Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts . 220 KNITTING 2. Needles placed in a circle.—Fig. 2533 represents the Bickford knitting machine. Fig. 2534exhibits the arrangement of needles, from which the operation will be best understood. Four of theneedles are here shown. The needle complete is represented at 1; a portion of the lower part of the others is broken away. The needle consistsof a body, an angular bent portion, a foot, ahook, and a latch. The last is pivoted to thebody of the needle, and works partly in a s
Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts . 220 KNITTING 2. Needles placed in a circle.—Fig. 2533 represents the Bickford knitting machine. Fig. 2534exhibits the arrangement of needles, from which the operation will be best understood. Four of theneedles are here shown. The needle complete is represented at 1; a portion of the lower part of the others is broken away. The needle consistsof a body, an angular bent portion, a foot, ahook, and a latch. The last is pivoted to thebody of the needle, and works partly in a slotformed in the body. The latch has moreovera spoon-shaped end, which whin the latch isclosed, as shown in needle No. 2, meets andpartly shuts over the point of the hook, so thatthe loop formed on the needle easily slips offwhen the latter makes its downward move-ment. Let the reader suppose one line ofstitches already formed on these needles, asshown in the engraving, and the thread oryarn to be knit so held that the needle marked1 will hook over it when the latter thread will be drawn down by the needleuntil th
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