Spons' dictionary of engineering, civil, mechanical, military, and naval; with technical terms in French, German, Italian, and Spanish (1871)
Spon, Edward, Byrne, Oliver, Spon, Ernest · London, New York : E. & F.N. Spon · leaf 346
t therefore requires to be driven at a higher velocity than the carding cylinder, and has accordingly a surface speed of 2000 ft. a minute. It thus seizes the cotton from off the teeth of the main carding cylinder A, and throws it against the teeth of the stripper C facing those of the fancy roller… … The cotton is then carried forwards by the carding cylinder to the series of flat cards D D, Fig. 2182, which are made of cast-iron bars faced with card teeth, as shown to a larger scale in Figs. 2183, 2184; these extend the entire width of the machine, and rest at each end upon a cir-
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