Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 369
as intended for the use of one shuttle only; but itwas afterward found that if two or more shuttles could be used on the same principle, it would beof great advantage. This was effected about the year 1760 by Robert Kay, the son of the inventorof the fly-shuttle, who invented the drop-box for that… … to describe a three-shuttle drop-box, for it comprises the principles of both the others. Fig. 2906shows a front view of a batten fitted with boxes a a. Fig. 2907 is an elevation of one box on alarge scale, and Fig. 2908 is a section of it at the line BB. The drop-box consists simply of asmall…
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