Stopping Mechanism
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A short dictionary entry from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary defining a stopping mechanism as an automatic device that halts machinery when a thread breaks. It notes applications to looms (broken weft or empty shuttle) and spinning machinery, and describes Fig. 5900, a stop-mechanism for railway-heads of spinning machines that shifts the belt when the sliver thickness varies.
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- 1876
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- English
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