History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) (1922)
Boston : Frank P. Bennett · leaf 51
ng its progress, graduallywork the fibres into a parallel position. Asa result of this manipulation between the twowire clothed surfaces, both moving in thesame direction but at different rates of speed,the cotton which entered the carding ma-chine in laps one-half an inch in thickness isnow seen… … HON. EZEKIEL A. STRAW Mill Agent of Amoskeag Manufacturing Company From Dec. 26, 1856 to Dec. 23, 1878 ing has kept back the small and brokenfibres. This thin gauzy web, several feet broad,now moves on through a trumpet shapedcylinder in which it is narrowed down toa breadth of about an inch. This…
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