Cotton weaving: its development, principles, and practice . so duplicated at the opposite end of the lay, this obviatingthe necessity of always returning the shuttle to the boxwhence it had started before another could be used, andso enabling the weaver to insert a single pick, or any oddnumber of picks as might be required, with the samefacility as he had done two or any other even number THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PICKING MOTION. 227 before. From this was derived the modern pick-and-pick-loom, a loom little known in the cotton trade, but in exten-sive use in the woollen and worsted industries. I


Cotton weaving: its development, principles, and practice . so duplicated at the opposite end of the lay, this obviatingthe necessity of always returning the shuttle to the boxwhence it had started before another could be used, andso enabling the weaver to insert a single pick, or any oddnumber of picks as might be required, with the samefacility as he had done two or any other even number THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PICKING MOTION. 227 before. From this was derived the modern pick-and-pick-loom, a loom little known in the cotton trade, but in exten-sive use in the woollen and worsted industries. In fig. 142, a, is shown a front view of a hand-loom layfitted with three boxes, A A, at each end. These are connectedby cords to the horizontal levers, B, and from the oppositeends a connection is established with the finger lever sets of boxes being connected to this lever are elevatedsimultaneously when the lever, c, is pressed down. Theweaver operates the lay with his left hand, the right beingemployed to throw the shuttle. Placing his hand near. Fig. 142.—Hand-loom Lay with Drop-boxes. the centre of the lay cap, d, his thumb is in contact withthe end of the lever, c, or may be actually upon it. Whenthe requirement for a change of shuttle comes round hepresses down the lever, brings up the desired box withits shuttle, and maintains it there until another change ismade. This simply illustrates the principle of action em-bodied in the most highly developed box power-loom ofthe present day, as will be seen later on. It is not necessary to trace in minute detail the develop-ment of the picking capacity in connection with the hand-loom after having thus shown its origin and delineated itsprinciple. The great rival and successor of the hand-loom 228 COTTON WEAVING. was upon the doorstep as it were. Dr. Cartwright, theinventor of the power-loom, after, as he says, having in-vented his first loom and then condescended to go and seea hand-loom weaver at work, learnt a great


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