CARPET WEAVER, JACQUARD LOOM

  

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CARPET WEAVER, JACQUARD LOOM

Specialty Definition: CARPET WEAVER, JACQUARD LOOM

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Operates one or more $T3Jacquard looms$T1 equipped with pile-wire mechanism to weave carpeting of intricate design: Moves lever to open shed, and inserts specified number of $T3pile wires$T1 through shed in sequence to produce pile. Forces cop of filling into shuttle, using mallet, and inserts shuttle into loom. Places wax in holder to lubricate pile wires as wires enter and are withdrawn from shed. Starts loom and observes weaving to detect exhausted filling packages, mispicks, and irregular cutting of pile. Replaces exhausted filling, inserts pile wires into missed loops, and replaces dull cutting blades. Pulls out filling to remove defects in carpeting. Pulls cord to reverse pattern chain and card cylinder so that weaving will resume at place where defect occurred to maintain pattern continuity. Notifies CARD CHANGER, JACQUARD LOOM (textile) as pattern cards become worn or damaged. May be designated according to type of carpeting woven as Wilton Weaver (carpet & rug). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CARPET WEAVER, JACQUARD LOOM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 41 52 50 45 54      57 45 41 56 45 52 2C      4A 41 43 51 55 41 52 44      4C 4F 4F 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01010010 01010000 01000101 01010100 00100000 01010111 01000101 01000001 01010110 01000101 01010010 00101100 00100000 01001010 01000001 01000011 01010001 01010101 01000001 01010010 01000100 00100000 01001100 01001111 01001111 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#82 &#80 &#69 &#84 &#32 &#87 &#69 &#65 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#44 &#32 &#74 &#65 &#67 &#81 &#85 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#32 &#76 &#79 &#79 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0052 0050 0045 0054      0057 0045 0041 0056 0045 0052 002C      004A 0041 0043 0051 0055 0041 0052 0044      004C 004F 004F 004D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37355250395425739355639521424435375155355238246494947

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