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A practical treatise on dyeing and calico-printing : including the latest inventions and improvements : also a description of the origin, manufacture, uses, and chemical properties of the various animal, vegetable, and mineral substances employed in these arts : with an appendix comprising definitions of chemical terms, with tables of weights, measures, thermometers, hydrometers, &c. (1860)

Parnell, Edward A. (Edward Andrew), Macfarlane, Robert, 1815-1883 · New York : John Wiley · leaf 265

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239 BLEACHING OF WOOL. which is driven by the wheel d, and thus insures the motion of the cylinder c1, in its action upon the cloth, which, at this part, experiences a greater resistance, owing to the effect of the fulling longitudinally, d, is a shoe-piece, so formed that the cloth cannot get… … to arms e*, fitted with plummer-blocks, which turn upon the shaft of the cylinder c1, and thus connect the cylinder with the shoe, in such a manner that whatever motion the cylin- der may receive, the shoe will still remain in contact with it. The form and action of these shoes may be best…

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