Machinery for Treating Silk Waste, Part 1
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An 1874 article from the engineering journal Engineering on the utilisation of silk waste, with a page of engraved illustrations of machines made by Greenwood and Batley of Leeds. It describes the classes of waste (damaged cocoons, knubs, throwsters' waste), softening and degumming, and the opening, filling and dressing machines that produce graded draifts. It then explains the screw gill-box spreader and the sett or slivering machine, which draw the silk into laps and slivers for spinning. The article ends with "To be continued".
- Type
- Article
- Date
- July 3, 1874
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
- Archive notes
- Reduced to 85% to fit on standard paper.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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