Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 110
ugh drying should follow. Hair is some-times prepared in a solution of quicksilver and urine. All furs are more or less mixed with longhair, and for the removal of this the fur-blowing machine is employed. The Fur-blowing Machine is represented in Fig. 2295. The material is spread upon a… … into a chamber which is closed by a fine wire screen, through which the air escapes, carrying thefiner particles of dust with it. The hair and coarse particles fall upon a wire screen, which isvibrated by a cam E, and thence pass upon an apron, which delivers them under the feed-apron.Another…
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