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The Lancashire Loom was a semi-automatic power loom invented by James Bullough and William Kenworthy in 1842. Although it is self-acting, it has to be stopped to recharge empty shuttles. It was the mainstay of the Lancashire cotton industry for a century.

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Lancashire Loom

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The Lancashire Loom was a semi-automatic power loom invented by James Bullough and William Kenworthy in 1842. Although it is self-acting, it has to be...

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Power loom

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the Lancashire loom. By the year 1850, there were a total of around 260,000 power loom operations in England. Two years later came the Northrop loom which...

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Loom

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A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry. The basic purpose of any loom is to hold the warp threads under tension to facilitate the interweaving...

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Roberts Loom

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Roberts loom was a cast-iron power loom introduced by Richard Roberts in 1830. It was the first loom that was more viable [how?] than a hand loom and was...

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Weaving

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late sector to be mechanised. The loom became semi-automatic in 1842 with Kenworthy and Bulloughs Lancashire Loom. The various innovations took weaving...

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Dandy loom

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A Dandy loom was a hand loom, that automatically ratchetted the take-up beam. Each time the weaver moved the sley to beat-up the weft, a rachet and pawl...

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Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution

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manufactured the first loom with a cast-iron frame, the Roberts Loom. In 1842 James Bullough and William Kenworthy, made the Lancashire Loom. It is a semiautomatic...

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Blackburn

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ISBN 0-85033-865-4. Turner, William (1992). RIOT!: The Story of the East Lancashire Loom-Breakers. Lancashire County Books. ISBN 1-871236-17-7. Wikimedia Commons has media...

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Textile manufacturing

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to the fell of the cloth. The Lancashire Loom was the first semi-automatic loom. Jacquard looms and Dobby looms are looms that have sophisticated methods...

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Cotton mill

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Robert's cast iron power loom (1822) and became perfected by the Kenworthy and Bullough Lancashire Loom (1854). The Northrop or Draper Loom (1895) replaced these...

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Platt Brothers

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automatic weaving loom designed by Sakichi Toyoda. The Toyoda Model G loom had mechanical sensors that automatically shut down the loom if a warp thread...

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Accrington

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June 2011. Turner, William (1992). Riot! Story of East Lancashire Loom Breakers in 1826. Lancashire County Books. ISBN 978-1-871236-17-0. "An alarming statement...

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Timeline of clothing and textiles technology

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function, does not patent it. 1842 – Lancashire Loom developed by Bullough and Kenworthy, a semi automatic Power loom. 1842 – John Greenough patents the...

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Shot silk

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Air-jet loom Dandy loom Dobby loom Hattersley loom Horrocks loom Jacquard loom Lancashire loom Northrop loom Power loom Rapier loom Roberts loom Warp-weighted...

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Hattersley loom

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The Hattersley loom was developed by George Hattersley and Sons of Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. The company had been started by Richard Hattersley...

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Northrop Loom

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shuttleless looms. Large numbers of Northrop type looms were manufactured by the British Northrop Loom Company at its factory in Blackburn, Lancashire. F Model:...

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More looms

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more looms system was a productivity strategy introduced in the Lancashire cotton industry, whereby each weaver would manage a greater number of looms. It...

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Horrocks loom

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and patented a power loom in 1785, and it was this loom that was adopted by the nascent cotton industry in England. The silk loom made by Jacques Vaucanson...

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Textile industry

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first loom with a cast iron frame, the Roberts Loom. In 1842 James Bullough and William Kenworthy, made the Lancashire Loom, a semiautomatic power loom: although...

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Failsworth

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income with domestic hand-loom weaving. The humid climate and abundant labour and coal led to weaving of textiles as a Lancashire Mill Town with redbrick...

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Four Loom Weaver

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any other period of her life. A Four Loom weaver is power loom weaver using four Lancashire Looms in a Lancashire weaving shed. They probably would be...

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Bullough

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football coach James Bullough (1800–1868), English inventor of the 1842 Lancashire Loom Denis Bullough (born 1895), British football player James Bullough...

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