How to build, equip and operate a cotton mill in the United States (1913)
Frank P. Bennett & Co · Boston, New York [etc.] F. P. Bennett & company, inc · leaf 224
reader. Re-ferring now to Figure 1 at F, it willbe seen that the distance from theheel of one flat to the heel of the nextflat is one and three-quarter inches,and by close observation, it can beseen that the flats assume AN ANGULAR POSITIONrelative to the cylinder. The edge ofthe flat, called the… … Figure 1. Portion of Revolving Flat Card. gradual with the tops set at 11-1,000of an inch, as when set at 13-1,000, al-so that more combing action was re-ceived from more carding surface;so progressive setting was abolished.This has all been forgotten, but manywriters and carders would have usdo…
Cotton manufacture · Textile factories
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