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 723
general styles of apparatus. With one type, the cloth is passedrapidly over red hot copper plates orrollers. Contact with the hot metallicsurfaces causes the fine nap to takefire, but the cloth moves too quicklyfor the cloth itself to bum. The othertype of singeing machine draws thecloth over two… … Fig. 53. Singeing iVlacliine. which is being sheared. Threads, lint,nap, etc., are brushed off by specialbrushes placed between each set ofshear blades. This foreign matter isremoved from the machine by a fanand conveyed outside or into a dustroom. The shearing machine removes allof the coarse…
Cotton manufacture · Textile factories
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