The art of weaving, by hand and by power, with an introductory account of its rise and progress in ancient and modern times . ars, for improvements on tem-ples, so as to render them more applicable to power loom weaving,by obviating the necessity of shifting them on the cloth, as is re-quired in hand loom weaving. The contrivance which has beenfound to answer this purpose best, particularly for stout textures, isthe American nipper or jaw temple.* Fig. 193, represents a plan view of the nipper or jaw-temple ;Fig. 194, a side or edge view; and Fig. 195, a detached part ofFig. 194, on an enlarge
The art of weaving, by hand and by power, with an introductory account of its rise and progress in ancient and modern times . ars, for improvements on tem-ples, so as to render them more applicable to power loom weaving,by obviating the necessity of shifting them on the cloth, as is re-quired in hand loom weaving. The contrivance which has beenfound to answer this purpose best, particularly for stout textures, isthe American nipper or jaw temple.* Fig. 193, represents a plan view of the nipper or jaw-temple ;Fig. 194, a side or edge view; and Fig. 195, a detached part ofFig. 194, on an enlarged scale. One of these nippers is to be fixed on the breast beam of theloom, at each selvage of the cloth, where it is acted upon by themotion of the lay, which opens the jaws or chaps of the nippers * The principle of this temple appears to be the same as that of the tem-ple used by E. K. Arphaxad, on his great vertical weaving engine, inventedmany thousand years ago. (See Introduction.) FANCY WEAVING. 411 every time the cloth is struck up, and permits the cloth to be shd-den forward towards the cloth roller. FiiT. ,.,i,;, ,ipi ,j ,| i ? ? iliirili|i -^ :.
Size: 2705px × 924px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, booksubjectweaving, bookyear1844
