Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 496
r, which finger retains it until the looper conveysthe thread around the needle. The needle then draws the thread through the sole and weltoutward, and, as the machine feeds again, the needle starts forward to make another stitch,and the take-up then begins to draw in the slack thread as the needle… … Fig. 1.—McKay lasting-machine. device the pull of the tension is directed inward toward the last, avoiding thereby the strainin the between-substance, which occurs whenever the stitch is set by the needle, as was the 476 LEATHER-WORKING MACHINERY. case in the old machines. This machine may be used…
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