Category: History - American

Elastic and non-elastic narrow fabrics

_Growth of Webbing Business—Attempts to Substitute Cut Products for Individually Woven Webs Made on Gang Looms—Loom Setting to Reduce Vibration—Capacity of Looms and Explanation of the Various Motions That Are Employed_

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I.

_Growth of Webbing Business—Attempts to Substitute Cut Products for Individually Woven Webs Made on Gang Looms—Loom Setting to Reduce Vibration—Capacity of Looms and Explanation...

2. CHAPTER II.

_Looms Should Be Adapted to Make a Wide Variety of Goods—Take-Up and Let-Off Motions—Making the Rubber Warps for Different Classes of Web—Importance of Uniform Tension—Defects f...

3. CHAPTER III.

_Head Motion Looms and Dobbies for Making Fancy Effects—Tying Up Harness—Construction of Loom Webs, Lisle Webs, French Web or Railroad Weave and Cable Webs—Making Good Selvages...

4. CHAPTER IV.

_Elaboration of Honeycomb Effects by Parti-Dyed and Printed Fillings—Bandage and Surgical Webs Made with Plain and Covered Rubber—Frill Web Woven on Cam Looms—Double Cloths—Impo...

5. CHAPTER V.

_Three Leaf Twill or Satin Face Woven in Conjunction with Plain Back—Position of Back Rolls in Relation to Harness Shed—Use of Four Leaf Twill—Filling Fancy Effects and Stitch F...

6. CHAPTER VI.

_Combination of Weaves in a Fine Web—Sunken Effects Made on Head Motion and Jacquard Looms—Employment of More Than One Bank of Shuttles—The Overshot Method—Use of Different Colo...

7. CHAPTER VII.

_Making Frills in the Middle of Goods—Woven Shirred Effects—Novel Decoration at Edge of Fancy Frills—Lappet Weaving on Elastic Fabrics Affords Opportunity for Elaboration at Sma...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

In previous articles we have confined our remarks to the production of elastic fabrics on plain and fancy looms. These machines are more or less limited in capacity, and the sto...

9. CHAPTER IX.

_Making Warps for Elastic Fabrics—Quills for Use in Shuttles—Effect of Finishing Processes Must Be Calculated from Beginning of Web Construction—Details of Processes and Machine...

10. CHAPTER X.

_Embossing Webs—Type of Construction and Design for Which Process is Adapted—Braiding Flat Elastic Fabrics, Plain Cords for Athletics and Airplanes, and Fancy Cords—How Sizes Ar...

11. CHAPTER XI.

Until recently the soft collar was cut and carved into shape from plain piece goods. The patented Van Heusen collar has done away with much of this, for from the loom is produce...