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 119
108 HAT-MAKING MACHINERY. … placed in front of the carding machine, and the sliver is wound upon a double cone, making two hat-bodies at a time. These are divided and removed from the cone when a sufficient quantity of mate-rial has been gathered. The wool-former is older than the fur-former, and it remains substantiallyas it…
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