Elementary treatise on the finishing of white, dyed, and printed cotton goods . no great importance except with cottongoods, ought to be taken into consideration, forwith wool, an elastic fabric, the needles are set at anangle so that the cloth, when underneath thechain may not fall. With cotton goods it is diffe-rent: if the needles are fixed obliquely they makelarger holes and the selvages are easily torn;this drawback is remedied by placing the needlesor the pins straight, and covering them with akind of envelope which grips the cloth. Fig. 34, page 150 A, has a simple return ofthe chain an
Elementary treatise on the finishing of white, dyed, and printed cotton goods . no great importance except with cottongoods, ought to be taken into consideration, forwith wool, an elastic fabric, the needles are set at anangle so that the cloth, when underneath thechain may not fall. With cotton goods it is diffe-rent: if the needles are fixed obliquely they makelarger holes and the selvages are easily torn;this drawback is remedied by placing the needlesor the pins straight, and covering them with akind of envelope which grips the cloth. Fig. 34, page 150 A, has a simple return ofthe chain and fig. 35, page 150 A, double return,the piece comes out from below the stenter andcan be simply folded or rolled. In these two 152 FINISHING IN GENERAL. drawings the entering is badly represented, thepiece passing below the workwoman so that shecan guide it in front. The disposition should besimilar to that shewn in fig. 37, page 152 A. As these stenters take up a great deal ofroom many combinations to economize space havebeen tried; for this reason, circular stenters have. Fig. 36. Circular stenter with needles. been constructed, a type of which is given fig. 36,page 152. The circumference of the large drum is formedof steam chests, connected with each other, andwhich receive the steam by the axis of the the outer side of the chests are fitted chainswith pins or clips. This kind of stenter renders r
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