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 672
e rovings are caused to pass in the act of spinning. By this means, the glutinous matter ad-lieriug 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… … 670 FLAX, MACHINERY FOR PREPARING AND SPINNING. Fi°\ 1734 is a front elevation, broken in the middle, for the purpose of exposing part of the geeringfor working the traverse motion. Fi°\ 1735 is an elevation of the geering end of the machine; and Fig. 1T3G is a transverse section of thc-entire…
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