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 807
; for ribbons and common silk, thrown singles; for the best silk, tram and organzine.Doubling is the process of bringing two or more twisted threads into one and winding them prepara-tory to spinning. t . T7ie Silk-Spinning Frame constructed by the Dan forth Locomotive Works of Taterson, N. J.,… … SLIDE-VALVE. 775 which are in single pairs, and not compound as in cotton-spinning, no stretch being given or required.The threads are again doubled or twisted by a second operation. From the spinning frame the silk is transferred to the reel-mill, Fig. 3943, where it is again woundinto skeins, and…
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