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Title: Instruction book on ring spinning

Author: Francis L. Lincoln

Release Date: August 13, 2010 [EBook #33424]

Language: English

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INSTRUCTION BOOK

ON

RING SPINNING

BY

FRANCIS L. LINCOLN.

WARREN, MASS.
HERALD PRINTING COMPANY.
1885.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885,
By FRANCIS L. LINCOLN,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
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PREFACE.

The object of this little book is to give help and instruction to
those who are engaged in this department of mill work. It imparts that
knowledge which only years of thorough study and observation can give.
It has been carefully prepared by an experienced Spinner, who has
given years of study to it, in order to benefit and help those who are
interested in the Spinning department.

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FRANCIS L. LINCOLN, Author.
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CONTENTS.

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1. The First Thing to do when going into a strange room to take
charge.

2. To see that your Draughts, Twists and Travelers are right,
etc.

3. How to pack Yarn closely on the Bobbin.

4. To see that your Thread Guides are

5. About Spindles, Rings, and Steel Rolls.

6. How Top Rolls should be kept in order to make good yarn weight
on top rolls, etc.

7. Bands; how they should be run, etc.

8. What to do when you have long staple Cotton.

9. What Twists should be in the hank roving, and why.

10. How Roving should be when run double, and how to get it
single.

11. How to run colored Roving double on spinning frames.

12. How Waste should be run through the lappers, etc.

13. How to prove that uneven work is not made on Spinning Frames.

14. How bunches can be made on Spinning Frames an