LOOM WORKED BY STEAM OR WATER. . |% \"jfj 



17. They will weave the finest yarn, more tenderly, and 

 regularly, than any weaver can do with his hands and feet. 



IS. When a thread either of warp or weft breaks in if, 

 the loom will instantly stop, without stopping any other loom, 

 and will give warning by the ringing of a bell. 



19. A loom of this kind occupies only the same space as 

 a common loom ; the expense of it will be about half more; 

 but this additional expense is more than compensated by the 

 various additional machinery, employed for preparing the 

 yarn for the common loom, and which my loom renders en- 

 tirely unnecessary. 



20. The reeling, winding, warping, beaming, looming, 

 combing, dressing, fanning, greasing, drawing bores, shifting 

 heddles, rods, and temples, which is nearly one half of the 

 weaver's work, together with the general waste accompanying 

 them, which is about six per cent of the value of the yarn, 

 and all which occur in the operations of the common loom, 

 do not happen with my loom, which, by its single motion, 

 without further trouble, performs every operation after the 

 spinning, till the making of the cloth is accomplished ; by 

 which, independent of the saving of the waste, the expense in- 

 curred for reeling, warping, winding, &c. is saved, amount- 

 ing to above twenty per cent of the yarn. 



21. The heddles, reed, and brushes, will wear longer than 

 usual, from the regularity of their motion. 



22. More than one half of workmanship will be saved : 

 one weaver and a boy being quite sufficient to manage five 

 looms of coarse work, and three or four in fine work. 



These advantages, which from experience my weaving-loom 

 has been found to possess, and which upon inspection will be 

 perceived, will, I presume, be esteemed of some magnitude. 

 My loom, as now constructed and improved, is much sim- 

 plified, so that the manual labour requisite is trifling; and if 

 it is encouraged by the Society of Arts, I am sensible much 

 advantage will arise from their approbation, and the publicity 

 it will in consequence receive. 



I am, Sir, 

 Your humble servant, 



JOHN AUSTIN. 



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