be regulated to give a certain length of plain rib
and also of tuck.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a circular
head adapted for the purposes of this invention.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same and Figures 3 and 4 details of the pattern
wheels.
As the construction and action of the circular head A are perfectly well
understood by those accustomed to such machines there is no need to describe
here more than such parts as are affected by the portions connected with this
invention.
B are the ordinary needle jacks and the desired results are obtained by pushing
these inwards towards the centre of the head-when larger loops such as are used
in slack fancy work are produced- or returning them to their usual position when
a normal stitch for ordinary plain work is produced. This is accomplished as
follows:
The stud C carried by any convenient bracket D serves as a support for the
pattern and starting wheels E and F and also carries the bent lever G which is
pivotted to it at G¹. This lever G is by a slot joint connected at G2 with the
external arm of the bent lever H whose long internal arm H extends downwards

page_text: inside the 'head A as shown in Figure 1; Jever 18 pivotted at fi" to a portion oI
the head or its framework which does not revolve.
The external sliding cam I is carried in a suitable bracket J fixed to a non-
revolving portion of the head and is adapted to be pushed inwards towards the
centre of the head by the end of lever G it then pushes in the needle jacks B with
the result already explained. The internal sliding cam K is suitably carried inside
the head and is connected with the long internal lever H¹ and is moved in or out
with it and serves to restore the jacks B to their original position after they have
been pushed in by lever G.
The spring L serves to keep the end of G upon the pattern wheel E when not
lifted up by means of the step studs E' which are secured upon the wheel when
fancy work is being made.
It will therefore be understood that for plain work the end of lever G rests upon
the plain surface of the pattern wheel E and no movement of the sliding cams I
and K takes place and the normal course of the jacks B is not interfered with.
For fancy work however the step studs E' are used and as each of these comes in
contact with lever G the lever is raised, its other end pushing in the sliding cam I;
when the step stud has passed, G resumes its former position on the face of wheel E
the long arm H¹ restoring the jack B to their former position. The number of
step studs and their position may be varied as desired for various patterns.
Motion is imparted to the pattern wheel E in the following manner:
The stud M' travels round with the mitre wheel M to which it is secured and
actuates the arm N fixed upon the vertical rocking shaft O upon whose upper end
is fixed the arm P which carries the pawls Q and R which engage with the teeth
of the wheels E and F respectively so that each of those wheels receives an
impulse for each revolution of the wheel M. The starting wheel F therefore
continues to revolve at the rate of one tooth to each revolution of wheel M until
it is stopped by reason of the omission of one tooth and the same is true of wheel E
which also has a tooth missing (as shown in Figure 3) so that when the pawl Q
falls into this blank it ceases to turn the wheel, merely moving backwards and
forwards in the blank space.
The teeth upon the periphery of wheel E are larger than those upon F and the
pawl Qis placed further from the centre of motion of the arm P so as to receive a
longer travel to suit the larger teeth of E.
The starting wheel F continues to revolve slowly until it catches up to wheel E
and impels it forward when pawl Q engages with the next tooth and impels the
wheel E round until the pawl and blank again meet, when wheel E stops until
again started by F.
The connection between the wheels E and F is arranged as follows: Segmental
slots E are formed in wheel E and in one of these slots (nearer to or further from
the blank space according to the proportion required between the plain and
ornamental fabric-(the farther from the blank in the direction of the revolution of
the wheel F the greater the proportion of plain work) is a stud S¹ projecting from
the arm S which is free to move round the stud C which carries the two wheels.
This stud S can be screwed up tight in the slot E³ so as to fix the arm S which is
upon the under side of wheel E in any required position upon it.
A stud T projects from the upper surface of F and it will be readily understood
that when this stud which moves round with its wheel comes in contact with the
arm S which is not moving while pawl Q is working in the blank, it moves it on
with it thus turning wheel F and starting it again as already explained.
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. In an apparatus such as described the combination with a pattern wheel E
of a double lever G H adapted to operate the sliding cams LK substantially in
the manner and for the purpose specified.

page_text: 2.-In a circular head the combination with the needle jacks B of sliding cams
such as IK adapted to control the movement of said jacks substantially as
specified.
3.-As a means of controlling the needle jack in a circular head the employment
of the arm H extending into the centre of the head substantially as specified.
4. In a circular head the combination with a pattern wheel such as E of a
starting wheel F the point at which wheel F commences to move wheel E being
adjustable substantially as specified.
5. As a means of adjusting the point of contact between wheels E and F in a
circular head the combination with said wheels of a fixed stud T arm S stud S¹
and radial slots E' the whole constructed and operating substantially as specified.
6. The herein described manufacture of circular fabric gloves in which the plain
and ribbed portions are automatically produced substantially in the manner
specified.