Carding Machine
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A short encyclopedia entry defining the carding machine used in cotton manufacture. It describes the wire-toothed cylinders that comb out the fibres, the doffer and doffing-knife that remove the fleece, and the narrowing of the film into card ends or slivers ready for drawing or doubling.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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