A supplement to Ures Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, : containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice. . ny part of the mule, and allowsa-larger driving strap, or l)elt, to be used, which in low rooms is of considerable result of these various improvements is the production of one of the most perfoct spin-ning machines now in the trade. For spinning very coarse numbers, say G\s, they have patented an arrangement, by whichthe rotation of the spindles can be stopped, and the operation of baekiug-off performed,during the going out of the carriage, thus
A supplement to Ures Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, : containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice. . ny part of the mule, and allowsa-larger driving strap, or l)elt, to be used, which in low rooms is of considerable result of these various improvements is the production of one of the most perfoct spin-ning machines now in the trade. For spinning very coarse numbers, say G\s, they have patented an arrangement, by whichthe rotation of the spindles can be stopped, and the operation of baekiug-off performed,during the going out of the carriage, thus effecting a considerable saving of time. 426 COTTON MANUFACTUEE. Some of their mules are working in the mills of Messrs. Thomas Mason & Son, Ashton-under-Lvne, and are making five to five-and-a-half draws per minute, the length of thestretch being 67 inches—a speed and length of stretch never previously following is a description of one of those excellent mules:—Fig. 208 is a plan view, f(j. 209 a transverse section, and fg. 210 an end view of somuch of a mule as is requisite for its illustration here. 208. As there are many parts which are common to all mules, most of which have been pre-viously dcsci-ibed in the notice of the hand mule, we shall therefore only notice the moreprominent portions of the self-acting part of the mule. Among such parts arc : the framingof the headstock a ; the carriage n ; the rovings c ; the supports d of the roller beam e ;the fluted rollers a ; the top rollers a; the spindles b ; the carriage wheels 6; the slips, orrails, 6, on which tEey move; the faller wire 6; the counter-faller wire b*. The following COTTON MANUFACTURE. 427 are the parts chiefly connected with the self-acting portion of the mule :—The fast pulley f,the loose pulley f, the bevels f* and f, which give motion to the fluted rollers; the back,or drawing-out shaft g, wheels g and g, by which,-through the shaft g^ and wheels G* andG^, motion is communicated to t
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