Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry . and, the hemp is then thrown intoa box and subjected to a further hackling pro-cess by machinery. This is effected first by aspreader, a sort of endless comb formed bysteel teeth about three inches long set in anendless band, which revolves over drums. Thehemp is fed to the spreader at one end and isgathered into a loose strand called a sliver at the other
Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry . and, the hemp is then thrown intoa box and subjected to a further hackling pro-cess by machinery. This is effected first by aspreader, a sort of endless comb formed bysteel teeth about three inches long set in anendless band, which revolves over drums. Thehemp is fed to the spreader at one end and isgathered into a loose strand called a sliver at the other end. Thence it passes over drawing-boards, not unlike the spreadersin construction, but which move faster, reduce 250 COEDAGE. the size of the sliver, arrange the fibers thatcompose it smoothly side by side, and deliver itat last in a continuous band, which falls natu-rally into coils in a box as it leaves the ma-chine. When the box is full, the sliver issevered and the box is wheeled away to the this way is commonly known as patent cord-age as distinguished from the old-fashionedirregularly laid varieties. The bobbin-stand and the perforated platesjust described are at one end of the rope-walk, a name appropriately derived from the. P own. 3.—A Rope-Walk. A, bobbin-frame; B, yarns leading from the bobbins; C, a row of perforated plates (see also Fig. 4); D, strandsor readies ; E, winch, similar to C, Fig. 2 ; F, a fixed pin, to which the readies (f) are attached when hard car moves with the arrow. K, point of attachment for the readies when about to be laid up ; I, readies reach-ing from end to end of the walk ; H, the top (see also D, Fig. 2); G is the finished rope. The car moves with thearrow. spinner, where it is again passed overtoothed brands, which further reduce it, andsuffer it, when it contains the proper numberof fibers, to enter a tube, on emerging fromwhich it receives a twist to the right and is atonce converted into yarn and wound uponla
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