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delivery shuttles.
Power looms which use
pirns generally have
automatic changing mechanisms which remove the
spent pirn from the
shuttle and
replaces it with...
- to hold the weft yarn. More
complicated shuttles incorporate bobbins or
pirns. In the
United States,
shuttles are
often made of wood from the flowering...
- At this
point the loom has
become automatic except for
refilling weft
pirns. The
Cartwight loom
weaver could work one loom at 120-130
picks per minute-...
- to exit from the end
rather than the side, and the
thread is
stored on a
pirn (a long, conical, one-ended, non-turning bobbin) to
allow it to feed more...
- the yarn on a
pirn.
These pirns are
automatically changed by the loom. Thus, the yarn
needs to be
wrapped onto a beam, and onto
pirns before weaving...
- Two end-feed
pirns and a side-feed
bobbin (bottom)
Simple closed, side-feed boat
shuttle with a
paper bobbin,
Mexico How the
conical pirn loads on an end-feed...
- cams 80–250
times a minute. When a
pirn is depleted, it is
ejected from the
shuttle and
replaced with the next
pirn held in a
battery attached to the loom...
- the
shuttle ran out of thread, Northrop's
mechanism ejected the
depleted pirn and
loaded a new full one
without stopping. A loom
operative could work 16...
- This multi-page
article lists pharmaceutical drugs alphabetically by name. Many
drugs have more than one name and, therefore, the same drug may be listed...
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weavers used
their mouths to pull
thread through the eye of a
shuttle when the
pirn was replaced. The same
shuttles were used by many weavers, and the practice...
