Cotton mill processes and calculations. An elementary text book for the use of textile schools and for home study (1899)
Tompkins, Daniel Augustus, 1851-1914 · Charlotte, N.C., The author · leaf 28
t. This isaccomplished by varying the speed of feed rolls E ac-cording as the sheet passing through them is thick orthin. These rolls are driven by a pair of cone pulleys.The mechanism for varying the speed is connected with ashifter operating on the cone belt. This mechanism issomewhat… … 18 the width of the sheet, the plate mimediately over thisspot is depressed, and operates to shift the beh so thatthe feed will go slower. A thin spot operates in the re-verse way, so that a thick sheet feeds slower and a thinsheet feeds faster, thus insuring a uniform quantity pass-ing through per…
Cotton growing · Cotton manufacture
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