IMPROVEMENTS MANUFACTURE OF RIBBED HOSE AND SOCKS
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Raven, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester,
Hosiery Manufacturer, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
MANUFACTURE OF RIBBED HOSE AND SOCKS."
IN THE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Raven at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th November 1881.
WILLIAM RAVEN, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Hosiery Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RIBBED HOSE AND SOCKS."
My Invention relates to the manufacture of ribbed hose and socks on the rotary
rib-knitting machine, and it applies more particularly to the time when the machine
is started to make a fresh set of work, my object being to facilitate this process
and to economise the time that elapses between the removal of a set of finished
work and the commencement of a fresh set.
Immediately after a knitting machine is started, and when the work begins to
come away from the needles, it is necessary to adopt some means for keeping it
straight and carrying it clear of the needles; hitherto this has been effected as
follows:-The machine is started, and two or three courses of work are made in
that portion of the hose known as the welt; the machine is then stopped, and a
wire is laid across the work already made, to which is then attached some
appliance for keeping the work at the proper tension; this is a process which
occupies somo minutos.
According to my improvement instead of starting at once to make the welt
I make in the first instance an extra course of work not forming part of the welt,
and which is afterwards removed when it has done its work. I have in readiness
a plate of suitable weight and material, the upper edge of which is furnished with
a row of small hooks; this plate is then suspended by the hooks to the loops of the
above named extra course of work, and the machine being started the work
proceeds in the usual manner.
This process occupies much less time than those hitherto in use.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Raven in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th May
1882.
:
WILLIAM RAVEN, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Hosiery Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RIBBED HOSE AND SOCKS."
My Invention relates to the manufacture of ribbed hose and socks on the rotary
rib knitting machine, and it applies more particularly to the time when the
machine is started to make a fresh set of work, my object being to facilitate this
process and so economize the time that clapses between the removal of a set of
finished work and the commencement of a fresh set.
Immediately after a knitting machino is started, and when the work begins to
come down, it is necessary to adopt some means of keeping it clear of the needles;
hitherto this has been effected as follows:-The machine is started, and that
portion of the work known as the welt is made or nearly made; the machine is
then stopped, and a wire is laid accross the the work already made, to which is
then attached some appliance for keeping it at the proper tension; this is a process
which occupies some minutes.
In carrying out my improvement instead of starting at once to mako the welt
I make in the first instance an extra course of work not forming part of the welt,
which is afterwards removed when it has done its work. I have in readiness a
plate of metal or other suitable material, the upper edgo of which is furnished with
a row of small hooks. By these hooks the plate is then suspended from the loops
of the above named extra course, and the machine being started the work proceeds
in the usual manner. This process occupies much less time than that hitherto
in usc.
Figures 1 and 2 represent respectively front and side elevations of the work
with the weight suspended therefrom, as they appear soon after the machine has
been started. A is the work; a, a¹, the welt; b, b', the extra course from which
the weight C is suspended by the row of hooks c, c', it being understood that the
extra thread b, b', is removed afterwards.
Having now described my said Invention and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood that what I claim and desire to protect under the
hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,-
In the manufacture of ribbed hose and socks, the making of an extra course at
the commencement of the work from which is suspended a weight by means of a
row of hooks, which extra course is so made that it can afterwards be removed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Raven, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty third day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
WILLIAM RAVEN.
L.S.)

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