396 hooks, leaving 4 hooks more to be added to the two rows already used; or 408 hooks, requiring us to call upon the reserve rows for eight extra hooks.
Hooks which have no leashes adjusted must be taken out of the machine.
Sometimes two, three, or more, machines are employed on one loom, and may be worked in different manners. In this country Jacquard machines, for power as well as hand-looms, are made of iron, whereas in Europe the machines for hand-looms (comprising the greater part of the Jacquard machines in use) are made of wood; using the iron ones only for power-looms; and even yet, in most cases, the wooden machines are used for the latter.
Illustrations of the Different Parts of the Jacquard Machine.—Method of Operation, etc.
Every Jacquard machine may be divided into the following parts:
Fig. I.