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 ... (1846)
White, George · Glasgow : John Niven ; New York : D. Appleton & Co. · leaf 42
endered it three times more productive than it wasbefore. This was the invention of the fly-shuttle. 19. This great invention, for which we are in-debted to Mr John Key, an ingenious weaver, anative of Bury, in Lancashire, consists merely inadding to the sole of the lathe on each side or enda small… … Fig. 12. Fly Shuttle Lathe. 1= —&- Fig. 13. Section of Plan of do. section of the plan in Fig, 13th. There is then a bitof wood called the driver or picker, variously made,as represented in Figs. 14, 15, 16, and 17, fitted toslide on the spindle in each box ; and to keep it steady 32 PRACTICAL…
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