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Flying shuttle showing metal capped ends, wheels, and a pirn of weft thread. John Kay (17 June 1704 – c. 1779) was an English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. He is often confused with his namesake, [10] [11] who built the first "spinning frame". [12]
Holding the reed beater bar in the left hand, and the (picking-stick-mounted) string tugged to return the flying shuttle in the right hand.See video below. In a typical frame loom, as used previous to the invention of the flying shuttle, the operator sat with the newly woven cloth before them, using treadles or some other mechanism to raise and lower the heddles, which opened the shed in the ...
In 1738, John Kay started to improve the loom. He improved the reed, and invented the raceboard, the shuttleboxes and the picker which together allowed one weaver to double his output. This invention is commonly called the flying shuttle. It met with violent opposition and he fled from Lancashire to Leeds. [10]
In 1734 in Bury, Lancashire, John Kay invented the flying shuttle — one of the first of a series of inventions associated with the cotton industry. The flying shuttle increased the width of cotton cloth and speed of production of a single weaver at a loom. [11]
Richard Arkwright employed John Kay to produce a new spinning machine that Kay had worked on with (or possibly stolen from) another inventor named Thomas Highs. [2] With the help of other local craftsmen, including Peter Atherton, the team developed the spinning frame, which produced a stronger thread than the spinning jenny invented by James Hargreaves. [3]
Born in Warrington in Lancashire, England, [1] Kay was at least the co-constructor of the first spinning frame, and was a claimant to having been its inventor. He is sometimes confused with the unrelated John Kay from Bury, Lancashire, who had invented the flying shuttle, a weaving machine, some thirty years earlier. [a]
1733 – John Kay patents the flying shuttle. 1738 – Lewis Paul patents the draw roller. 1745 – Jacques Vaucanson in Lyon invents the first fully automated loom. 1758 – Jedediah Strutt adds a second set of needles to Lee's stocking frame thus creating the rib frame. 1764 – James Hargreaves or Thomas Highs invents the spinning jenny ...
John Kay (flying shuttle) (1704–c. 1779), English inventor of the flying shuttle textile machinery; John Kay (spinning frame) (18th century), English developer of the spinning frame textile machinery; John A. Kay (1830–?), American architect in Columbia, South Carolina; John Albert Kay, Canadian electrical engineer