An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton, etc.
A wooden instrument used inscutching flax and hemp.
An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton; etc.
These power mills are called scutching mills; scutching means cleaning and breaking.
This last fan is suppressed in many blowing machines, as the scutching arms supply a sufficient stream of air.
In the figure we see the feed-cloth, the scutching barrel, the squirrel suction, and spreading cage, and the rollers for coiling up the lap.
These clamps or holders are, when charged with the material, placed in the scutching machine, as shown at e e e in figs.
The chief objects aimed at by the comber are:--To extract all fibres below a certain length; to make the fibres parallel; and to extract any fine impurities that may have escaped the scutching and carding processes.
On this account it is sometimes termedscutching tow.
He got his weapon into position and adjusted a belt of cartridges, working as coolly as if he were arranging the machinery of the Green Loaney Scutching Mill.
I was, of course, quite willing to go with Cahoon if he would really show me a citizen soldier in a scutching mill.
We reached the Green Loaney Scutching Mill at about half-past five o'clock.
For ordinary water-retted flax two operations are required, first breaking and then scutching, and these are done either by hand labour or by means of small scutching or lint mills, driven either by water or steam power.
By this means, not only is all the slimy glutinous adherent matter thoroughly separated, but the subsequent processes of breaking and scutching are much facilitated.
At this point advantage is taken of fine dry weather to gather up the flax, which is now ready for scutching, but the fibre is improved by stooking and stacking it for some time before it is taken to the scutching mill.
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