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Title: Cotton weaving: its development, principles, and practice
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Marsden, Richard, 1837-1903
Subjects: Cotton weaving
Publisher: London, G. Bell & sons (etc., etc.)
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city of production may occasionally exceed that of theconsumption of the establishment. In these cases itsometimes becomes economical to turn the reels uponstraight reeling and sell the yarn. In this case there willbe required a short-bundle yarn press such as that shownin fig. 158, a very excellent automatic press invented bythe gentleman whose improved reel has just been de-scribed. Ordinarily the yarn bundling press consists of a smalloblong table and a number of vertical bars affixed againsteach of the longer sides, so as to enclose on two sides acubic space, the ends being open. To the back bars areattached a third series, hinged to them, so as to be broughtover to those in front. The yarn having been placed inposition, the covering bars are brought down and the tableraised by the usual means, the motive power being eithermanual or steam-power, which may be most convenient.The yarn having been pressed, the press is wound down,the bars lifted, and the bundle taken out. This is the
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270 COTTON WEAVING. ordinary method, upon which Mr. Coleby has effectedgreat improvements, as he has made the whole automatic,so that when the yarn has been placed in position theattendant has only to start the press, and the bars areautomatically brought down, self-locked, and the bundlepressed, when the attendant simply ties the cords andreverses the action, and the press, running down, releasesand lifts the top bars, leaving nothing more to do than toremove the bundle and commence the process anew. Theimprovements consist of the introduction into the backvertical bars, which are made hollow for the purpose, of aseries of rack rods, whilst the top bars, also made hollow,receive a corresponding series of locking rods. A connec-tion is formed between the two series by means of a sectorwheel. When the top bars are brought down into theposition for pressing, a coiled spring, with which each issupplied, shoots these rods into the holes prepared fortheir reception, and thus firmly locks t

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