US71039A

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Publication number: US71039A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1867-11-19
Anticipated expiration: 1884-11-19

Description

Y @niet mes @einer @new JOB MILLER, OF WARREN, RHODEI ISLAND. Letters Patent No. 71.039, datati November I9, 1867.

A l IMPROVEMENT IN KNITTING-MAGHINE NEEDLE.

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Be it known that I, Jon MILL-nn, of Warren, Bristol county, State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knitting-Needles; :md I do hereby declare thefollowing description and accompanying drawings are sufficient to enable lany person skilled in the art or science towhieh it most nearly appertains to make' and use my said invention or improvements without further invention or experiment.

The nature of my invention and improvements consists in a grooved knitting-needle, made or formed by bending or folding sheet metal to form a groovefor the stitch-caster to traverse'in, said groove being widest at the bottom, or dove-tailing, sons to hold in the stitch-caster, and allow it to traverse freely in the shank of the needle. In the accompanying drawings-l v Figure 1 is an elevation of n needle adapted to a knitting machine,

Figure Zis a plan, and

Figure 3 the caster. v

In these drawings, A is a. needle, made in the form shown, o1' in such other form as will answer the purpose, and provided with a pointed hook, B, `and its shank is'fnstened into the needle-carrier or stock C by soldering or otherwise, to adapt it to a knitting-machine. The carrier C has a. projection, D, at the rearend, by which it is traversed. This needle is made by taking a piece of thin flat wire o1' sheet metal, of a. proper width and thickness, and folding or bending it on a. former, that will leave the groove, when it is'bent` widest at the bottom, i

when the former is pulled out endwise, andthat part which is to be turned around to form the outer part of the hook may be folded quite together, and pointed, and bent around to form the hook, and, if necessary, it may he heated in order` to bend it. The caster E is made in the form and shape shown, or in such other form as will answer the purpose, and fitted to traverse in the groove of the needle, 'so that it will traverse freely to and from the point of the hook by the action ofthe loops of yarn or stitches; that is, it is pushed from the hook by the yarn to open the hook, so that the yarn may be fed or laid in the hook. When the stitch has carried the caster back a proper distance, it slips o ver it; and when the stitch moves towards the hook, it pushes the caster up to the hook, and then slips over both caster and hook, and a new loop pushes the caster back, and repeats the operation. The caster has a groove, F, in it, for the point of the hook B to make the yarn go over.

I claim a. knitting-machine needle, constructed of sheet metal, and formed as described, in combination with a. stitch-caster, constructed as described, to lit-*said needle, as land for the purpose set forth.

Jon MILLER.

Witnessesz HENRY H. LUTHER, WILLIAM B. LAWSON.