Recent cotton mill construction and engineering (1894)
Nasmith, Joseph · London : J. Heywood · leaf 285
thesame time lay up the opposite strand in the vacantplace for about four feet, care being taken to keepthe turn in the strand. Tie the two strands tem-porarily. This we call the No. 1 strand. The nextto it is No. 2 strand, which must not be workeduntil No. 3 is finished in the same manner as No.1… … Fig. 119. to equal lengths of about a foot. Remove thefriction bands (or outside threads), and tie a doubleoverhand knot on the tension strands, laying eachend over twice with the marlinspike or splicingpin, and finish ofi by interlocking each end throughthe centre of the rope. No blacklead should…
Textile factories -- Design and construction · Cotton manufacture · Cotton machinery
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