The textile industries : a practical guide to fibres, yarns & fabrics in every branch of textile manufacture, including preparation of fibres, spinning, doubling, designing, weaving, bleaching, printing, dyeing and finishing (1910)
Murphy, William S · London : The Gresham Publishing Company · leaf 154
flat iron table or bed is fixed.Across it a set of heavy iron rollers depend on bearings in the sidesof the frame. The rollers are geared with a revolving and oscillatingmotion. At the fore end of the machine the lap of wool is hung, andthe feed apparatus draws forward as much of the sheet as… … Fig. 92.—Bowing Ftlt 124 THE PREPARATION OF TEXTILE FIBRES oscillating from side to side, pressing, drawing, rolling the fibrescloser and closer, till what was but a soft fluffy sheet of wool only afew seconds before has become a solid piece of hard felt. It will be observed that only a small…
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