The Enquirer

THE USEFUL ARTS.

There has been exhibited for two or three weeks in an apartment of the capitol in this city an improved Loom, which for general utility promises to excel any modern improvement in the useful arts which has come within our knowledge. This machine resembles the common loom though smaller, but is so ingeniously constructed as to require the force and agency of a single arm only to give a perfect & rapid motion to all its parts. By simply working the batten or slay in the common manner, motion is given to a boring shuttle, works the treadles, and, at proper times, lets out the warp and winds up the cloth, keeping the whole well tightened and in proper order. The shuttle can be thrown 200 times in a minute. (or any number of times the slay can be made to traverse: as the motion of the former is generated by that of the latter.) and the work of the loom averages thirty yards of common cloth per day: two inches of ordinary size have been woven in one minute.

Such is the character given of the machine by the proprietor, and, after attentively witnessing its operation, we cannot question his statement. The inventor of it is Mr. Luther James of Connecticut. The loom as adapted to the manufacture of any fabrick, from the finest silk to the coarsest bagging: and from its cheapness and superiority for family use will prove a benefit to the community, as we hope of wealth to the inventor and proprietors.

Nat. Int.