Der Webmeister für mechanische Weberei, II. Teil: Die schmalen Wechselstühle [The Weaving Overseer for Mechanical Weaving, Part II: The Narrow Multi-Shuttle Looms]
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Part II of Franz Kraus's German textbook for loom overseers in mechanical weaving, covering narrow multi-shuttle looms (Wechselstühle). It describes drop-box (Hubkasten) and revolver box-motion mechanisms by system (Hacking, Eccles, Hodgson, Knowles, Honegger, Hohlbaum), with line diagrams. It explains how to set up shuttle change orders and build pattern cards from weft patterns, lists causes of faulty cloth and loom breakdowns, and closes with a section on mechanics and calculations (levers, wedges, screws, belt and gear drives) and the overseer's tools.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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