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John Kay marries his wife Anne Holte. He and his brother, William, both married Bury women.
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Lettice, his daughter was born.
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His son, Robert was born. His son would go on to make the "Drop Box" a very valuable part of the loom.
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A weaver was now able to weave much wider fabrics and it could also be mechanized for automatic machine looms.
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Kay negotiated with paris trying to get them to but the flying shuttle, eventually they agreed to 3,000 livres plus a pension of 2,500 livre annually from 1749.
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The people of france adopted the flying shuttle way of weaving. Though most of the machines were copies
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John Kay's son, Robert, invented the "Drop Box," which allowed looms to use multiple shuttles. This allowed multicolor weaves.
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Cotton weavers' speed doubled with the flying shuttle, which made cloth cheaper to make.
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John Kay got a partnership in Colchester to begin shuttle manufacturing.
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Kay and Joseph Stell patented a machine for cloth ribbon weaving. But they were unable to follow through with their plans due to kays legal cost.
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