IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF FISHING AND OTHER NETS
Year: 1858

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Francis James Candy at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd June
1858.
I, FRANCIS JAMES CANDY, of Haslemere, in the County of Surrey, Master
of Arts, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF FISHING AND OTHER NETS," to be
as follows:-
Upon a suitable bed I fit two socket bars, with as many sockets as there
are intended to be shuttles; one end of these bars is furnished with a rack
geared into by a toothed wheel, in such manner that upon giving motion to
the wheel the bars are moved to and fro in contrary directions. The shuttles
for holding the thread, twine, or other material with which the net is to be
made, consist of frames, each terminating in a foot which fits into the sockets
in the carriers. The thread is wound upon spindles or reels mounted in the
frame, and capable of moving to wind and give off the thread; just above the
foot in which the frames terminate there is a mortice or aperture made for
the reception of fingers, to be hereafter described. On each side of the
machine there is a frame capable of sliding to and fro in a direction at right
angles to the socket bars; each frame supports in bearings what I term a
finger bar, furnished with as many projecting arms or fingers as there are
sockets. At each side of the machine there are two catch bars carrying wires,
which wires are connected to a slide, whereby they may be made to hook or

page_text: to set free the threads, as necessary. One bar at each side is held upon a cord,
the opposite end of which is passed over a pulley at each end of the machine,
and attached to balance weights. The operation of the machine is as
follows: Take as many pairs of shuttles as are required to form the breadth
of net to be made. Every pair having a length of thread wound upon it, half
upon one and half upon the other, turn the finger bars, so that the fingers
point outwards; slide out the finger bar frames, mount the shuttles upon the
fingers, when the threads will be laid across the machine and under a mesh
bar, placed in a space between the two socket bars; engage the threads in
the two catch bars on each side of the machine; slide inwards the finger bar
frames; turn the finger bars, and deposit the shuttles on the sockets of the
opposite socket bars; slide out the finger bars, leaving the shuttles in the
sockets, and turn the fingers outwards; raise up the balanced catch bars with
the threads engaged in the wires therein; traverse the socket bars, so that each
shuttle passes under the thread of the opposite shuttle held up for the purpose
by the balanced catch bar; allow the balanced catch bars to descend, turn
over and inwards the finger bars, and engage the fingers in the mortices of the
shuttles standing on the same side of the machine as the finger bars; freo
the threads from the catch bars; turn the finger bars outwards, when the
fingers will take the shuttles out of the sockets and carry them outwards, when
the threads will be formed into a mesh over the mesh bar; slide the finger bar
frames outwards until the knots are drawn tight over the mesh bar. In
making every alternate row of meshes the threads on the two end shuttles are
not tied.