Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . lacingtheir loops on adjacent needles. The needle on theleft, at C, is receiving the thread within its hook,and it is subsequently moved by the cam-cylinderinto the positions shown to form the thread so takeninto a loop. When the heel is to be Iormed, a por-tion of the needles are drawn iiji, thus retainingtheir loops, and the number of needles left in actioncor
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . lacingtheir loops on adjacent needles. The needle on theleft, at C, is receiving the thread within its hook,and it is subsequently moved by the cam-cylinderinto the positions shown to form the thread so takeninto a loop. When the heel is to be Iormed, a por-tion of the needles are drawn iiji, thus retainingtheir loops, and the number of needles left in actioncorrespond with the wiilth of the heel to be cam-cylinder is now to be reciprocated in oppo-site directions, and in order to kee)i the thread-guidein advance of the descending needles sufficiently that the thread will be caught, pins are insertedill the bed-plate, and engage the heel of the thread-carrier, and stop it just before the cam-cylinder |)ed. Fig. 2770 is an example of w-hat is known as thesingle-needle machine. The loops are formed andheld on the teeth of a comb, which is moved along,one tooth at a time, by means of a rack on its rearside, whose teeth are engaged by a iin on a wheel c Fig. Bick/ord Knitting-Machine. iiW^^.i*- Hinckley^s Knitting-Machine. on one end of a shaft », that is driven by the mainwheel (T, one part of the fin being movable, .so thatit can be swung from siclc to side, to vary the direc-tion of the motion of the comb by a tri-armeil leverlocated in the wheel c, and which strikes one or theother of the movable stops (j. A single needle h, carrying the yarn, and a looper,are used, the former being shown in the cut as thiownup out of operation, for the purpose of being threaded. KNITTING-MACHINE. 1237 KNITTING-MACHINE. When ill o|UTation, it reciprocates in an arc under I B, Fig. 2771, shows a piece of ordinary knitted the comb, the slot in its .ictiiatinj; arm engaging | goods with loops distended. a ci-ank-pin on th
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