Warburg, James P. (James Paul), 1896-1969 · [Boston] The First national bank of Boston · leaf 28
dto the second, or intermediate picker. This machine practically repeatsthe operation only that it combines four laps from the first picker intoone which it hands over to the last, or finisher picker. The latter againtakes four intermediate laps and forms them into one sheet of fairlyclean cotton,… … PRINCIPLE OF THE FLAT CARD Before anything else can be done it is now necessary to remove theleaf particles, and to separate the individual fibres from their mattedposition. Both these functions are performed by the machine knownas the Card, the principle of which is that of two surfaces armed…
Cotton manufacture · Cotton trade
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