Cotton manufacture: a manual of practical instruction in the processes of opening, carding, combing, drawing, doubling, and spinning of cotton, and the methods of dyeing and preparing goods for the market (1894)
Lister, John, 1920- · London, C. Lockwood · leaf 22
series of spikes, which have the effect of combing outall lumps in the cotton. It will be obvious that less damage is doneto the staple than by the action of beaters, besides which, much dirtis extracted. The cotton is finally delivered in loose, fleecy layers,which are passed on to the opener in… … Fig. 2.—Hopper Feeder (in upper room) applied to Opener (on ground floor). now adapted to assist in cleaning the material. It is no new thingfor those in the trade to be reminded that the present machines are,with few exceptions, of the same type as those which were in usenearly a century ago, the…
Cotton manufacture
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