A practical treatise on the construction of the power-loom and the art of weaving : all descriptions of texture produced by leaves of heddles : illustrated with diagrams, with calculations and instructions for the production of cotton, woollen, linen, and jute fabrics : intended as a textbook for those engaged in the trade (1887)
Brown, Alex (Alexander) · Dundee : James P. Mathew & Co. ; London : Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. · leaf 63
59 THE SHUTTLE PROTECTOR. but, of course, the intensity of the stroke has as much to do with the breaking of the swords as this. Where the protector should be fixed. — The protector is frequently fixed in a bracket attached to the lay. Nothing could be worse for the loom than this, es- pecially if… … and the repeated strokes sever the fibres of the wood of which it is made. When the lay gets distorted in this way, the shuttle is interrupted in its passage across the loom, and causes a very harsh movement. The protector should be fixed to the swords below the lay, in some such manner as shown at…
Looms · Weaving
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