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 680
he rovings are caused to pass in the act of spinning. By this means, the glutinous matter ad-hering to the fibres is thoroughly dissolved, and a much finer, smoother, and more uniform thread thancould otherwise have been possible, is produced. There is an improvement in the method of drivingthe… … 070 FLAX, MACHINERY FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING. Fig. 17;> 1 is a front elevation, broken iu the middle, for the purpose of exposing part of the geeringfor working the traverse mot inn. Pig, 1786 is an elevation of the geering end of the machine; and Fig. 1*736 is a transverse section of…
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