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[[image:JD 2019 Vaucanson Loom 4.JPG|thumb|2019. Showing the cams which operate the treadles]]
[[image:JD 2019 Vaucanson Loom 4.JPG|thumb|2019. Showing the cams which operate the treadles]]
[[image:JD 2019 Vaucanson Loom 8.JPG|thumb|2019. The punched controlling drum is visible here]]
[[image:JD 2019 Vaucanson Loom 8.JPG|thumb|2019. The punched controlling drum is visible here]]
[[image:JD 2019 Vaucanson Loom 8.JPG|thumb|2019. The crank handle which provides the entire motive power is visible here]]
Métier à tisser les étoffes façonnées de Vaucanson.
Métier à tisser les étoffes façonnées de Vaucanson.


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2019. Loom on display at the Musée des Arts et Métiers
2019. Right hand shuttle tube carriage
2019. Right hand shuttle tube carriage
2019. Shuttle
2019. Showing the worm and wheel gearing for the winding-on roll
2019. L.H. shuttle carriage and hand-cranked shafts with bevel gears. The gears are relatively modern
2019. Showing the cams which operate the treadles
2019. The punched controlling drum is visible here
2019. The crank handle which provides the entire motive power is visible here

Métier à tisser les étoffes façonnées de Vaucanson.

In 1745-48 the brilliant French inventor and engineer Jacques de Vaucanson designed a loom intended to partially automate the work of the drawman and the weaver. The mechanism, the shuttle and the beater were driven by cams while the fabric was regularly wound on. It did not find commercial application.

The photographs show a reconstruction of the machine displayed at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris. See also Museum webpage here.

It is not clear how much of the machine is original.

The museum also have a scale model of the loom, made by Jean Marin in 1855. It is not on display, Photo here. Museum's listing here.

The machine was illustrated and described in detail in the Bulletin de la Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale in 1853.[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ [1] Bulletin de la Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale, 1853. 52e année. N. 583-594, p.721ff
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