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Model of power loom with double shuttle box (scale 1:2)

1840

Model (scale 1:2) in iron of steam power loom, with tappet motion with spool of yarn and material in process, patentee Bennet Woodcroft, England, c. 1838.

Model (scale 1:2) of steam power loom

1833-1843

Brass model of power loom (scale 1:4) with improved tappet plates, patentee Bennet Woodcroft, England, 1870-1880.

Brass model of power loom (scale 1:4) with improved tappet plates

1870-1880

Model of a power loom of c. 1860, with belt-driven shuttle, scale 1:6, patented by S. C. Salisbury in 1860.

Model of a power loom of c. 1860

circa 1860

Power loom manufactured by J. Harrison and Son, Blackburn, England and fitted with the loose reed emergency stop mechanism of 1842. Exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and subsequently modified by the makers with design changes up to 1858.

Power loom manufactured by J. Harrison and Son

1842-1858

Prototype linear motor shuttle propulsion system 1975

Prototype linear motor shuttle propulsion system

1975

Model of power loom invented by George White (scale 1:3), United Kingdom, c. 1829.

Model of power loom invented by George White (scale 1:3)

c.1829

Model of power loom with improvements, patentee W. E. Taylor, 1860, and as exhibited at the International Exhibition, London, 1862.

Model of power loom with improvements

1860-1862

Model on a reduced scale of the first Vaucanson loom of 1745, based upon the original in the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, Paris. This loom uses an earlier form of the Jacquard System, i.e. a rotating drum to select heddles.

Model on a reduced scale of the first Vaucanson loom of 1745

1745; before 1935