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Scope and Contents Negative no.B2202. 1918-1919. Image depicts a close-up view of the Whitin-Owen feeler motion attached to a (presumably) Draper Corporation loom. A feeler is a device on a loom designed to transfer a full bobbin to the shuttle before the old one is entirely emptied. The feeler projects into the shuttle from the side and feels the yarn on the bobbin. When the bobbin is approaching emptiness, the feeler actuates the transfer motion and replaces the bobbin. The Whitin-Owen feeler motion was...

Scope and Contents Negative no.B2204. December 10, 1918. Image depicts a portrait of James Northrup (1856-1940), inventor of the Northrup Loom. He is pictured sporting a moustache and is dressed in suit and tie. The Draper Corporation produced the Northrup Loom, named for its inventor, who had emigrated from Keighley, Yorkshire, England in 1881. Northrup invented the first fully automatic loom, its basic feature being the filling-changing battery. Northrup looms were first marketed by Draper in 1894. Nothrup...