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 544
he rags are fed to the first cylinder, and are delivered from cylinder to cylinder untilthey pass from the machine. The comparatively clean stock, and that which will not bear suchrough treatment as is given by the previously described machines, is commonly passed through arevolving cylinder of… … may gradually work downward, brushing over the wire until they fall out at the lower end.cylinder makes about 30 turns per minute. Proteaux gives the approximate loss of fibre by sorting, cutting, and dusting as follows : whites,fine and half fine, 6 to 9 per cent.; white, coarse, 10 to 15 per…
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