Flying shuttle

In 1733, John Kay invented the flying shuttle, an improvement to looms that enabled weavers to weave faster and contributed to the Industrial Revolution.

The flying shuttle was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. It allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics, and it could be mechanized, allowing for automatic machine looms. The flying shuttle, which was patented by John Kay (1704–c. 1779) in 1733, greatly sped up the previous hand process and halved the labour force.

The Flying Shuttle invented un 1733 by John Kay was a machine that allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics and It could be mechanized allowing for automatic machine looms. Kay was born in 1704 and dead in 1779. He was married to Anne Holte

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Invented by John Kay in 1733 the ' Flying shuttle' was a vital invention in the midst of the industrial revolution- particularly in the textile industry.

A mechanized loom powered by a drive shaft. It eased the process of constructing fabric.

This edited article about John Kay originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 235 published on 16 July 1966. A weaver sits at a loom showing the workings of the flying shuttle Man has been weaving cloth for thousands of years, but until the flying shuttle was invented by John Kay, born on July […]

John Kay was born in July 16th, 1704, near Bury, Lancashire, England, and died in 1780 in France. He was a machinist and engineer, inventor of the flying shuttle, which was an important step toward automatic weaving. Using the flying shuttle, one weaver could weave fabrics of any width more quickly than two could before.

The flying shuttle is a machine that represented an important step toward automatic weaving . It was invented by John Kay in 1733. In previous looms, the shuttle was thrown, or passed, through the threads by hand, and wide fabrics required two weavers seated side by side passing the shuttle between them. Kay mounted his shuttle on wheels in a track and used paddles to shoot the shuttle from side to side when the weaver jerked a cord. Using the flying shuttle, one weaver could weave fabrics…

A flying shuttle, used in the textile industry to pull thread (weft) horizontally across longitudinal threads (the warp) on a weaving frame. The device was invented by John Kay in 1733 and greatly speeded...