Weaving. -- No. XV: The Jacquard Loom
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A two-page installment (No. XV) of a serial on weaving from the periodical Engineering, 18 December 1874, describing the Jacquard machine as used on hand looms for figured silk. It explains a 400-needle machine: the hooks, needles, springs, spring box, griffe, neck cords, card cylinder and the S-bar that moves the cylinder. Engineering drawings (Figs. 128-134) show elevation and sections of the mechanism.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- December 18, 1874
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
- Archive notes
- Reduced to 85% to fit on printed page.
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