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A cotton fabrics glossary (1914)

Frank P. Bennett & Co · Boston, New York, Frank P. Bennett · leaf 630

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n or Sea Island cotton,which is especially adapted for mer-cerizing purposes, of 1%-inch staple.The 1%-inch peeler cotton would be er, 40 pounds or a 16-ounce lap, intermediate, 38 pounds or a 12-ounce lap,and at the finisher, a 38-pound or a 13-ounce lap. For the Sea Island stockthere would be an… … Fig. 2. put through an opener and three proc-esses of pickers, the speed of a two-bladed beater being as follows:Breaker, 1,500 revolutions per minute;intermediate, 1,400 revolutions perminute, and finisher, 1,400 revolutionsper minute. The weights of the lapfor this fabric would be, at the break-…

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