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56 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION,\ 1876. relation to the beards of the needles should a thread break, the move ment of the presser preventing the beards from being pressed; and consequently the work was retained on the needles, notwithstanding the thread was broken. Aside from this last feature, the machine was very old. Dana Bickford Knitting-Machine, New York, N. Y. A circular machine, having a ring provided with needle-operating cams. The cam-ring was adapted to be operated by hand contin uously in one direction to knit a tubular web, or to be reciprocated less than a revolution in opposite directions to produce a flat web. By alternately depressing the needles at each end of the series used when the cam-ring was reciprocated, a narrowed portion could be formed for one portion of a heel or toe, and then by gradually return ing such needles to operative position, a widened counterpart to the narrowed portion could be produced to complete a heel or toe. The machine was well adapted to knit woolen stockings, and by removing a portion of the needles and changing the loops laterally from some to other needles, ornamental stitches could be produced in circular and flat webs. The Bickford patents are numbered 68,595, 80,121, 92,146, 84,472, 131,386, 131,387, 132,382, 136,639, 162,886, 168,216, and reissues Nos. 6423 and 6424. Franz & Pope Knitting-Machine Co., Bucyrus, Ohio. A hand-operated circular machine adapted to be rotated as it' was desired to produce tubular work, or to be reciprocated to fashion the heel or toe of a stocking by widening and narrowing as above de scribed, with reference to the Bickford machine. The Franz & Pope machine differed from the Bickford machine, on which it was an improvement, chiefly in the construction of the cams for operating the needles, they being simpler than in the Bick ford. The two machines operated equally well. The Franz & Pope was the simpler of the two. Patents owned by this company are numbered 61,608, 69,775, 69.776,73,697. 88,027, 91,214,91,215,99,425,99,426,102,529,105,187, and 123,687. Hawley & Branson Circular Knitting-Machine, Chicago, III. This machine was manufactured under patents to Mr. Branson, of June 18, 1872, and March 31, 1874. The cam-cylinder had a stitch- cam and two pivoted needle-elevating-cams, and the machine could