Two pages from The Textile Mercury of 27 June 1891 describing a new patent exhaust combined opener and lap machine made by Asa Lees and Co. of Oldham for cotton spinning mills. The text walks through the feed lattice, regulator, porcupine cylinders, pneumatic tube, fan, grid bars, cages, beaters and calender rollers, and illustrates the machine with two engravings. The second page also has a short note on Bombay freight contracts and the end of a bleaching paper on silk bleaching (blueing and sulphur stoving).