Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Warpjng~MiU^ ^yinding•Machinrf and Poh connected. On the same shaft is the scroll-cam iv,in which traverses a roller imparting a vibratory Fig. 3001. motion to the lay, Looms for Domestic Cottons and for Linens in which is a raceway for the Fig. 3000 is a view of a iimrping-viachine, wivdinrf. ma-cJiinr, and a loom forlight and medinm cott
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Warpjng~MiU^ ^yinding•Machinrf and Poh connected. On the same shaft is the scroll-cam iv,in which traverses a roller imparting a vibratory Fig. 3001. motion to the lay, Looms for Domestic Cottons and for Linens in which is a raceway for the Fig. 3000 is a view of a iimrping-viachine, wivdinrf. ma-cJiinr, and a loom forlight and medinm cottongoods. Fig. 3001 is a perspec-tive view of two looms,one for domestics andheavy cotton goods, theother, on the right of thepictuie, for linens. With the modern pow-er-loom, the cost at Man-chester of weaving a pieceof cotton cloth 25 incheswide, 29 yanls long, and11 picks per J inch, isestimated at lOJ person can attend LOOM. 1356 LOOM. to two or tliiee looms, and each loom produces 26pieces of such cloth per day. On the old liaiid-looiii of 1800, one man wouldattend to one loom, and would produce 4 pieces atan expense of tJti cents each. In plain cloths the warp and welt threads are ofabout eipuil fineness. Yarns of two ditterent sizesintroduced into tlie web produce a sort of striping;.When the warp and weft threads are of ditferentcolors a shot pattern is produced. Striped patterns are f
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