American School (Chicago, Ill.), Nelson, H. William (Hector William), b. 1869 · Chicago : The School · leaf 23
k motion there will be poor selvedges, the threads breaking fre- quently; also more power is required to drive the shuttle across the lay, for on coarse cloths a large shuttle is necessary in order to hold a reasonable amount of filling. A very practical cam one-half dwell, is shown at Fig. 57, and… … Fig. 56. Plain Cam, '3 Dwell. also be changed to suit the different cloths that are made, and still further, a cloth can be made of which one side is softer than the other. The filling thus becomes more prominent on one side than the other. This is known as " cover" on cloth. A cloth with cover has…
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