. Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering. LOOM, CARPET-WEAVING. 297 the harness, whereby the utmost nicety in the adjustment can be obtained, and at the same time, in con-nection with the separate organization, avoiding the necessity of adjusting the connections when it be-comes necessary to adjust the jacquard to the varying lengths of the cords of the harness, for thejacquard, having a separate organization, no change becomes necessary in its own 9th. In communicating the required motions to the picker-staffs and to the apparatus lor shifting
. Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering. LOOM, CARPET-WEAVING. 297 the harness, whereby the utmost nicety in the adjustment can be obtained, and at the same time, in con-nection with the separate organization, avoiding the necessity of adjusting the connections when it be-comes necessary to adjust the jacquard to the varying lengths of the cords of the harness, for thejacquard, having a separate organization, no change becomes necessary in its own 9th. In communicating the required motions to the picker-staffs and to the apparatus lor shifting theshuttle-boxes hung in pendulous frames at. the sides of and independent of the lathe, from a shaft orshafts above, whereby is avoided the serious difficulty before experienced of communicating tho motions 298 LOOM, CARPET-WEAVING. from a shaft or shafts below to the picker-staff and the apparatus for shifting the shuttle-boxes -whichmust be attached to or connected with the shuttle-box frames that vibrate on axes above. By this improved arrangement the motions are derived from a shaft or shafts coincident with or near to the axisof motion of the pendulous frames that carry the shuttle-boxes, instead of being below, where the frameshave the greatest motion.
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