takett

A Middle English form of tacket take-up (tāk'up), n. In mech.: (a) Any device by which a flexible band, be it, rope, or tie may be tightened or shortened. (b) In many machines, any one of a variety of devices by which, when a part of the material is fed forward to be acted upon, that which has already been treated is wound upon a roller or other wise "taken up." Also called take -up motion. Such devices are used in looms, and in many other ma chines for the manufacture and treatment of textile fabrics, paper-hangings, oilcloth-printing, etc. Worm-gearing or ratchet-motions are features of most of them. (c) In a sewing-machine, a device for drawing up the slack of the thread as the needle rises. A sewing machine, and a take up and tension for sewing machines, form the subject of three patents. Sci . Amer ., N. S., LVIII. 138.