Identifier: artofweavingbyha00gilr (find matches)
Title: The art of weaving, by hand and by power, with an introductory account of its rise and progress in ancient and modern times
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: Gilroy, Clinton G
Subjects: Weaving
Publisher: New York, Baldwin
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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e cloth, the roller q, is pushed back, carrying along with itthe rodp^, and weight/?^, thereby lessening the tension on the warp-beam, as the roll diminishes ; on taking a cut from the clotliroller the rod p^, is lengthened by means of the coupling at jt?%(Fig. 220) so as to retain the weight in the same position when thecloth is taken from the roller; the cloth is regularly drawn forwardas it is woven, by means of the take-up rollers, connected as abovedescribed, with the cam shaft; the cloth is wound on the clothroller e, with any required degree of tension, as fast as it is deliver-ed from the take-up rollers d rf, by means of the band or belt e^, andtightening or friction pulley e, the revolutions of this roller beingregulated by the quantity of cloth given out. On the driving shaftr, (Fig. 221) is placed an eccentric 6, surrounded by a collar towhich an inflexible rod b^, is attached, having a governing screwb* (Fig. 218) to regulate its length ; the upper end of this rod is 218.
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y^^r. 219. Fin: 224. Hb:226

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