Knitting Machinery
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A five-page encyclopedia article from Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics on knitting machinery as of the 1880s. It covers the manufacture and gauging of spring-beard knitting needles, hosiery yarn designation, and hand knitting machines (straight-bed, circular, and single-needle types such as the Lamb, Bickford and Hinkley machines). It then describes power machines, both straight and circular, the Tompkins upright rotary machine with its output figures, and the Tompkins cone-winder. Illustrated with engravings and diagrams of needle action.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1889
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 5
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