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 380
by a selvagethread, which is passed through the loop by a shuttle motion similar to that on a sewing machine.The advantages claimed for this loom are : much higher speed, from the light weight of the needleand weft to be moved at each pick, as compared with any shuttle; less chafing and abrasion of… … 366 LOOMS, POWER. operated by cams at D, and is of course capable of the variations which can be given to any loom, the novelty being in the application of the weft motion. The Ltall Positive-Motion Loom, manufactured by Messrs. J. & W. Lyall of New York, is a recent and very valuable…
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