24, 1894, the patentee was specifically interested in speeding the operation of the looping machine with the intermittently revolving dial. He accordingly provided his machine with easily removable dials of impaling pins, so that several operators might be engaged in placing the loops upon the impaling pins of separate dials while one was upon the looping machine. The patentee also conceived the idea that the machine might be operated at greater speed if the needle were passed beneath the loops and withdrawn while the dial was in motion rather than during the intervals between revolving motion. Bridges, however, considered it still essential that there be a pause in the motion of the dial at the time the looper hook passed adjacent the needle and made the stitch. Bythe ingenious use of a single cam and an arm bearing thereon Bridges gave to the pawl actuating the pin ring, and to the needle, the same lateral movement whereby the ring and the needle moved laterally together while the needle was making its forward or downward stroke, paused at or near the end of such stroke for the looper hook to operate, and resumed the joint or common lateral motion until the needle was withdrawn from the loops. Both needle and pawl then moved laterally in the opposite direction to the next pin and ratchet tooth, the dial remaining stationary, to repeat the operation. In the patent to Bridges we thus find the conception of moving the needle laterally during part of the stitch-forming operation and in