Tappet and dobby looms : their mechanism and management (1912)
Roberts, Thomas · Manchester [Greater Manchester] : Emmott & Co., Ltd. · leaf 120
horizontal plane abovethe box, hence the name over-pick. In single-boxlooms the picker may fit over the picking stick. In thiscase the stick moves ina groove cut throughthe box bottom, the ful-crum of the stick in thisinstance being below thebox, hence the name under-pick. Thistype of box yields… … Fig. to assist in checking theof box is applied to plainfast reed looms, fitted with a stop rod as warp pro-tector. In this instance a box swell is employed tooperate the stop rod. The swell projects some dis-tance into the box, and the swell spring being made verystrong by reason of the stop-rod…
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