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 682
G- G, are sheet-iron linings extending from the beam C to H H, spouts formed under and within the rows of bobbins. These linings and spouts serve to collectand withdraw the water which is thrown off by the centrifugal force of the bobbins. … r r, the flyers for guiding and winding the yarn on s s, the bobbins, formed with a species of pulley on their lower flanges. In this machine the bobbinsare not driven independently of the spindles, for a reason which we have specified in our introductoryremarks. The natural tendency of the bobbins…
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