Quick protect
A quick shooter is a specific type of web shuttle and is also called a flying shuttle . It is designed to be able to shoot from one side to the other as quickly as possible using a suitable mechanism. Its cuboid basic shape is an adaptation to the shop floor of the high-speed loom. Speed protectors for hand weaving usually have rollers on the underside so that the effort for the weaver is not so great. Due to their inclination, these determine the angle at which the shooter is pressed against the door leaf during the shot. Rapid protectors for weaving machines have no rollers, friction does not play a special role there. Metal tips at the ends of the shuttle increase the service life of the quick shuttle for both hand and machine looms.
The rapid shooter was registered for a patent by John Kay in 1733 and began to establish itself from 1760. It speeded up and simplified the weaving process and also enabled wider fabrics to be woven by a single worker. The higher productivity of the weavers soon led to the so-called hunger for yarn , since the weavers' yarn needs could no longer be met by the spinning processes of that time. A further development of the spinning process was necessary and the first spinning machines were invented.
This development is considered to be the trigger for a series of innovations that set the great industrial revolution in motion.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Almut Bohnsack: Spinning and Weaving. Deutsches Museum, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1981, p. 190.
- ↑ Almut Bohnsack: Spinning and Weaving. Deutsches Museum, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1981, pp. 187–195.