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T w#* V WW | v i*K/V 7 WXV LiUU*Another- principle which is employed for carding, and which it is intended should be considered as one of the grounds of this Patent, is that of a series of revolving cylinders, whose touching surfaces move the same way, but have each a swifter motion than its predecessor: so that if the cylinder a, Fig. 10, go round once per second, b should revolve one and a half or twice in the same time; c two or three times, c, according to the progression that may have been adopted. By this system the surface on which it is chosen to lay a given quantity of woolly matter is enlarged indefinitely, and the woolly matter thus opened so completely that, if desired, no two hairs shall .touch each other: and by adding another series of cylinders C f g h, with motions progressively shiver, the same wool can then be again collected into as small a compass as may be required for the purpose of forming it into a ribbon or large thread; and thus itmay
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Repertory of Arts and Manufactures
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Jun 01, 1808
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