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Modern Cotton Spinning Machinery, Its Principles and Construction

Chapter 28: ESTABLISHED 1790. DOBSON & BARLOW, BOLTON, Lancashire.
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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.

ESTABLISHED 1790.
DOBSON & BARLOW,
BOLTON, Lancashire.

THE OLDEST MACHINE MAKERS IN THE TRADE.

PATENTEES AND MAKERS OF ALL KINDS OF

MACHINERY

On the Latest and Most Approved Principles

FOR

PREPARING, SPINNING & DOUBLING

COTTON,

Cotton Waste, Wool, Worsted, and Vigonia Yarns.

SEE NEXT PAGE.

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PROPRIETORS OF

SPECIAL PATENTS

In the following Machines:—

Double-Action Knife Roller Cotton Gin, suitable for all classes of Cotton.

Vertical Conical Beater Openers.

Double and Single Openers, with or without Lap Machine.

Double and Single Scutchers, with or without pedal motion.

Grinding Machines and Grinding Rollers on our improved principle.

Carding Engines on Wellman’s principle, with our patented improvements and additional motions.

New Patent Comb Box.

Carding Engines with revolving flats, with our improvements.

McConnell & Higginson’s Patent Flat Grinding Apparatus, for grinding Revolving Flats from their working surfaces.

Carding Engines, “Simplex,” with revolving flats, with our Patent Automatic Flexible Bend Adjustment, 110 flats, 44 constantly at work. Flats set to the cylinder to the two-thousandth part of an inch. Patent Adjustable Pedestal mathematically correct, for adjusting cylinder in any direction.

Carding Engines, with rollers and clearers, specially adapted for waste and for coarse spinning, with or without Patent Condensers.

Sliver Lap Machines and Derby Doublers.

Heilmann’s Cotton Combing Machines, of 6 or 8 heads, with our improvements for various kinds of Cotton.

Patent Draw Frame and Ribbon Lap Machine combined, which gives increased out-turn, causes less waste and less wear to the Combers.

Drawing, Slubbing, Intermediate, Roving and Jack Frames.

Patent Self-Acting Mules for spinning fine or coarse counts.

Patent Self-Acting Mules for spinning Vigonia yarns.

Ring Throstles and Doublers for Cotton, Silk, Combed Wool and Merino Yarns, with our patented cork-cushion flexible Spindle; also with the “Rabbeth” or other Spindle.
D. & B.’s Patent Automatic Anti-Ballooning Motion, its application economising almost 10 per cent. spindle space; can be applied to existing Frames of any make.

Mule Twiners on our recently improved principle.

Patent Quick Traverse Drum Winding Frames, with or without Stop Motion to each end, for making parallel or conical bobbins, or parallel bobbins with tapered ends.

Improved Cop Winding Frame.

Patent Gassing Frames, with or without Patent Quick Traverse Motion, for winding on to wood or paper tubes, or with Patent Tapering Motion.

Cop Reels on Coleby’s principle, with our Patent: Instantaneous Stop Motion for stopping the swift when a thread breaks, or when the required length is put on the swift.

SPECIAL APPLIANCES FOR COVERING ALL KINDS OF ROLLERS, CLEARERS AND FLATS.

Also Makers of many other Machines and Tools.

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF THE
Patented Cork-Cushion Flexible Spindle,
WITH OR WITHOUT THE
DOBSON-MARSH SELF-LUBRICATING ATTACHMENT,

For Spinning and Doubling. Will run either twist or weft way by simply changing the position of the bands.

PERFECT LUBRICATION. LIGHT RUNNING.

Stoppages of Spindles not required whilst Re-Oiling. No Pumping out of Dirty Oil. Oil Cups can be taken off, dirty oil removed, cups re-filled and attached whilst Spindles are in motion.
The Dobson-Marsh Lubrication Attachment can also be applied to Rabbeth Spindles.

ALSO MANUFACTURERS OF MANY OTHER KNOWN KINDS OF SPINDLES.

Particulars of Special Improvements in Cotton Preparing and Spinning Machinery, also Plans and Estimates, may be had on application to

DOBSON & BARLOW, Kay Street Works, BOLTON.
Manchester Office: 2, ST. ANN’S PLACE.

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