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COTION CHATS


TRADE- MARK R. EG. U. S. PAT. OFF.


DRAPER


@ RPORATION


HOPEDALE MASS.


No. 240. MARCH, 1923


THE NORTHROP LOOM


IN THE WORSTED FIELD


Early attempts to use the Northrop loom to weave


single- filling Worsteds met with a number of failures


because of bar effects in the cloth due to variations in


the size of the ftlling. This was not a peculiarity of the


Northrop loom, but a common defect of weaving conditions


allowed to exist and persist under the common loom


regime- a defect not remedied, but overcome by using


a box loom to mix the fIlling by alternately laying picks


from different bobbins.


When we ventured the statement that there was


a remedy and that it lay in making the filIing of uniform


size, the answer came back:


" It can't be done with worsteds."


" What must be done to get the full benefit of modern


machinery can be done" has been the motto of a few


progressive American manufacturers at every fork in the


roads on the forward journey of 19th and 20th century


industry; and we found enough Worsted manufacturers

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