Close-up view of battery on Draper Company loom, Model E, with duflex (?) harness

Negative no.A22. 1894-1900. Image depicts a close-up view of the battery on a Draper Company Model E loom with a duplex harness. A battery is a mechanism found on single box automatic looms. The battery holds a plentiful supply of filling bobbins and transfers them, one at a time, to the shuttle as the need arises. The Draper Company, located in Hopedale, Massachusetts, manufactured textile machinery, primarily looms. See Negative 27, in this box, for a view of the entire loom. 5 x 7 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 1, Folder 2, Item 22 for print of this negative. See also, Collection 6612 P, Box 19, Folder 1, Item 22 for print of this negative.