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 379
ength it is three times the width of the web, and hence its use islimited to very narrow weaving. The general operation of the rack-and-pinion loom is describedunder Kibbon-Weaving in Looms, Construction and Use of. Picking-Stick Plain Looms.—Fig. 2944 represents a light or fast-running plain loom… … the side frames which form the gable-ends. These are tied together front and back by girts. Infront is the breast-rail over which the fabric passes, and in rear is the back rail. This last is termedthe back rail when stationary or the whip-roll when it is movable; it serves to support the…
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