Cyclopedia of textile work : a general reference library on cotton, woolen and worsted yarn manufacture, weaving, designing, chemistry and dyeing, finishing, knitting, and allied subjects (1907)
Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 30
ntry in much better shape. The cotton is completely covered by the bagging and bound by eleven or twelve ties. The Egyptian bale (Fig. 5) is compressed to a density of about forty-five pounds to the cubic foot, and weighs on an average seven hundred pounds. Peruvian cotton is received in smaller… … turers and cotton planters. One of these is called the Bessonette or “round-lap ” system. By this system the lint as it comes from the gin is blown into a reservoir or bat former, where it is con- verted into an even, continuous sheet. Thissheet is wound around an arbor or core under pressure, the…
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