Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 387
show material improvement overolder devices. The flax-straw is fed into the machin(\ one end always overlapping the preced-ing one. Heavy fluted rollers flatten the tubular stalks, which action does not spoil the fiber,but only takes the rcisistance out of the straw. Then the flax proceeds to the… … FiQ. 6.Fios. .5, 6.—Kents flanging-machine. FLAX-MACHINES. 367 lows the wood to fall out, and also prevents the outer skin from becoming crushed or cut. asis the case with the needle-points, or the series of fluted rollers—run at a high speed—ot othermachines The fiber then passes to the second…
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