Flax, Machinery for Preparing and Spinning
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An encyclopedia article from Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics describing the industrial preparation and spinning of flax. It follows the process from pulling, retting, breaking and scutching through hackling (by hand and machine), sorting, spreading and drawing frames, roving, and wet spinning with hot-water troughs. It ends by touching on warping and the lease for linen yarn. Many pages of engraved engineering figures show gearing, rollers, fallers, bobbin lifters and spinning frames, with text keyed to their lettered parts.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1889
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 14
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