Flying shuttle

A Quick shooter is a particular type of Webschiffchens and is also called the flying boat. It is designed to be able to be fired by a suitable mechanism as quickly as possible from one side to the other. Its rectangular basic shape is an adaptation to the loading path of the snapshot loom. Quick shooter for the hand weaving usually have rollers on the bottom so that the effort required by the Weber is not so great. These are determined by their skew the angle at which the shooter wird.Schnellschützen pressed during the shot against the loading sheet for weaving machines have no roles that friction plays no special role there. Increase metal tips of the Schiffchenenden the life of the Quick Protect both for hand - as well as for Maschinenwebstühle.

The quick shooter was filed in 1733 by John Kay for a patent and began to gain since 1760. He accelerated and simplified the weaving and also enabled the weaving of wider materials by a single worker. The higher productivity of the weavers soon led to the so-called Garnhunger, there could no longer be covered by the then spinning the yarn requirement of weavers. A further development of the spinning process was necessary and invented the first spinning machines.

This development is regarded as a trigger for a series of innovations that put the great Industrial Revolution in motion.