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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]
The brainchild of John Kay, the flying shuttle received a patent in the year 1733 during the Industrial Revolution. Its implementation brought about an acceleration of the previously manual weaving process and resulted in a significant reduction in the required labour force.
1733 was a common year ... May 26 – The introduction of John Kay's Flying Shuttle which revolutionized the textile industry and marked the beginning of the ...
Robert Kay (1728–1802) was an English inventor, best known for designing a drop box to improve the capability of weaving looms. Robert Kay was born in 1728 to John Kay and Ann Holt. [1] He became a shuttlemaker in his native Bury, Lancashire, married in 1748 and had several children. His father emigrated to France in 1747 and was joined there ...
John Kay's 1733 flying shuttle enabled cloth to be woven faster, of a greater width, and for the process to later be mechanised. Cotton spinning using Richard Arkwright's water frame, James Hargreaves' Spinning Jenny, and Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule (a combination of the Spinning Jenny and the Water Frame). This was patented in 1769 and so ...
The flying shuttle (John Kay 1733) had increased yarn demand by the weavers by doubling their productivity, [2] and now the spinning jenny could supply that demand by increasing the spinners' productivity even more. The machine produced coarse thread.
Shuttles were originally passed back and forth by hand. However, John Kay invented a loom in 1733 that incorporated a flying shuttle.This shuttle could be thrown through the warp, which allowed much wider cloth to be woven much more quickly and made the development of machine looms much simpler.
May 26 – The flying shuttle loom is patented by John Kay, making weaving faster and increasing demand for yarn. [2] The perambulator or pram (a baby carriage) is invented by English architect William Kent for children of the 3rd Duke of Devonshire. The achromatic refracting lens is invented by English barrister Chester Moore Hall.