Repobts OF Judges. 103 



as the cylinders were not clothed, or furnished with power. The 

 machine is well made. 



No. 225. Self Stripping Cotton Cards. (George Wellman.) A 

 simple automatic movement raises every other one of the series of 

 top cards, strips it, and returns it to place; when, by an automatic 

 reverse movement, the other alternate top cards are in like manner 

 raised, stripped and returned to place. 



The device is simple and effectual, and the machine is well made. 

 We commend it to first honors. 



No. 265. Linen Loom. (Whiteside Brothers.) We arc of 

 opinion that this loom is well made. Its motions for changing the 

 warp are simple and positive; by a series of cams every variety 

 of diaper work can be produced. This loom is an advance upon 

 those heretofore made, and we therefore respectfully ask for an 

 award of a class commensurate with its merits. 



No. 5 74. Loom for Weaving Narrow Fabrics. (L. J. Knowles & 

 Brother.) Its merits are: 1. Great compactness in design, and very 

 great ingenuity in the various movements necessary to accomplish 

 difficult results. 2. The movements are all positive. The devices for 

 throwing up the warp to form the various surfaces and figures, for 

 holding the warp tightly during the moment of passing the shuttle, 

 and more tightly still at the point of beating up, the laying in of the 

 filling in such a manner that a firm, smooth selvedge is necessarily 

 produced, are among the most ingenious in the whole range of 

 mechanism. And when the loom is seen in operation, weaving, at 

 the same time, the narrowest tape, the stouter coach lace or trim- 

 mings, the elastic and non-elastic suspender webbing, it is a con- 

 vincing proof of American mechanical skill, and perseverance in 

 overcoming great difliculties. Any one who doubts has only to 

 witness the operation of the old German tape loom, which, till 

 within a recent period, was the only one used in this branch of man- 

 ufacture. We cannot too highly commend this machine to your 

 notice and consideration as entitled to the first honors of the Insti- 

 tute. 



No. 575. Woolen Loom, (L. J. Knowles & Brother.) This 

 loom is adapted to that class of goods where it is desirable to 

 throw the coarser stock on the under side 'of the cloth and the 

 finer upon the upper surface, or for weaving fabrics where colors 

 alternate. The movements to produce this automatically and 

 unerringly are beautiful specimens of ingenuity. The mechanism 

 for changing the shuttles, the take up and let off motions of the 



