Shuttle Operating Mechanism for Looms.
Description:
Patent for a new and improved shuttle-operator for looms. This design "has for its objects to provide novel, simple, and efficient mechanism for actuating the picking-sticks which effect the flight of the shuttles; to avoid the use of the ordinary lower picker-shaft; to avoid lateral angles in the picking-levers, which actuate the picking-sticks to throw the shuttles, and to otherwise improve the picking motion of looms for obtaining simplicity, strength, durability, power, and efficiency" (lin…
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Date:
October 21, 1890
Creator:
Fisher, Finis E.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department