=II. Full Technological Certificate.=--The candidate, who is not
otherwise qualified (see Regulations 33 and 34), will be required, for
the full Certificate in the Ordinary Grade, to have passed the Science
and Art Department’s Examination, in the Elementary Stage at least, and
for the full Certificate in the Honours Grade, in the Advanced Stage at
least, in two of the following Science subjects:--
II. Machine Construction and Drawing.
III. Building Construction.
VI. Theoretical Mechanics.
VII. Applied Mechanics.
XV. Elementary Botany.
Certificates, showing that the candidate has passed the Second Grade
Examination of the Science and Art Department in Geometrical Drawing as
well as in Freehand or Model Drawing, will be accepted in lieu of one
of the above Science subjects for the full Technological Certificate in
either grade of the Examination.
SECTION II.--COTTON WEAVING.
The Examination in the Ordinary Grade will consist of a paper of
questions only.
=I. Syllabus.=--The Examination will include questions founded on such
subjects as the following:--
1. Winding Machines for warping and pirns.
2. Warping.--Mill, beam and sectional.
3. Sizing.--Ball, hank, dressing, slashing upon both cylinder and
hot-air frames.
4. Beaming and Scotch Dressing.
5. Reeds and Healds (Counts Setting, &c.), Drawing in and Twisting.
6. Comparative merits of Hand and Power Looms.
7. The Power Loom--its parts, the principle governing each, with the
relation and timing of each to the other.
8. Shedding Motions--as Tappets with their over and under motions.
Dobbies or witches.
9. Picking motions, alternate and “pick and pick.”
10. Beating up, shuttle box, and minor motions.
11. Necessary calculations for the power loom.
12. The various makes of cloth produced by Tappets and Dobbies as plain
cloth, twills, satins, and small figured effects, with one warp and
weft, or with the addition of extra warp for figuring, as in Dhooties.
13. Method of making designs, drafts, and tie-ups for the above.
14. Colour and colour blending as applied to the coloured branches of
the industry.
15. Calculations for warp and weft and method of costing goods.
* * * * *
The Examination for the Honours Grade will consist of more advanced
questions on the preceding subjects, especially those enumerated
in Sections 7 to 11; and, in addition, questions relating to the
following:--
1. Construction of the various Jacquard machines in use, and their
relative suitability to various goods, and the system of mounting
Jacquard looms.
2. Construction, merits and uses of the hand loom.
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