Cyclopedia of textile work : a general reference library on cotton, woollen and worsted yarn manufacture, weaving, designing, chemistry and dyeing, finishing, knitting, and allied subjects (1907)
Chicago : American school of correspondence · leaf 218
will be uniform, and at the standard; and tomake every yard of sliver weigh exactly the same. (d) To wind the sliver into balls so that it will occupy the leastpossible space, and from which the sliver may be unwound veryeasily when it reaches the drawing frames. 187 170 WOOLEN AND WORSTED SPINNING… … sliver. As no combing machine distributes the long and shortfibers equally throughout the sliver, two fine gill boxes are alwaysused to obtain this result. The arrangement of the drawing off rolls on the Lister or nipcomb produces a sliver in which all the long fibers are on one side and 188 WOOLEN…
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