Cotton weaving: its development, principles, and practice . enty-two inches. The method ofdriving is shown, and is so simple as to require no descrip-tion. The reel being in its normal form of a hexagon hasthe threads attached by the reeler, as the attendant iscalled, the reel is started, and the yarn reeled in hanks of840 yards. In straight reeling the hank is divided by tiesinto seven leas of 120 yards = 840, this being mostly thecase for the eastern trade. When the hank is completedthe arms of the reel are pressed together, as shown in theillustration, and the hank slided off at the end. Th
Cotton weaving: its development, principles, and practice . enty-two inches. The method ofdriving is shown, and is so simple as to require no descrip-tion. The reel being in its normal form of a hexagon hasthe threads attached by the reeler, as the attendant iscalled, the reel is started, and the yarn reeled in hanks of840 yards. In straight reeling the hank is divided by tiesinto seven leas of 120 yards = 840, this being mostly thecase for the eastern trade. When the hank is completedthe arms of the reel are pressed together, as shown in theillustration, and the hank slided off at the end. Thespeciality in the machine shown is in the facility it affordsfor doffing. In fig. 156 is shown the Coleby reel. As comparedwith ordinary reels it presents some considerable diffe-rences in appearance. The first alteration shows that theframe of the machine has been dispensed with, havingbeen substituted by a central stand, the reels projectingfrom this on each side. This change permits much freeruse of the space beneath the frame, and facilitates doffing. « 266 COTTON WEAVING. very greatly. One shaft drives the four reels upon onestand, through and by means of two short shafts carryinga pulley for each reel. On each extremity of these shaftsis a small driving pulley from which the reels are drivenby a fast pulley upon the axle of each reel. There is noloose pulley, as the reels are driven by means of a slackstrap, which has its tension adjusted to drive the reel bymeans of a small bowl carried upon the extremity of thestarting lever ; this lever also carries a brake which isput out of .action when the reel is started, and broughtinto work when it is stopped. By this simple arrange-ment the starting and stopping of the reel is instan-taneously performed with the greatest ease. The speedof the reel is also regulated by the same means, as whenthe strap is brought to a proper tension it runs at fullspeed ; at half tension it runs slowly in order to permit ofthe winding off of cop
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