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 290
the starch with thefabric. From the wheelthe goods are sent tothe rubbing or formingroom. The term forming is applied to a process in which a second quality of starch is thoroughly rubbed into the texture of the article, the objectbeing to remove all wrinkles and straighten out the material, so to… … 278 LAUNDRY MACHINERY.
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