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 82
Instead of running round the needle cylinder, POWER FRAMES 63 as formerly, the cam cylinder moves to and fro on the needles remain-ing in action, knitting the flat piece. To keep the thread guide suffi-ciently far in advance of the descending needles to bring the threadwithin catching distance,… … Fig. 524.—Circular Knitting Frame knitters, the adjustments and the lifting of the needles, as well as thereciprocating motion of the cam cylinder when making the flat web,are all done by hand; but the circular frames mostly employed auto-matically perform those actions. An American Knitter.—The…
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