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Labor-saving looms (1907)

Draper corporation. [from old catalog], Draper, George Otis, 1867-1923 · [Milford, Mass., Printed by Milford journal co.] · leaf 31

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The central shop shows w^here temples were regularly man-ufactured in Hopedale after acquiring an interest in the recipro-cating temple of Elihu and Warren W. Dutcher. The smallbuilding at the right was the early foundry for the Hopedaleindustries. The pond in front is now covered by Draper… … iVlthough by 1S30 power looms were widely used, they hadno filling stop-motion, requiring active oversight of the weaverto note when the filling broke or ran out. They had no auto-matic let-off motions and the take-ups were not of a positivecharacter, the whole machine being therefore ill adapted…

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