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 31
e setting point—an engine-marked indication, with fullexplanation, shows the amount of setting. The dial is in divisionsof the fiftieths of an inch, and each of these again represents yjfy „parts of an inch of the flats downward movement. (Truly, cardingmust be comparatively easy in its operation… … 18 COTTON MANUFACTURE. inch, which seems a figure aUiiost too small for comprehension, butso it is—a marvellous piece of mechanism ! The carding on thismachine ensures the most positive uniformity in yarns. Noatmospheric disturbance can interfere with the laps, which can becarded the full width…
Cotton manufacture
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