Labor-saving looms : a brief treatise on plain weaving and the recent improvements in that line, with special reference to the Northrup looms manufactured by Draper company, Hopedale, Mass., U. S. A. (1904)
Draper, George Otis, 1867-1923 · Milford, Mass. : Printed by Cook & sons · leaf 115
oving the lav by hand. It would be found by close examination, that the filling-brakes on the ordinary looms used in the ordinary mills, are notcontinuously operative; in fact, it is probable that the greatmajority do not act as they should. Our own brake has theadvantage of a positive screw… … BRAKE MECHANISM USED ON B MODEL LOOM. Some people say that the Draper loom is apt to make thin stripes,but from all I can hear, thin stripes are about as scarce as hens teeth.The Avork runs very well, and Jesse Barton, an IS loom weaver, says heran a loom seven hours and never stopped, only for…
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