How the New Practice was Derived.
All of the previous assembly methods had been determined by the usual practice of putting braider parts together. In the present case the braider was taken apart; that is, handled in the reverse order of assembly, in order to determine from a new viewpoint the best method of putting the various parts together. The parts were laid out on a table in the sequence in which they were disassembled. This allowed the various members of the braider divisions, groups, and sub-groups to be studied in relation to one another and also separately.