Specification of the Patent granted to Mr. Richard Varley for his Improved Method of Carding, Roving, and Spinning Cotton, Wool, and Silk
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Text of the 1796 patent specification of Richard Varley of Bolton-in-the-Moors, Lancashire, for machinery to card, rove, and spin cotton, wool, and silk. It describes a main carding cylinder with two doffing cylinders covered in striped leather cards, doffing knives, a feeder, and drawing rollers. It also covers the spindles, flyers, lifters, bobbins and springs of the roving and spinning frame. A plate with five figures of the machinery accompanies the text.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1799
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 5
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