US500165A

US500165A - Spencer spooner

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Publication number: US500165A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-06-27
Anticipated expiration: 1910-06-27

Description

S. SPOONER.

Patented June 27, 1893.

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PROCESS 0I' MAKING WARE FABRICS POR GLOVES OR THE LIKE.

W/TNESSES @M M UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SPENCER SPOONER, OF BROOKLYN, YORIQASSIGNOR TO ABRAHAM. G, JENNINGS, ,OF SAME PLACE.

PROCESS OF MAKING WARP FABRICS FOR GLOVES 0R THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,165, dated June 2'7, 1893.

Application tiled August 29,1892.

T0 @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, SPENCER SPooNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in Kings county, State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Process of Making )Varp Fabrics for Gloves and the Like.

This invention relates to an improved process of making warp fabrics of two or more thicknesses in the same piece for use in gloves, stockings and like articles, wherein it is essential that some portions of the article be of greater thickness than its adjacent portions, and consists in series of steps hereinafter described and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a piece of fabric made in accordance with my improved process. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the relation of the strands one to the other and clearly illustrating my improved process.

My improved process is carried out on an ordinary warp machine used for making laces and jerseyfabrics whose nature is to be more or less elastic, and which is produced on such machines by linking or looping the threads together upon the needles, with the threads passing through the guides which traverse from right to left certain distances and lap on the needles; the threads always following to a certain extent the direction of the selvages of the fabric.

In my improved process, I employ two or more sets of threads (two being shown) as A, B, which are threaded through two or more sets of guides on as many separate guide bars, which guide-bars move from right to left in opposite directions and lap the threads on the needles in the usual Way in this character of machine, and which produces the ordinary jersey fabric as indicated at C in Fig. l of the drawings and the upper portion of Fig. 2.

N ow at certain intervals, or where it is de sired to make the article thicker (as indicated at D, Fig. l) for the 4purpose of wear, the guides as shown, of one guide bar tra-Verse one or more needles in excess of the number traversed in making the thinner portion of the fabric, and loop the needles that are adjacent to the guides'when the end of the traverse is reached; the length of each thread serai No. 444,360. (specimens.)

crsed by each thread without looping deter- 6o mining the thickness ofthe material. At the upper portion of Fig. 2 the five parallel rows of loops t', laf, gandj of the five strands A (and all of which are carried on one guide-bar, five being taken for illustration merely) traverse to the right two needles; laying loops f, g,j,land m in line 2. In line 3 the strands go back to the left and lay the strands t', h,f, g and j, as in line l, and so on.

Wheu'it is desired to make a thicker fabric or portion, the guide-bar, (as shown in the lower part of Fig. 2) is traversed two needles in excess of the number traversed in knitting the thinner portion (although evidently a different number in excess may be traversed), wherebj7 the loops n, 0,71, h, fare laid. It will be observed that while the threads are looped on different needles at different times, the same number of threads are always'looped at each movement of the guide-bar.

The straight lengths of the strandsbetween the lines of loops 1 and 2 (upper part of Fig. 2), as indicated by a b, show the length of threads to be oated on the surface in the thinner portion of the fabric, and the distance between such strands, indicate the laying of the warp. A comparison of these strands a b with the corresponding strands c CZ in the thicker portion of the fabric (lower part of Fig. 2) shows that the float-ed thread of the latter is almost twice the length of that made in the thinner knitted portion, while they (the warp) are laid about half as far apart.

It will be observed that the thread B is regularly looped as shown in the drawings.

By my invention I am enabled to make a large variety of thicknessesin the same piece of material without increasing or decreasing the number of threads.

Having described my invention, I claim- Ico n i Y f "homes The process herein described of making and looping the threads thus ,traversed or oar warp fabrics of varied thicknessesin the same ried to form a thicker knitted portion, sub- 1o piece, which consists in traversing a numbe stnntially as described. of threads each over one or more needles an 5 looping the threads to form a-comparatively SPENCER' SPOONER' thin knitted portion, traversing the seme Witnesses: threads each over one or more needles in ex- HARRYM. TURK, cess of those first traversed, forming a oat, OTTO SCHRENK.