Cyclopedia of textile work - a general reference library on cotton, woolen and worsted yarn manufacture, weaving, designing, chemistry and dyeing, finishing, knitting, and allied subjects (1911) (14596072049)

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Title: Cyclopedia of textile work : a general reference library on cotton, woolen and worsted yarn manufacture, weaving, designing, chemistry and dyeing, finishing, knitting, and allied subjects
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American School (Lansing, Ill.)
Subjects: Textile fabrics Textile industry
Publisher: Chicago : American school of correspondence
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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with the projection 7Z° which, when the cam ring isrotated and also by reason of the inclined portions of the cylinder bot-tom, allows the cylinder to descend by gravity, thus shortening thestitch and reducing at the desired place the size of the stocking. Aguide blockr^ (See also Fig. 136), which is fastened in the cylinderguide and extends into the vertical slot, r°, in the cylinder, serves toguide the needle cylinder in its vertical movement and to prevent itfrom turning. The upper end of the needle cylinder a- is made broader or thick- 234
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KNITTING 217 er by the addition of the ring a to its interior. The ring is fastenedto the cylinder with a screw 4 and has a projecting ledge a? whichsupports the jack support-ring a?, which is in turn secured to thecylinder by means of the screw 5. The jack supporting ring is slottedon the top edge to form a support for the outer ends of the jacks a^^,and similar grooves are provided in the upper end of the part a^ of theneedle cylinder, for the inner ends of the jack. Each jack is madewith a projection a^ to enter the annular groove in the ring a, whichis movably mounted to rotate on the jack supporting ring a^. It isthe function of the jack ring a, with its cam shaped groove, to oper-ate the jacks and withdraw their fingers a** out of the paths of theneedles when a stitch is being formed. 6 o5