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SILK MANUFACTURE 



moment that one of these parallel threads happens to break. Instead of the swifts or 

 reels, a creel is here mounted for receiving the bobbins from the former machine, two 

 or three being placed in one line over each other, according as the threads are to be 

 doubled or trebled. Though this machine is in many respects like the engine, it has 

 some additional parts, -whereby the bobbins are set at rest, as above mentioned, when 

 one of the doubling-threads gets broken. 



Fig, 1775 is an end view, from which it will be perceived that the machine is, like 

 the preceding, a double one, with two working sides. 



Fig. 1776 is a front view of a considerable portion of the machine. 



Fig. 1777 shows part of a cross section, to explain minutely the mode of -winding 

 upon a single bobbin. 



Fig. 1779 is the plan of the parts shown in fig. 1777 ; these two figures being drawn 

 to double the scale of^s. 1775 and 1776. 



1775 



A, A., figs. 1775 and 1776, are the end frames, connected at their tops by a wooden 

 stretcher, or bar-beam, a, which extends through the whole length of the machine ; 

 this bar is shown also in figs. 1777 and 1779. 



1776 



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u, B, are the creels upon each side of the machine, or bobbin-bearers, resting upon 

 wooden heams or boards, made fast to the arms or brackets c, about the middle of the 

 frames A. 



