KNITTING MACHINE LEGARE No 47 with the apparatus for knitting ribbing.
This apparatus with the “Legare No 47” makes all desired ribbings perfectly. It is always furnished free with our knitting machine “Legare No 47”; its dial can contain 36 needles to work both with the cylinders of 54 and 72 needles, with all or some of the needles in the dial. With this apparatus you can make ribbing 1x1, that is to say one stitch on the top and one inside (k1, p1), or ribbing 2x1, 3x1, 4x1, etc. as thick and as tight as you wish, it allows you to make stockinette or ribbing.
THREADING THE MACHINE-Put a well filled bobbin under the back eye or one or the other of the short arms A or B. Pass the yarn through the eye C on the long arm then over the needle latch D and down, passing through the eye E and finally into the yarn carrier No.7408 passing from outside to inside. Pull a length of yarn, about a yard or more, through the eye of the yarn carrier and use this to set up the knitting.
SETTING UP THE WORK- Open all the latches of the needles lowering them, turn the crank and stop the yarn carrier No.7048 at point A or back of the machine, put the set up basket No.7144 into the cylinder, hold it there from underneath by the left hand, so that the ends of the hooks are about 1/8 inch below the top of the needle cylinder, hold the basket as level as possible. Begin casting on at point A going toward B-C-D, passing the yarn around each hook of the basket and of each corresponding needle on the cylinder. Be sure that each latch of the needles is open, or lowered. Carefully study the figure on page 5 and cross the yarn in the same way on the basket hooks and on the needles. When the knitting is set up to D, turn the crank and stop the yarn carrier at C, finish setting up to A and wrap the yarn a second time around the first needles which you had threaded at the beginning. After threading all the needles, wrap the yarn around the nut at the center of the bottom of the basket in order to hold the knit work down.
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