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Card Clothing
Card Clothing
Monograph · 69 pages
An International Correspondence Schools instruction text on card clothing, the wire-set foundations that cover carding machine cylinders, doffers and flats in textile mills. It covers flexible wire clothing (foundations, rib-set and twill-set construction, counts, wire gauge, points-per-square-foot calculations), the procedure for clothing cylinders, doffers and flats, card grinding and burnishing, and metallic and semiflexible clothing. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams of clothing types and machines, and it ends with examination questions for students.
Carding Practices, Cotton and Synthetic
Carding Practices, Cotton and Synthetic
Monograph · 122 pages
A 1955 International Correspondence Schools textbook on carding cotton and synthetic staple on revolving-flat and roller-top cards. It covers card gearing and calculations (actual and mechanical draft, draft constant, doffer and lickerin speeds, production), then the gauges and procedures for setting each part of the card. Later sections cover stripping methods (roll, vacuum, continuous and central waste systems), grinding and maintenance, and quality control: waste tests, sliver testers and charts, evenness testing and nep counts. It includes gearing diagrams for Saco-Lowell and Whitin cards, worked examples and practice problems.
Carding Practices: Wool and Synthetics
Carding Practices: Wool and Synthetics
Monograph · 88 pages
An International Correspondence Schools instruction text on carding wool, worsted and synthetic fibers, written by John K. Stearns with Alfred S. Govin. It covers the automatic feed, the breaker card and metallic breast, the Peralta machine, Apperly and Scotch intermediate feeds, card drive and setting, finisher cards, ring and tape condensers, and production calculations for woolen cards. A final section deals with worsted and synthetic cards, balling heads, sliver calculations, cardroom management and static electricity. The text includes many photographs and line drawings of card components, worked formula examples, practice problems with answers, and examination questions.

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