US1062557A

US1062557A - Knitting-machine.

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Publication number: US1062557A
Application number: US5?480310A
Authority: US
Inventors: Bernard T Steber
Original assignee: STEBER MACHINE Co
Current assignee: STEBER MACHINE Co
Publication date: 1913-05-20
Anticipated expiration: 1930-05-20

Description

13. T. STEBER.

KNITTING M AGHINE.

TION FILED NQV. 29. 1910.

Patented May 20, 1913.

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' B. T. STEBER.

KNITTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION TILED NOV. 29, 1910.

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KNITTING MACHINE, .APPLIUATRON HIIEP 240V. 29. 1910 1,962,557. Patented May 20, 1913 6 SHEETS SHEBT 3 B. T. STEBER.

KNITTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 29, 1910.

Patented May 20, 1913.

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B. T. STEBER.

KNITTXNG MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.2D .1910

Patented May 20, 1913.

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BERNARD T. STEBER, OF UTICA, HEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE STEBER MACHINE COMPANY, OF U'I'IGA, NEW YGRK, A CQRPORATION OF NEW YORK.

KNITTING--MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 20. 1 91 3.

Application filed November 29, 1910. Serial No. 594,803.

To allwhom if may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNARD T. STEBER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knitting-Machines; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full. clear. and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it nppertains to make and in the foruuition of the ribs, and the fabric 1 a a whole presenting a single entity, the webs of which are not independent.

\Vith this and further objects in view as w ill be in part hereinafter stated and in part will become obvious. the invention c on1- prises ccrtuin novel constructions, CORlbH1t1- tions nnd'arrnngcments of parts as wi l bi. herein specified and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective viewo'f a knitting; machine mulmuying the features of the n-eseni inrcnlion. Figs. '2 and I are vertical, central :-4"lllii=w theretln'ough. one being taken at right angles to the other. and parts being broken away. the (ii-Lil cums with the dial cup imnoved. Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic view illustrating the cylintlw and diail needles and came de I vcloped as an extension or on a flat plane.

'l ig. (3 is u fragmentary top plan of the dial Fig. l is :1 top plan view of 5 cup, indicating a method of adjustment of certain iiiul coins. tion of a. section of Fabric produced by the niuchine and proje ted iron] :1 section of fabric such as constitutes the hose or two-- \Hlb t'uhric from which the ribbed fabric is Fig. 7 is a view in elem I iornied. the two sections of fabric uifordiiif cxzunplc of an embodiment of the invention, l

a knitting machine is shown in the uccon'r pouring drawings which is particularly well adapted to produce the form of fabric illusi trated at the right of Figs. 7 and 8. However, it is obvious that the invention is not limited to this particular example, but coinprehends all mechanical equivalents and substitutes.

For a definite and detail understanding of the embodiment of the invention illustrated. reference will be had to the accompanying drawings in which-- 4 1. indicates the needle cylinder mounted upon and fixed to 12%"? bed plate 2 sustained by bracket 3 carrie by standurd 4. Stand urd 4 may be supported on any suitable base 5 and extends above the bracket 3 and is provided with a. cross piece 6, and a pendent rigidly connected supporting member 7. Fixed to the lower end of the member 7 is a collsrB, and surrounding the member 7 imniediaitely above collar 8 and resting thereon i the dial 9. which may be clumped and thus rigidly connected to the member 7, by set.

screws

19, 10. Above the dial is the dial cum ring 11 fixed to (and carried by the dial cap 12, which cup is in turn carried by a sleeve 13 revolubly surround ng the support ing member 7, the sleeve 1 being in turn surrounded by and connected to a collar 14. set

screws

15, 15, clamping the collar and sleeve to ether. The collar 14 is connected by redial arms 16 to vertical post 17, which in turn have their lower ends fixed to the operating ring lil rotziti ely mounted in the bed plate 2 and provided with the operating gear 19 adapted to be driven in the usual manner by a beveled gear not illustrated. The cylinder cairn ring, 20 surrounds the cylinder 1 nnd'is mounted upon and fixed to ring 18 for. being driven thereby. The cvlinder is g'froovcd vertically for the reception and guidance of cylinder needles, which needles are divided into two sets a and a".

the needles of one set alternating with the I n edles oi the other throughout the cylinder. The dial is grooved rudi lllv for the Til 313 tion and guidance ot :liul needles, which nre divided similnrl into sets 5 and 7/. the needles of one set alternat ng throughout the dial with the needles of the other set. The needcs of the rc pectiviisets both in the cylinder and dial may be distinguished by any of the well known means of separating needles into sets, but for ciearness and fncil it) of illustration, I have selected long and shortnccclles as representative of the two sets, in each needle bed, and in this connecll t 5: Mil be observed that the needle beds at illustrated cylinder and dial may muons other forms.

l )ial cap 13 carries t'our yarn feeds 23 and El. the mounting of each on the cap being preferably adjustable: as illustrated. ()bviously, any multiple of the feeds illustri-itt-d may be utilized, but for clearness of (llSClt'lStlZQ only four have been shown, and on straight machines but two feeds would be 'rcquircd Where the taking of the. yarn occurs only once with each movement of the parts in one direction.

The needles of the cylinder and dial are each divided into two as for instance, long and short needles, the long needles in each needle carrier being actuated by certain cams and the short needles by other cams. Obviously, this method of dividing the needles into sets may be modified as preferred, but; for facility'of description and illustration the set of long cylinder needles will be referred to as set a; the set of long dial needles 7;; the set of short cylinder needles as set It. and the set of short dial needles as set I)". These needles may, of course,- be arranged nmnerically in What ever clusters or groups the particular operator may" select, but for facility of illustration, and as a preferred emruidimcnt, the lon needles in each needle bed have been indicated as disposed in successive alternation with the ncedlcs of the short set. and for the production of the fabric hereinafter described the same number of, needles is utilized in each set as in any other set. Another important feature of the arrangement of the needles resides in the fact, which will be obvious from a study of Fig. 5;- ot the drawing, that. any one long needle of the dial operates in the c-1pace between a long and short needle of the cylinder, beiu a ranged, for instance, to operate at i left of the long cylinder'ncedle and vowscrpicntly at theright of the short cylinder needle, and each short; dial needle is similarly arranged to operate in the space between each two of the cylinder needles, as for instance. at the left of a particular long cylinder needle and at the right. of the adj-i cut short cylinder needle.

As clearly seen in Fl i. 4 and 5, the dial nccdlcsare actuated by (rains timed relative to the action of the cams of the cylinder as well as to the disposition of the respective yarn feeds, thcre being a cam 21 and a cam 21 for successive actuation of the needles of set 6, the remainder of the cam path for needles I) being disposed for preventing operation and for holding the saixl needles in a retracted condition, While cams 23 and 533 an: disposed 'for actuating the needles ofthe set I) succossivtlv, and the cam path of the needles 32"15 shaped to leave the needles 5- inactive and retracted during the ren'iaintler of the rotation of the dial cap from the can]. 23" to the cam 23. Of course, each cam 21, 2t", :23 and 2? is made up of the pair of cam surfaces necessary for effecting a knitting operation, that is a needle pushing out or projecting cam surface, and a needle retracting or stitching cam surface, both surfaces for facility being herein referred to as a camv in order to facilitate rendering certain of the dial needles inactive at times, as for instance, the set I), the projecting cam sur faces of

cams

23 and 23" are made adjust.- ahle by having the material of the cam ring ll cut, awa at the back or inside of such surfaces, as indicated at- E2 leaving adjustable portions 25, of the cam ring outside of such cut-away portion. Each portion is connected to the dial cap 12, as clearly seen in Fig. 6, by a pair of adjustable set screws or bolts 25*, 25, extending through

slots

25, 25", in the dial cap 12, whereby, by loosening screws 25", portions 25 may .he adjusted inwardly sutlicicutly to cause the short dial needles to remain inactive and to take no yarn whatever. The

cams

23 and 23" as illustrated each has an auxiliary or approach cam portion 25 leading up to the respective portion 25, and to insure against any undesired movement of the short needles, each of such auxiliary portions 25 is rendered adjustable by retaining set screws or bolts 25, extending through slots 95 25 in the dial cap, each set screw 25 having its lower end threaded into the respective portion and its up per end provided with the usual head en'- gaging the upper surface of the dial cap in the same manner as screws 25. When adjusting the cams for throwing the short dial needles out of operative condition, the screws 25"". are loosened, portions 25 mo ed inwm'dly, the screws 2 moving in the slots iii)". and. when the portions 25 have been moved sutlirieutly innardly, the screws 25 are tightened so that their heads engage the upper surface of the dial cap, and the threaded lower ends draw the portions 25 tightly in position. The portions 25 are then similarly adjustedinwardly, the adjustment of tlaportions 25 occurring prior to the adjustment of the portions 25 owing to the lapping: otthe latter over the former. 'lo rci stahlish t ic operative condition of the short. dial needles. the rain portions 525" are first rcadjustcl to their outer position, and then cam portions 25 are corrcspondiugly readjusted. ()liviously the short dial needles have been selected merely for purposes of illustration, and the same clloctive adjustment of the actuating cams of the other set of dial needles may be provided instead.

By reference to Fig. 5, it will be seen that below cams 21 the cylinder is provided with a cam 22" for actuating the set of needles o means? or long cylinder needles. Beneath can. 21' a cylinder earn 24 is provided for netuating the short cylinder needles or set a. while beneath earn 23 of the dial a mini 22 proi'ided for the cylinder for actuating the long: cylinder needles or set. it, and beneath earn it of the dial a cylinder cam 24 is provided for actuating the short cylinder needles or set a. Thus in o}'|eration earns 22 and .21 cooperate to actuate the needles of the sets It and b at yarn feed 21, While earns 34 and 21" cooperate to actuate the sets of needles a and b at feed 22. Then cams Q2 and 23 cause the cooperation of needles (1 and I, at feed 23, followed by the action of cams 524 and 23 causing the coope 'ation of needles (1 and b at feed 24. Thus the operations of the machine are naturally divided into two distinct units. one represented by the successive operations of the short dial needles, or one set of dial needles, first with respect to the long cylinder needles. or one set of cylinder needles. and then with respect to the short cylinder needles, or the other set of cylinder needles. The other unit of operation consists of the actuation of the other set of dial needles relative to the cylinder needles,as for instance, the short dial needles acting first with respect o the long cylinder needles and then with respect to the short cylinder needles. Either one of these two complete units may be eliminated by the removal or rendering inactive of a respective set of dial cams, as for instance, the throwing out of action of the cams 2.. and whereupon the other unit of operation may continue and will produce another form of fabric, not herein illustrated, but embodying a product of one species of the genus of the present invention. To again knit the more complex fabric. such as seen in Figs. 7 and 8. it is only necessary to move the portions 25 and 525* to the position for rendering cams 29- and 23 active.

in operation. for elearness of illustration. it should he understood that the two sets of cylinder needles when knitting alone at all four yarn feeds and Without the presence of the dial at. all. alternate feeds being taken by a ne set only. and the other alternate feeds by i the other set only. will produce a fabric comprised of two plain. flat Webs. such as is illustrated at T. at. the left of Figs. 7 and It is. of course. understood that the function of a dial needle in an ordinary ribber is to knit Wales of loops in the ei'inne tintr yarn or sinker Wales between the cylinder needle wales which thus produces a rib. lVhen but one unit of operation is being carried out. as by the throwing out of operation of cams 23* and 23", the active dial needles not first with respect to the Web being made by one set of cylinder needles. and then with respect to the web being made by the other set of cylindcrneedles. so that the first loop on a given i i l l r l l l l l l l l l l l dial needle will be drawn from the sinker Wale; connecting the needle wales of one or" the basic webs. and the next loop on the same dial needle wi l be drawn from the next ulier Wale of the other basic Web. whereby the rib produced by a particular dial needle will be composed of successive alternate loops of )zttn llllilillrlf up the two independent needle wales on the outer or cylinder face of the fabric.

in the knitting of ordinary ribbed fabric. it is common to feed yarn to the. cylinder needles and then when they rise to pull the ribbing wales by the dial needles from the sinker Wales connecting the cylinder needle wales. but obviously a com erse relation in the action of the needles may be provided. and the same mechanical action will occur. one set of needles producing the basic fabri and the other set drawing in the sinker wales to make the fabric ribbed instead of plain stitch. Of course, where a machine is actually making ribbed fabric there is no point in the fabric Where the plain Web is ap parent. as each course is knit into a rib as it progresses. so that the reference to the two plain webs herein merely bears .out a theory of operation which facilitates an under standing of the construction of the machine and its functions. If at any time all of the dial needles were thrown out of action, the cylinder needles would produce the two dis tint-t inter-looped. fiat webs and as soon as the dial needles were placed in action again the ribs would again appear. the two Webs being iuterllnit into a single ribbed Web, and

in the instance of the operation of but one set of dial needles. each needle of that set pulls :2 loop from a sinker Wale of one web ol the basic fabric at one side of one cylinder needle. and then pulls a loop from the next sinker Wale of the other Web of the basic fabric at the other side of the adjacent cyliiuler needle of the other set. stance. where only the long dial needles are operating. one long dial needle will pull a loop at one ide of one long cylinder needle. so to the right thereof. and will then pull its next loop at the other side. say to the left. of the adjacent hort cylinder needle. The same is true where only the short dial needles operate, It will thus be noted that by reason ot the lelntiW positirming of the dial and c linder needles, the thread constituting the stitches hit-h are drawn in by the dial need has to form needle Wales producing loops in the inner t'nce of the fabric d scribes lines similar to the outline of an ordinary saw tooth. that is. haying a long inclined strand or sinker Wale extending one way. and a short strand or sinker Wale disposed at an angle thereto, so that the saw tooth has the appearance of leaning in a direction away from the long strand or sinker male. as clearly seen at the right of Fig, 8 the saw For in;

tooth. being drawn in by a needle of one set of dial needles int-lining in one direction when taken from a given set of cylinder needles and in an opposite direction when taken from the other set of cylinder'needles, that is inclining in one direction in one course and in another direction in another course, whereby the long strands of one course are caused to cross the short strands of the preceding course. This is true re gardless of whether all of the needles in the dial are operating or not. i\n one dial needle will cti'ec't the same result so far as the production of the oppositely inclined saw tooth stitches i concerned by reason of its cooperation with at least one needle of each of the two sets of needles in the cylinder.

\Vhen the embodiment of the fabric seen at the right of Fig. 8 isjto be produced, the cams 23* and 23 are thrown into action and all cylinder cams are restored to oierative condition and yarnis supplied to eeds .23 and Q4, whereupon the cylinder needles Will produce the same form of basic fabric T made up of the two simple plain fiat Webs, the cylinder needles forming needle wales 106, as seen at the left of Figs. 7 and 8, and the dial needles will pull in loops from the sinker wales of such basic fabric, each dial needle pulling alternately from one web and then from the other for producing a Wale 105. so that each dial needle wale is made up of first a loop of yarn from a sinker Wale 102 of one of the basic. webs and then a loop of yarn from a sinker wale 101 of the other basic web, whereby the fabric seen at the left of Figs. 7 and 8 is produced. Thus the knitting instruim-ntalities contemplated by the present improvement. and an embodiment of which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings. are designed to produce a single intc gfral 'thbri havingwithili its complete entity that which would have been two distinct flat webs formed for instance on the cylinder needles after a manner common in the art, but which distinct entity of such webs has been obliterated by the formation of a single inseparable fabric. each of the ribs of one face of which is made up of loops of yarn from a plurality of ribs on the other face.

When all dial needles are operating, one set of dial needles pulls from one basic web and then from the other. and then the second set of dial needles repeats this operation at different feeds. As there are in the two dial sets an equal number of needles to the total number of cylinder needles, there will be one dial needle wale produced for each cylinder needle wale. making a oneand-one ribbed fabric. the cylinder or outer face of which has alternate independent ribs, while each rib. on the inner or dial face of the fabric is a composite of twoyarns, ne

from one cylinder needle Wale and the other from another adjacent independent cylinder needle wale. Each dial needle Wale will contain the same number of loops as any one cylinder needle wale and of the same length. If yarn of one color is delivered from

feeds

21 and 22 and of another color from

feeds

23 and 24, the cylinder face of the fabric will display alternate stripes of two colors, while the two colors will appear in each stripe or needle wale on the inner or dial face. one loop of each dial needle wale being of one color and the next loop in the same wale being of the other color; thus alternating throughout the length of the wale, and giving to the back or dial face of the fabric a motley appearance. If four differently colored yarns are employed. each wale on the, cylinder face of the fabric will be formed of alternate loops of two colors, corresponding to the two respective. feeds, and each wale on the dial face of the fabric will present first a loop of a color of one cylinder needle wale and then a loop of a color of an adjacent independent cylinder needle wale. and alternating thus throughout the length of the dial wale, and the next adthe other color of the first cylinder needle wale and then a loop of the other color of the other or adjacent independent cylinder needle Wale, the motley stripes on the dial face of the fabric thus differing in color der face of the fabric.

As there are only one-half as many dial needles in one set as there are cylinder needles in the two cylinder sets, the elimination of one dial needle set from action with the elimination of its corresponding feeds, would, in producing the simpler form of fabric. cause each dial needle to pull in two loops for each single loop pulled in by any one cylinder needle. one of the dial. needle loops being pulled first from one feed and the next dial needle loop from the other feed, while each cylinder needle pulls in loops only from its own respective feed.

As a further exposition of the operation of the machine when producing the oneand-one fabric illustrated at the right of Figs. 7 and S, referring more particularly to Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings, it will be assumed that feed 21 is working with white yarn, feed 22 with black yarn, feed 23 with red yarn and feed 24 with blue yarn. Starting with feed 21, the white yarn will be taken by the long-cylinder needles and by the long dial needles, the two sets of needles pulling in opposite directions and forming a zigzag line of yarn between

feeds

21 and 22. At feed 22 the black yarn is pulled in opposite directions by the short cylinder needles and by the long dial needles, thelong dialneedles thus interjaccnt dial wale will present first a loop of effects from the motley stripes on the eylinall of the ribs of each appcaring, in the looping the white yarn with the black yarn as soon as feed 2? reaches the point of the first taking of white yarn. u'hcreat the long dial needles cast oil the loops of white yarn and hold loops of black yarn. At feed 23, at the beginning of a knitting operation, the red yarn is taken by the other or new set. of dial needles, that, is the short dial needles, and is taltcnliy the long cylinder needles, that is those needles carrying loops of while yarn from feed the long" cylindcr needles car-ting ff the white loops and iiiterloi'iping therewith the red yarn of feed 23. Going now to the. next feed, or feed 24. the same short dial needles will pull in loops from the blue yarn of feed 24 and cast off the loops of red yarn with which they have interloor 7, be blue, whereas the short cylinder needles taltc the blue yarn interlooping the same with the black yarn taken from fee and casting the loops of black yarn. ()f course, it is understood that in thus considering the operation, those sets of needles not referred to relative to a particular feed remain inactive and welt pending the arrival of the next feed. Thus at no point in the operation of the machine is there formed a section of fabric however small in which one of the basic webs is independent of the other, but at every point as soon as an interlooping of yarns occurs sutlicient to constitute a portion of fabric such interlooping destroys and eliminates the distinct entities of the basic webs and produces a resulting integral ribbed fabric having its existence as a ribbed fabric developed at the expense of the loss of the indc iiendence of such basic webs. After the taking of yarn from feed 24, the course or round f operation is complete, and the next round begins and repeats the one just specified. s

I am aware that it has heretofore been proposed to provide inslruz'nentalitics for knitting two independent webs to form a fabric, in one. instance one of the webs being ribbed and the other flat with the needle wales of the. flat web appearing in the spaces between the ribs oi the ribbed Web, and in the other instance the fabric being constituted of two independent webs each ribbed,

spaces between the ribs of the other Both of these fabrics however, are essentially distinguished by the maintenance of the distinct independence of the basic webs which are not connected other than by the interlocking resultant from the disposition of certain sinker wales of one Web relative to the needle wales of the other web. such that the webs may not be readily separated. Such fabrics, lunvever. being distinguished by the i indepeni'lcnco of the basic webs are n t to be confused with the fabrics which the pri-zsent improved knitting machine is del signed to produce, the product of such improved knitting machine being essentially an integral structure in which the basic Webs are absolutely dependent upon each other for the production and maintenance of the ribbed nature of the fabric, and such basic webs may not, therefore, by any possiblc mutilation of the fabric be separated from each other except by the destruction of the ribbed nature of the fabric Thus it becomes apparent that the independent webbed fabrics and machines for producing the same represent one type of development, while the present improvements involve a diametrically opposite type.

It will be perfectly obvious to those familiar with the art that the invention comprehends knitting instrumentalities capable of interlooping the connecting yarns between ncedle wales of two plain stitch webs into a wale on the opposite face from such needle wales, whereby a single integral fabric structure is produced possessing the characteristic of ribs, not formerly possessed, and deprived of the characteristic of independence of the webs; and such instrurnentalities may be developed in many embodiments susceptible of the production of widely varying fabrics, all clearly falling within the intent 51nd spirit of the invention.

Vi'hile throughout this description 1 have referred to the cylinder needles as being adapted to form the basic fabric of two llat webs, and the dial needles as drawing in the rib-making wales, it is obvious that the op eration may be performed conversely; that; is, the dial needles may be made to produce the basic fabric of two )lain, flat webs and the ribs be formed there 'rom by the cylinder needles.

Variations in the relative number of sets of needles in the two carriers may clearly be made within the spirit and scope of this invention, and to embody the invention particularly pointed out in some of the appended claims does not require that two sets of needles be provided in each carrier.

For the purposes of identity and facility of application of the terms of the appended claims to the elements of the particular embodiment herein disclosed, the cylinder may be considered the first needle carrier and the dial the second needle carrier, but this is not to be taken in any sens as a restriction of the scope of the claims which are intended to apply to such constructions Whether the same or a converse disposition of parts is employed.

The fabric produced by the in Venlion herein set forth is disclosed and claimed in my United Stateslietters Patrol .\'o. omens, granted March 1, [91.0.

What I claim is:--

l. In a. knitting machine, two needle carriers, two sets of needles in one carrier, two

' .of needles of the first mentioned carrier for for causing the needles of the second carrier 'tc successively take from the yarns of both sets of needles of the first carrier for interlooping said yarns alternately into needle wales.

9. In a knitting machine, a needle carrier, needles guided thereby, yarn feeds coopersting with the needles, cams for actuating said needles in setsfor causing certain of the needles to knit independent yarn from that knit by the other set, and a second needle carrier, needles therein designed to pull said yarns in an o posite direction, to the direction of pull 0 the needles of the first needle carrier, and means for actuating the needles of the second carrier twice for each actuation of any one. of the needles of the first mentioned carrier for causing the needles of the second carrier to successively takejhe" yarn of the feeds of the two sets interlooping said yarns into needle wales in alternation at the opposite face of the fabric from the face on which appears the needle Wales of the first needle carrier.

10. In a knitting machine two sets of needles, feeds therefor, means for cotiperatively actuating the needles and the feeds for causing the needles of one set to knit'yarn from one feed, and causing the needles of the other set to knit yarn from another feed, and a third set of needles, and means for actuating the third set of needles for causing the needles thereof to knit at said feeds at each and every course, each needle of the third set being disposed to operate in the space between a needle of the first and a needle of the second set so as to pull yarn first from one side of a needle of one set and then to pull yarn from the relatively other side of the adjacent needle of the other set.

11. In a knitting machine, two sets of needieafecds therefor, means for cooperatively actuating the needles and the feeds for causingthe needles of one set to knit yarn from one feed, and causing the needles of the other set to knit yarn from another feedyand a third set of needles disposed for pulling loops in a different direction from the needles of the first two sets for producing ribs, and means for actuatingthe third set of needles for causing the needles theref to knit at said feeds.

12. In a knitting machine, a needle carrier, two sets of needles therein, yarn feeds therefor, means for actuating said needles in sets for causing the needles of the respective sets to knit only from independent yarns, a second needle carrier, needles guided thereby, and means for actuating the needles of the last-metnioned carrier for drawing loops alternately from the independent yarns into the same needle wales at that face of the fabric opposite the face on which appears the needle Wales of'the needles of the first-mentioned carrier, the relative numbers and operations of the several needles being such that the total number of loops drawn to one face of the fabric is the same as that drawn to the other 'face thereof.

13. In a knitting machine, the combination of a cylinder, needles therefor, means for actuating said needles in alternating sets, means for feeding a plurality of yarns to each set, a dial, needles therefor, and means for actuating the dial needles in sets corresponding to the cylinder needle sets for knitting successively and alternately from the yarns fed to the cylinder needles, said actuating means imparting to each dial needle set a plurality of knitting operations in succession, while the other dial needle set remains inactive.

14. In a knitting machine, the combination of a cylinder, needles therefor, means for actuating said.needles in alternating sets, means for feeding a plurality of yarns independently to each set, a dial, needles therefor, and means for actuating said dial needles in alternate sets for causing one set of the dial needles to knit first from yarn from one set of cylinder needles and then to knit from yarn from the other set of cylinder needles successively, and causing the other set of dial needles to knit from another yarn from the first-mentioned set of cylinder needles and then to knit from another yarn from the other set of cylinder needles successively.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

BERNARD 'l STEBER.

lVitnesses OWEN F. LUKER, EDGAR M. KITCHIN.