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 668
varied according to the degree of fineness olthe roving. F, the cone driven by a strap belt from the pulley on the shaft E, and communicating a graduallyretarded motion, at once to the bobbins themselves and to the traverse of the bobbin rail; the velocityof the spindles and flyers remaining… … miJi i niiiiiimrriiTirnniiiiiini M|JTil 1 FLAX, MACHINERY FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING. slight inclination, in order to allow the belt to act upon a greater part of its periphery towards the apesthan towards the base where, on account of the increased diameter, this precaution is less necessary…
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