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"To the upper part of the rod h, two small pieces or fingers n, n, are firmly fixed by screws; which fingers, as the rod h, slides along, are intended to act alternately.. upon one of the apparatus, which I' call the depressors 0, 0 These depressors each consist of a straight barat top, supported by vertical pins set in the under side of the bar, and passed through sockets p, p, fixed to the stationary rail i. The bar o, is kept in its elevated position, as seen toward the left hand in fig. 1, by slight springs acting under it, but is depressed as shown toward the right hand in the said figure, by the finger n, passing over it. It will be observed that the outer end of each bar o, is bent downward, forming a small inclined plane at q. This inclined plane enables the finger n, as it moves along, to mount up to the top surface of the bar o, and by so doing, to depress the bar o, as shown toward the right hand of fig. 1. At the ends of the bars o, o, pendant arms r, r, are affixed, the lower parts of which act upon brackets s, s, connected to the rocking frame d, d. Hence, as the finger n, slides along the bar o, it depresses that bar, and causes it, by means of the arms r, r, depressing the brackets s, s, to move the rocking frame into the position shown at fig. 3, and thereby raise the thread carriers a, a, a, above the bearded needles B. The progress of the bar h, sliding along the rail i, as before described, causes the thread carriers a, a, a, to bring the threads over the upper parts of the series of bearded needles; and when the finger n, has passed to the end of the slider plate on the bar o, it slips off the bar, and allows the depressor immediately to rise, which releases the rocking frame d; when the bent arm 7, falls from the driver, and the

thread bcarriers drop down between the needles, thus limiting the extent or breadth to which the work is to be produced upon the needles. In order to prevent the bar, with the thread carriers, from accidentally passing on too far by the momentum when the machinery is in rapid action, stops are placed at t, t, upon the rocking frame, which are formed by sliding bolts adjustable to the required breadth of the work; and these are held fast in their positions, each by a spring lever n, a tooth in the end of which falls into a rack on the upper side of the stop bolt. And, further, there is another safety stop or catch 1, jointed on the end of the bar b, its longer end bearing upon the fixed rod 2, attached to the framing; the lower end of this catch has a tooth or ratchet, which takes into the teeth or notches on the piece 3, attached to the rocking frame d; this catch keeps the barb, from rebounding after it has passed across the frame, the tooth of the catch slipping into the notches.

"On the return of the sliding bar h, the other finger n, acts in a similar way upon the left hand depressor, raising the thread guides a, as before, and carrying them to the required extent over the needles, and then letting them fall as described in the former instance.

"In order to produce the narrowings, that is, to reduce the width of the work, the length of the slider plate on the upper surface of the bar o, must be made capable of contraction. This I effect by sliding it in a groove in the upper side of the bar o, as shown at v, v, in fig. 2. Having slidden the plate v, to the extent corresponding with the intended width of the work, I make the slide fast in that situatien by a spring lever w, which has a tooth or catch dropping into one of the notches of the rack on the edge of the bar o; and when I wish to narrow the work, I slide the plate , with its catch

lever, one or more notches backward, in order that the finger n, may escape from the bar earlier, and drop the thread carrier one or more needles short of the preceding course. I will here observe, that in order to allow the fingers n, to slide under the bars o, on their return, each inclined plane q, is formed by a small jointed flap, which rises as the finger passes under it,

Having, by a succession of operations, produced certain lengths of work, say the lengths of the legs of stockings down to the ankles, it will then be necessary to separate the continuation of each of these pieces of work into distinct portions, with selvages, for the formation of the insteps and the two parts of the heels. This I effect by the introduction of two additional horizontal sliding rods b 1, and b 2, each having thread carriers a 1, and a 2, affixed to them; and these I mount in the machine, and act upon them in the way before described in reference to the sliding rod b, in figs. 1, 2, and 3.

"Fig. 5, represents a horizontal view of the top part of the rocking frame, with the first described sliding rod b, and its thread carriers a, a, a, mounted thereon, and also the additional sliding rods b 1, and b 2, with their thread carriers a 1, a 1, a 1, and a 2, a 2, a 2, connected to the rocking frame by hooked bearings x, x, x, and guide pins y, y, see fig. 1, the rod b 2, being confined in its situation by a clasp lever fixed at the left end of the rod. In this case, a T-head or transverse piece is fixed on the end of the driver k, as shown, by dots, in fig. 2, for the purpose of striking against the bent arm 1, as the rod h, moves along the bar i; and there are adjustable sliding stop bolts u 1, and u 2, for regulating the extent of action of these additional rods b 1, and b 2.

"These additional parts of the apparatus being at

tached and adjusted to the required widths of the insteps and heel parts, the machine is put in motion as before, when, by the sliding of the rod h, the thread carrier a, with the rod b, will be first moved along for producing the insteps; and, when advanced a proper distance, the bent arm, will come in contact with stops on the rods b 1, and b 2, and the three rods will then all move together, conducting the thread carriers over the several series of needles. As, however, the distances are considerably reduced which the thread carriers have now to travel in making these narrow breadths, the fingers n, are not to be passed along the whole extent of the bars o, o, therefore, by sliding the adjustable plates v, v, a recess in the edge of each plate will be brought opposite to a recess %, in each of the bars o, which will allow the finger n, to fall through when it arrives there, and, by that means, suspend the operation.

"In order to make or work the feet of stockings, which have been produced by the means above de scribed, I remove one of the sliding rods (b 2,) and lock together the other two sliding rods b, and b 1, and having attached six stocking pieces to the bearded needles, in the ordinary way, I am enabled to produce the footing to these six stockings at one operation, by the same means or mode of working the machinery as that described in forming the legs and feet.

Lastly, I wish it to be understood that I lay no claim to any part of the construction or mode of working the stocking frame for the production of several pieces of stocking goods in one machine; but I claim as my invention, and as the subject of the improvements secured to me under the above recited Letters Patent, the mechanism to be attached to a stocking frame for conducting the threads by machinery instead of throw

ing them by hand, consisting of the thread carriers attached to sliding rods with suitable stops and adjustable pieces for regulating and determining the extent of their movements in connexion with the necessary mechanism for actuating the same."-[ Inrolled in the Rolls Chapel Office, February, 1837.]

Specification drawn by Messrs. Newton and Berry.

To JOHN YOUNG, of Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford, patent locksmith, for his invention of certain improvements in the making or manufacturing of metal hinges for doors, and other purposes.-[Sealed 7th June, 1836.]

THIS invention of certain improvements in the making or manufacturing of metal hinges for doors, and other purposes, has for its object the making or producing of metal hinges with solid knuckle or hinge joints, out of peculiar formed or shaped strips or lengths of rolled, drawn, or swaged malleable iron, or brass, copper, or such other metal, or mixture of metals; such improved hinges, with solid knuckle joints, being stronger and neater, and, in my opinion, much more preferable than those in which a part of the metal is turned over or coiled around a centre pin, or mandril, in order to form the knuckle or hinge joint, and consists in forming such metal hinges from out of strips or lengths of metal rolled, drawn, or swaged into peculiar shapes for forming such hinges: that is, with a rib or ribs projecting therefrom, intended to form the knuckle, or hinge joint, and which strips or lengths of metal are afterwards cut up or severed by means of proper shaped tools, cutters, or