Draw frames and fly frames : being a practical treatise on the above machines (1898)
Thornley, T. (Thomas) · Manchester : A. Heywood · leaf 55
d weighted rollers covered with flannelbetween the first and second, and again between the thirdand fourth rollers. Fig. 13 illustrates a recently inventedtype of clearer which has been adopted by Messrs. Dobson& Barlow with very good results. It consists of twoflannel covered rollers. One of… … J Fig. 13. be attached thereto. The other roller is not drivenpositively, but simply rests on the third and back rollers.This is revolved by friction exactly in the same mannerthat the clearers of a mule work. Another pair of patentclearers, made by the same firm, are shown in Fig. 14. 45
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