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14 Higgins & Sons, King Street, Salford —Manufacturers and part Inventors.
Cotton machinery:—Patent roving frame of 72 spindles;double self-acting radial mule, 600 spindles.
Long-line flax machinery :—First drawing frame, foul-bosses ; second, 4 heads, 4 bosses each; patent rovingframe, 6 heads, 60 spindles; spinning frame, 144 spindles.
15 Sharp Brothers, Manchester —Inventors.Danforth throstle, for spinning.
16 Mather, W.&C., Salford Iron Works— Manufacturers.Calico-printing machine, for printing eight colours at
one operation, with drying apparatus. Sewing machine,and patent pistons.
17 Saxon, Abel, Manchester —Manufacturer.Metallic bobbins.
18 Harrison, J., Bank Foundry, Blackburn —Manufacturer.
Power-loom adapted for fabrics of light materials, incotton, wool, and flax, and not more than 18 or 20“ picks” or “ shots” of weft in a quarter of an inch; andfor “ tweelled” goods up to four leaves.
Power-loom, adapted for heavy and tweelled goods.Power-loom, made 50 or 60 years ago. These looms arerepresented in the engravings below.
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19 Gibson & Co., Glasgow — Manufacturers.Case containing specimens of shuttles.
20 Hornby & Kenworthy, Blackburn —Inventorsand Manufacturers.
Patent sizing or dressing machine, with a peculiar ar-rangement for laying out the yarn in the form of a “ sheet,”“ tape,” or “ beers,” for “ leasing,” “boiling,” “ drying,”“ registering,” and “ beaming.”
Model of patent warping-macliine, with a self-actingbacking-off motion. This series of models, together witha model of the loom named below, is represented in theengraving on the next page.
21 Bgllough, J., Blackburn —Inventor andManufacturer.
Model of patent power-loom : which stops the motionwhen the weft thread breaks ; it has a self-acting temple,and it coils the taking-up motion.
22 Smith, Mark, Heywood, near Manchester —Inventor and Maker.
Loom for weaving naval canvas, Dutch and Venetiancarpets, and applying the rising-box motion to Scotch andKidderminster carpets. The speed of this loom is 120 picksper minute; it drives a shuttle that will weave a yard ofcloth from one bobbin.
Loom for weaving strong fustians, strong ticks, linen,
damask, and woollen cloths, on the same principle, withthe addition of self-acting temples. It weaves 5 lb. No. 2cotton weft, or 100 hanks in ten hours ; and works safelyat 200 picks per minute.
Loom with rising and falling box motion for weavingplaids, checks, ginghams, fancy drills, quiltings, andcalicoes.
Loom for weaving silks, fitted up for plain cloths, but.applicable to satins and figured work by attaching thenecessary cams or tapets, or the Jacquard machine.
Working model, comprising most of the motions of theselooms.
23 Taylor & Son, Halifax —Manufacturers.
A large Jacquard loom, exhibited in the operation ofweaving worsted damask goods. (See engraving, page272.)
[This vast machine, with its array of cards, and con-fusing lines of harness, furnishes a striking example ofa loom constructed on the principle discovered byJacquard.]
24 Macindoe, George Park, Glasgow— Inventor and
Patentee. . .
Self-acting mule for spinning eotlon wool into yam, vrit 1oscillating or vibrating lever for taking in or putting up thecarriage, and a mode of putting down the faller from anyof the twist pulleys by centrifugal disengaging catches.