Toyoda Type G automatic loom
Telar automático Toyoda tipo G
- Date
- 1924 · confidence high
- Place
- Kariya, Aichi, Japan
- Credited to
- Toyoda Sakichi
- People
- 👤 Sakichi Toyoda1867–1930
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A loom that changed shuttles without stopping and halted automatically when a thread broke, so a single worker could tend many looms. Its patents, sold to Platt Brothers, financed Toyota's automobile division.
What it led to
- the founding of Toyota Motor (1937)
- the jidoka principle of automatic stopping on failure