How To Build A Power Loom & Weave Fabric

This is a very rare set of instructions for the construction of a power-loom & instructions for Weaving.

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"A Practical Treatise on the Construction of The Power-Loom and the Art of Weaving all descriptions of texture produced by leaves of heddles.

Illustrated with diagrams and calculations and instructions for the production of cotton, woolen, linen and jute fabrics."

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Stephenson's remarks on the locomotive applicable to the power-loom Reasons of the slow development of the textile machinery The plan of the present volume Other explanations RELATIVE POSITION OF THE PRINCIPAL PARTS OF THE LOOM The warp line The warp line for open cloth The warp line for cloth where the threads require to be spread The strain on the yarn in weaving To reduce the strain to a minimum The height of the warp line How the front and back beams should be made movable The stretch of the yarn The movements of the lay The pauses of the crank as adapted to the requirements of the power-loom The pauses of the crank illustrated How the eccentricity of the lay's movements can be varied and adjusted The broader the loom the more eccentric its movements The length of stroke to be given to the lay The leverage of the swords The bevel of the lay The position of the rocking shaft The upright picking shaft the wiper shaft The momentum of the crank and wiper shaft wheels The end frame The strength of the loom SHEDDING The shedding movement the most important in the loom The most important points to be attended to in shedding The delineation of plain wipers The leverage of the treadles Plain wipers The length of pause necessary to spread the warp How the curves are obtained A defect in shedding; how to remedy it how the construction of the wipers affects the spreading of the warp Experience required to know the proper movement of the leaves Equalizing the sheds How the lease rods affect the size of the shed The action of the wipers as to time Shedding fine yarn not requiring to be spread A fallacy about shedding The movements of the heddle leaves for tweels, diapers, etc. The same as those for plain In tweels the greatest number of leaves should be up How the length of pause for the different sorts of wipers and tappets is found Power gained in shedding by multiplying the number of treads A star for a diaper explained The top mounting To equalize the leverage of the treadles Setting the treadles The clasps To find the number of teeth required in the wheel and pi ion to drive the wiper shaft Wheels necessary with a large number of treads To find any wheel in the train when the others are known The proof that they are correct Skewed bevel wheels; how they are made THE PICK General remarks The cone pick - an application of a lever of the first order The action of the picking wiper The direction of the force transmitted by the wiper The true secret of the harshness or smoothness of the pick The preceding statement illustrated The verification of the preceding statement How the direction of the force is regulated THe magnitude of the force How the proper magnitude may be obtained How the picking tappet is proportioned to different breadths of loom Th econstruction of the picking wiper, and the reasons for it Re-dressing the tappets - a mistake The race course of the shuttle The length of th eshuttle-box The reason that a loom with long shuttle-boxes generally works well The time of the pick in relation to the movements of the lay A suggestion to reduce the tear and wear in connection with the picking movement THE SHUTTLE PROTECTOR The automatic movement of the power-loom The action of the protector By reducing the momentum of the working parts of the loom, we reduce the force of the protector's stroke The wheels broken by the concussion of their teeth A cause of the swords breaking Where the protector should be fixed The length of the protector The twofold purpose of the protector Advantages obtained with the protector constructed on correct principles The fly reed THE TAKE-UP MOTION How it operates The drag and positive motions The fabrics for which the drag motion is best adapted, and the reasons The wheels of the positive motion Rule to find the number of teeth required to produce a given number of shots Explanation of the preceding example An example under other conditions To find the number of teeth when changing from one count to another THE PACE The tension of the yarn The uniformity of the tension The different methods of pacing An objectionable method of pacing HOW THE WINDING AFFECTS THE WEAVING The diameter of the pirn or cop The length of the pirn or cop The size and momentum of the shuttle

THE SPEED OF THE LOOM, DRIVING GEAR, ETC. What determines the speed at which the loom is to be driven To increase the speed of hessian looms Speed of broad looms Hints as to how to obtain a uniform speed of the looms in small factories The strength of the shafting The driving pulleys an example to be avoided of a bad construction of friction pulleys How the length of the belt affects the motion of the loom Examples showing the method of calculating the speed of wheels and shafting HOW TO START AND WORK THE LOOM The preceding chapters a counterpart of this A fixed line between the mechanical and tenting departments necessary A well considered plan necessary before putting down looms How the looms should be arranged to the driving shaft The looms grouped in fours How to arrange the looms in line with the shaft The line to which the ends of the looms are set How the looms are arranged to clear the belts Fixing the looms to the floor Levelling the loom Setting the loom How to set the wipers To find the proper length of picker strap How to set the pick The check-strap Gauging the shuttles The position the tip or point of the shuttle whould occupy The protector How to find the length of the belt and how it shoul drun How to adjust the pick as to strength The process of looming the web The position of the lease rods The reactionary nature of the loom The causes of "chapping off" classed under three heads When the power is insufficient When the power is deficient in the pick; how to find it out The effects of the picker strap being too tight Obstruction caused by the friction of the shuttle on the shed Obstructions that throw the shuttle out of the loom The protector TO FIND THE NUMBER OF SPLITS (DENTS) AND THE QUANTITY OF WARP AND WEFT IN A WEB Different scales used in different localities The yarn measures What is meant by thread Explanation of the cotton table Explanation of the woollen table Explanation of the linen yarn table Explanation of the coarse linen and jute yarns table How jute is called linen The various reed scales Number of threads in a split The various calculations for a cotton web Rule to find the number of splits To find the quantity of weft The various calculations for a woollen web To find the number of splits To find the warp To find the weft The various calculations for a linen web To find the number of splits To find the warp To find the weft The various calculations for a jute web Another method of calculating the shrinkage on the breadth The number of splits The amount of warp The amount of weft Rules to find the splits and warp and weft by proportion THE PREPARATION OF THE YARN FOR THE LOOM General remarks How dressing or sizing is necessary The effect of dressing on the thread How the flour starch is made and used Farina as dressing Dressing for woollen yarns How the dressing is put on DRying the yarn Sizing The preparation yarn requires previous to being dressed Weft that requires to be dressed DRAUGHTS AND TREADING How the patterns are made Setting the heddles Rules for finding the heddles to be set Examples when the number will divide without a remainder When there is an odd half hundred When the number to be set will not measure exactly either the camb or the reed An easy method Draughts and treading of a plain web The distinction between plain and tweeled cloth Draughts and treading of a three-leaf tweel Of a four and five-leaf The broken tweel The full satin tweel The herring-bone tweel The method of working the leaves that is easiest for the yarn The serge tweel Ornamental tweels Diaper The junction of plain and tweeled cloth Diced work Two and three-ply cloth and two and three-fold cloth and tubular cloth wrought on the same principle Tubular weaving Two-fold weaving Three-fold weaving Two and three-fold and tubular tweels Two and three-ply cloth To construct and arrange the wipers or tappets when the treading is known The centre selvage explained