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 683
ye-liquor. Gen-erally, round soup kettles were em-ployed, with a capacity of 5 to 100gallons, depending on the size of thedyehouse. For some purposes of dyeextraction, closed pressure kettles, orautoclaves were used in which the dye-wood could be heated with water underpressure to a temperature… … Fig. 4. Indigo IVIiil. (Cylinder Form.) atmospheric boiling point. The dyerof the present day knows little ornothing of such apparatus. Wherewood dyes are still employed, it isnow customary for the dyer to usenot the raw wood, but an extract pre-pared by the color maker; and allthat is required of…
Cotton manufacture · Textile factories
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