Can-Roving Machine
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A short encyclopedia entry from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary describing a can-roving machine used in cotton manufacture. Slivers from cans are drawn through rollers under a weighted pressure and delivered into a rotating can, where a slight twist turns them into roving. The entry includes one line drawing (Fig. 1073) with lettered parts.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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