Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 305
ded the --limx difficulty before ex] • Of 298 LOOM, CARPET-WEAVING. from a shaft or shafts below to the picker-staff and the apparatus for shifting the shuttle-boxes whichmust he attached to or connected with the shuttle-box frames that vibrate on axes above. By this improved arrangement the… … 10th. In introducing in power-looms a reversing motion. Before this, power-looms were simply pro-ruled with the means of disconnecting the motive power, and arresting the momentum of the movingparts to enable the attendant to piece the threads, or to do what might be necessary preparatory…
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