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 978
her, until a lap of the required thickness is formed, this being often an inch, neces-sitating a great number of slivers. This lap is then made to pass through a series of wooden andtin rollers, arranged so that the upper rollers of wood are partly between the pairs of the lower tiDrollers. The… … 944 WOOL MACHINERY. axes, but the wooden ones, besides this motion, have a slight movement from side to side, which causesthem to rub the lap of slivers, and induces the fibres of wool to combine and felt together as they arecurried along by the revolutions of the two sets of rollers, the heated…
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