International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons Engaged in the Engineering Professions and Trades, Or for Those who Desire Information Concerning Them, Volume 76International Textbook Company, 1906 - Agriculture |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adjusted air-current amount automatic feeder back rolls bars bearings beater belt bobbin boss bottom rolls bracket breaker picker brush cage calender rolls carries cleaning coiler comb comber cone connected construction cushion plate cylinder and doffer cylinder shaft delivered delivery roll detaching roll dirt distance draft draft gear drawing frame drives feed-plate feed-rolls fibers fillet flat card fluted fly frames flyer fringe of cotton front roll gauge gear h grinding roll half lap hank horsepower inches in diameter intermediate knife known lap roll leather lever lifting apron lower machine means method mills moved nipper placed points per square portion position pounds pulley railway head removed revolutions per minute revolving roving frame screw seed shown in Fig side sliver slubber speed spindles spinning frame stop-motion stripping roll surface teeth tion tooth top rolls traverse trunk usually weight wire yarn
Popular passages
Page 6 - as cotton, ramie, flax, and so on. It is a carbohydrate, so called because it is composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, the hydrogen and oxygen being present in the same proportion as in water. It is this cellulose that absorbs and retains moisture, the cellulose in the cotton
Page 28 - middling, barely low middling, strict good ordinary, fully good ordinary. Good ordinary, barely good ordinary, strict ordinary. Ordinary, low ordinary, inferior.
Page 28 - are fair, middling fair, good middling, middling, low 'middling, good ordinary, and ordinary.
Page 3 - in order that any dirt or other foreign matter may be separated and fall through the spaces between the bars. Then it is carried over inclined cleaning, or grate, bars / so that other foreign matter, too heavy to be carried by the
Page 9 - as far as possible, any return of dirt that may be driven through them by the beater. The adjustment is made by means of sliding plates
Page 31 - between the thumb and the first finger of the right hand, and
Page 7 - the age of the cotton, and where it has been stored. The largest amount of natural moisture in cotton is found immediately after it has been picked from the cotton plant, especially
Page 9 - into which the lower parts of the bars loosely fit. These plates can be moved backwards or forwards by a handle
Page 21 - machine that completes the operation of making it into yarn. In addition to attenuating the sliver until the required weight per yard is obtained, the opportunity is also taken, in several machines, to multiply the number of doublings, which not only tends to retain the evenness of the sliver produced at the drawing
Page 8 - capacity of this chamber will prevent any strong current issuing in the opposite direction through the bars, the impurities are