drop box

noun

, Textiles.

a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.

First recorded in 1855–60

In 1760 Robert Kay invented the drop box, by which different shuttles carrying different colors of thread were employed.

The front end of the feed rod is supported in a drop box q, and is splined to allow the worm k to travel upon it.

It is true that both the fly-shuttle and drop-box had been invented by that time, but the loom was still worked by human power.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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