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Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)

D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 140

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stroke of the layafter shedding the warp and lowering the press B, an element or point in the pattern is completed. The following card, brought round by a quarter revolution of the axis, finds all the needles In theirfirst position, lifts another series of warp threads; and thus in succession for… … his colored shuttle yarns, which would so far disfigure the pattern, he must undo his work. For thispurpose, he makes use of the lower hooked lever J\ whose purpose is to make the chain of the card gobackwards, while working the loom as usual, withdrawing at each stroke the shot both of the ground…

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