Heddles for the Jacquard Harness
After the harness-cords are threaded through the comber-board the heddles are adjusted. Of these there are two kinds:
A. The twine heddle, containing the mail for holding the warp-thread.
B. The wire heddle, similar in its construction to the regular heddle, used in the common harness-loom. These are very little used, and only in fabrics of a low texture.
Fig. XXI. illustrates a regular twine heddle one-fourth of its actual size.
b represents the mail, through the eye of which the warp-threads are passed.
a, the adjustment of the heddle to the harness-cord.
c indicates part of the lingo for weighting the heddle.
Fig. XXII. illustrates the method observed for combining heddle and harness-cords. a, the guide-board, to get the mails regular in height; b, the knot combining heddle and harness-cord. [See a in Fig. XXI.] c, the mail. d, the lingo.
Fig. XXIII. illustrates the average position of the mail in a loom. a, breast-beam of the loom. c, the warp-beam or guide-beam over which the warp runs on its way towards the harness. b, the position of the heddle. d, the lingo.