The useful arts and manufactures of Great Britain (1861)
Tomlinson, Charles, 1808-1897, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 82
much greater quantity than it would do if the sliver were left to fall loosely into the can. Further improvements have lately been made, by which the sliver is regularly and beautifully coiled in the can, and compressed at the same time, but without at all stretching the sliver. KO VING. By the… … by drawing merely, for if this were attempted it would break ; a slight twist is therefore given, which, by condensing the fibres, allows the draAving to pro- * By a recent invention, in case of the breaking of any sliver, or the emptying of a can, so as to lessen the number of the slivers, the…
Textile printing · Textile industry · Textile fabrics
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