IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TAKING UP THE WORK OF CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF KNITTING MACHINERY
Year: 1850

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
WARWICK, of Cheapside, Warehouseman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of June,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty, in the thirteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Warwick, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Charles. Warwick, my
exors, adñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Warwick,
my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR TAKING UP THE WORK OF CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF KNITTING
MACHINERY," communicated to me by a certain Foreigner residing abroad;
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said
Charles Warwick, shall cause a particular description of the nature of tho
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part' recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Warwick, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
(that is to say) :-
:-
By an arrangement of knitting machinery now coming into general use,
the instruments are placed in a circle, and the fabric is produced therefrom in
a cylindrical form, and as it descends from the working instruments the fabric
is constantly moving round. Hence it has been found difficult to arrange
apparatus by which the work as it is produced may be taken up. And it is
customary for the attendant employed upon such machinery, from time to
time, as the work is produced, to fold or roll over the parts of such cylinder
of fabric upon itself, and thus prevent its descent upon the floor. Now the
object of the Invention is so to arrange mechanical apparatus to be used
in connection with such description of knitting machinery, that the work may
be caused to wind itself upon a suitable spindle or roller, by the act of the
fabric revolving round in the process of manufacture. And in order that the
Invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe the Drawing
hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a side view and Figure 2 a section of apparatus arranged
according to the Invention; and it is intended that apparatus according to the
Invention be placed immediately under the circular knitting machinery in
connection with which it is to work, or that the axis of motion of the two
apparatus be in the same line, and the cylinder of fabric is to be conducted
from over the fronts of the needles down between the guide bars a, a, to the
spindle b, to which the end of the fabric being made is to be secured in any
suitable manner. One. means of temporarily securing the end of the fabric,
and which has been found to answer, is to permanently affix a narrow slip of
cloth or canvas to the spindle, and the end of the fabric being produced is
then sewed or otherwise fastened to this slip of canvas. The rods a and the
spindle bare carried by the frame c, which it will be seen is carried by the
upright shaft c, with a capability of turning in the pedestal d whilst the work
is being produced. Upon one end of the spindle or roller b is fixed the
ratchet wheel b', which is taken into and has motion given to it so as to
wind the work as the work is produced, by means of the clawker e, which
is constantly borne up to the ratchet wheel 6' by means of the spring f, and

page_text: its lower end the clawker e is carried by the shorter end of the lever g, which
turns upon the axis g¹ carried by the frame c, and at its other end carries
a truck or roller g. It has been stated that the cylinder of fabric in the
act of its manufacture moves round, and when the fabric is introduced between
the guide rods a, a, the frame c will be caused to revolve on its axis c³, simply
by the motion or drag of the fabric. In such movement the truck 92 of the
lever g will be caused to come successively in contact with and rise over the
rises d', formed upon the fixed plate d² of the pedestal d, by which the
clawker e will be caused to take into fresh teeth of the ratchet wheel b¹, and
the descent between the rises d' of the longer end of the lever g will by its
weight cause the ratchet wheel to move round short distances, by which the
work will be wound on to the spindle b. h, is a set screw to regulate the
descent of the lever g, and consequently the amount of take-up. i is a treadle
lever, capable of being acted upon by the foot to raise the axis c¹, and conse-
quently the lever g, out of the way of the rises d', when required.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would remark, that I do not confine
myself to the details, so long as the peculiar character of the Invention be
retained.
But what I claim is, the mode herein described of combining apparatus
for moving away or taking up work as it is made by circular knitting
machines.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Warwick, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty.