Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 663
proposed by it is threefold: First, the part-ing of the filaments into then- 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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