A practical treatise on weaving by hand and power looms : intended as a text book for manufacturers by hand and power looms, and power loom engineers and especially designed to forward the extension of machinery to all kinds of plain weaving (1846)
131 ON WEAVING BY POWER. a little longer than the breadth of the web, trans- versely on a frame, so as to slide, in the direction of the yarn, on two spindles, one supporting it at each end, and communicated the stroking motion to it, by which it brushes the yarn, from a crank. … Fig. 45. Side View of Dressing Machine, without the Framing. 222. But as the brushing is to be double, so as to act alternately on the upper and under sides of the warp, two brushes of course are used for that purpose, and placed on spindles in different planes, with their faces towards each other,…
Weaving · Looms
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