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Modern Cotton Spinning Machinery, Its Principles and Construction

Chapter 27: CRIGHTON & SONS,
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This practical manual surveys the machinery and methods used to prepare and spin cotton, examining fiber structure and the sequence of operations from ginning, opening, and scutching through carding, combing, drawing, slubbing, mule and ring spinning to finishing processes such as reeling, winding, gassing, and spooling. It emphasizes the mechanical principles behind machine construction, provides numerous detailed illustrations and workshop drawings, and describes common modifications, accessories, and maintenance concerns from a machinist’s viewpoint. Chapters on card clothing, grinding, and stripping, together with appendices and a glossary, supply concise technical reference and hands-on guidance for practitioners and students of textile mechanics.

CRIGHTON & SONS,

Castlefield Iron Works,

MANCHESTER.

ESTABLISHED 1814.

Improved Roller Cotton Mixer.

Improved Crighton Opener, with and without Feed Table.

Patent Exhaust Crighton Openers.

Patent Combined Openers and Lap Machines with or without Exhaust.

Lap Machines, with Patent Leaf Extractor.

Do.,do.,and Cone Regulator.

Do.,do.,and Piano Motion Regulator.

Derby Doublers.

Grinding Machines.

Proprietors by Assignment from W. Higgins & Sons and Sole Makers of
W. HIGGINS & SONS’ PATENT EXPRESS ROVING FRAMES

Higgins’ Drawing Frames.
Higgins’ (Patent Express)
(   Long Collar   )
Slubbing Frames.
Intermediate „   
Roving „   
Jack „   
Merino „   
Silk Dandy „   

The above made with Short Collars if required.

SLUBBING, INTERMEDIATE & ROVING FRAMES, with Mason’s Collars.

SELF-ACTING MULES, PARR’S PRINCIPLE, FOR ALL COUNTS.

See CRIGHTON’S NEW PATENT OPENER before ordering.

References to the above Machines will be found in the Chapters relating to them.

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