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 111
cted tothe cone by an air-blast from a blower beneath. Fig. 2296 represents a Wells machine of late con-struction. An apron and two small feed-rollers deliver the fur to a rotating picker-cylinder. Theair-current caused by the latter carries the fur to the mouth of the trunk. The size of the… … exhaust-fan, by means of which an air-current is drawn in through the perforations, so that the furis thus caused to be deposited over the surface of the cone. This process continues until all the furset apart for one hat-body is thus deposited. Over the material a wet cloth is wrapped, and over…
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