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 776
oop stitch, which was patented by Mr. J. E. A. Gibbs, and in the automatic tension devisedby Mr. Charles H. Willcox. In the stitch mechanism, a rotating hook causes the relations of thethreads on each side to become changed toward each other. The different parts of the hook areshown in Fig. 3852,… … ed to the lowest point, carrying down the thread, has just begun to ascend; and a loop is thrown offon the back side of the needle just in time for the point of the hook to enter it. As the needle rises,the hook, moving in the direction of the arrow, passes into the loop, drawing it down and…
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