Hackling Machine
Page 1 of 1, a sample page, at reduced quality. Open the document to read it in full.
A short dictionary entry from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary describing a hackling machine for dressing short or cut flax. It explains how paired rotating rollers fitted with alternating rigid hackles and brushes, together with outer brushing cylinders, process flax fed from a trough, with a grate and endless carrier removing refuse. A figure shows side and end elevations of the machine.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
(A free account is all you need)
From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
Have missing pages or a better copy of this document, or another document to share? Contributing documents »