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The original number of looms shipped in 1915 was


252, all 28 inch E model pillow tubing looms.


An actual life of over Seven Years in constant use


is a remarkable Shuttle record, and it has tempted our


mathematicians to get out their pads and pencils and


estimate how far this Shuttle may have travelled in its


long and active life.


They tell us that, after proper and liberal allowance


for stops, waits, holidays and vacations and all other


reasons for non- operation common in the average mill, this


Seven- Year- old Shuttle must have travelled about 150,000


miles, equal to six times around the world, or more than


half the distance from the Earth to the Moon.


Three views of this veteran shuttle are shown on the


opposite page.


MORE THAN 2100 KINDS


OF DRAPER SHUTTLES


Since the introduction of the Northrop Automatic loom


we have designed and sent out to our customers more than


2100 different kinds of Shuttles. Some of these differed


only in minor particulars; but these 2100 different Shuttles


represented that number of combinations of 242 Shuttle


Blanks of varying styles and dimensions, 115 Springs, 34


Spring Covers, 151 Shuttle Eyes and numerous other minor


devices, all designed and made to meet varying spinning


and weaving conditions in mills using Northrop looms.


More combinations are called for almost every week and


will be made up whenever there is need of meeting new


conditions at a mill or the peculiar demands of a special


weave; and whenever our experts and experimenters

Cotton Chats 1923, No. 238, Page 2-3