] 76 LOOM WORKED BY STEAM OR WATER. 



Enumeration 1 ne following are the advantages which my Loom pos- 



of its acbanta- sesses . 



ges. 



1. That from 300 to 400 of these looms may be worked 

 by one water-wheel, or steam-engine, all of which will weave 

 cloth, superior to what is done in the common way. 



2. That they will go at the rate of sixty shoots in a mi- 

 nute, or two yards of a nine hundred web in an hour. 



3. That they will keep regular time ill working, stop and 

 begin again, as quick as a stop watch. 



4. They will keep constantly going, except at the time of 

 shifting two shuttles, when the weft on the pirns is done. 



5. In general, no knots need to be tied, and never more 

 than one, in place of two, which are requisite, in the common 

 way, when a thread breaks. 



6\ In case the shuttle stops in the shed, the lay will not 

 come forward, and the loom will instantly stop working. 



7. They will weave proportionally slower, or quicker, ac- 

 cording to the breadth and quality of the web, which may be 

 the broadest now made. 



8. They may be mounted with a harness, or spot heddles, 

 to weave any pattern, twilled, striped, &c. 



p. There is but one close shed, the same in both breadths, 

 and the strain of the working has no effect on the yarn behind 

 the rods, 



10. The bore and temples always keep the same proper 

 distance. 



11. There is no time lost in looming, or cutting out the 

 cloth; but it is done while the loom is working, after the first 

 time. 



12. The weft is well-stretched, and exactly even to the 

 fabric required. 



13. Every piece of cloth is measured to a straw's breadth, 

 and marked where to be cut, at any given length. 



14. The loom will work backwards, in case of any acci- 

 dent, or of one or more shoots missing. 



15. Every thread is as regular on the yarn beam as in the 

 cloth, having no more than two threads in the runner. 



lo\ If a thread should appear too coarse or fine in the web, 

 it can be changed, or any stripe altered at pleasure. 



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