Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 263
ards, h the small cylinder card for stripping off the cotton, called the doffer ; i the doffer knife orcomb for stripping the fleecy web from the doffer, operated by the lever mechanism, k, I, g, m. The flat top cards, are long narrow strips of wood lined on their under surfaces with card…
Mechanical engineering
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