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 778
ial, and receives a thread-loop from a small horizontally swinging arm, which is supported by thearm or upper portion of the machine. When the needle descends, it carries a loop of thread throughthe loop last formed. The feeding of the work through the machine is effected by a lateral move-ment of… … 3864.
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