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Francis Cabot Lowell traveled to Great Britain from the United States in 1810 to study the textile industry there.nhl cheap jerseys He paid particular attention to the workings of the power loom, a device for which was not available in North America. He memorised the plans for the machine, as the British had banned the export of the new technology. On returning to Boston, he put together a group of investors, and sought the assistance of a master mechanic named Paul Moody. By 1815, Moody had built the first power loom in Waltham, Massachusetts.[10]
In 1881 James Henry Northrop emigrated to the USA from Keighley,nba jerseys Yorkshire, England he worked for the Draper Corporation of Hopedale, Massachusetts. His inventions leading to an automatic "weft replenishment" loom revolutionised the weaving industry. Some 700,000 "Northrop" automatic looms were sold worldwide.
Draper's strategy was to standardise on a couple of models which it mass produced. The lighter E-model of 1909 was joined in the 1930 by the heavier X-model. Continuous fibre machines, say for rayon, which was more break-prone,ed hardy jeans needed a specialist loom. This was provided by the purchase of the Stafford Loom Co. in 1932, and using their patents a third loom the XD, was added to the range. Because of their mass production techniques they were reluctant and slow to retool for new technologies such as shuttleless looms.
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