1838 Holland's Doubling and Twisting Silk Machine
1838 Holland's Doubling and Twisting Silk Machine
- Description
- Spinning, Doubling, and Twisting Silk Machine Patent Model
- Patent No. 977, issued on October 10, 1838
- Harrison Holland of Northampton, Massachusetts
- The central part of Holland’s patent concerned the stop motion mechanism on a silk thread making machine. If a thread broke, a small rod, connected to each of the threads by bent wires, would drop. A lever, to which the rod was attached, would come in contact with the drum and then stop the machine by throwing it out of gear. Also included in the patent was a method to change the twist of the silk thread by using a short cylinder.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Patent model
- silk spinner patent model
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- model constructed
- before 1838-10-10
- patent date
- 1838-10-10
- inventor
- Holland, Harrison
- associated place
- United States: Massachusetts, Northampton
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- ID Number
- TE.T11407.027
- accession number
- 89797
- patent number
- 977
- catalog number
- T11407.027
- subject
- Patent Models
- Invention
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Textiles
- Patent Models
- Patent Models, Textile Machinery
- Textiles
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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