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 671
roposed by it is threefold : First, the part-ing of the filaments into their finest fibrils; secondly, the separation and removal, with the least possi-ble injury to the real fibres, of the tow, or short fibres which adhere to the former and bind themtogether; and thirdly, the equable and parallel… … FLAX, MACHINERY FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING. 661 pins, or hackle teeth; the thickness of these, and their degree of approximation varying with the pro-gressive stages of the operation. . In hackling by the hand, the operative wraps one end of the strick of flax firmly over his right hand,throws it…
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