Getting down the nearly vertical wall to the end of the sliver and up the other side were the main difficulties, and they seemed all but insurmountable.
To me the edge of that blue sliver was then all the world.
This process is repeated several times; and at last when the final sliver comes out, although it looks almost the same as when it came from the carding-machine, its fibers are parallel.
The sliver is not uniform; even now its fibers are not entirely parallel, and it is as weak as wet tissue paper.
The result is that when the sliver comes out from the rollers, its fibers are much straighter.
If the sliver breaks, the support falls, and this stops the machine.
For instance, the sliver is so light that it seems to have hardly any weight, but it balances a tiny support.
And I was to go to the codfish ball tonight, and now I can't, for I never could dance with a sliver in my foot.
Sliver after sliverof the wood fell on the ground.
There ought to have been a sliver of moon, but the wind and dust hid it.
For several nights to come the worst the moon could do would be to show a sliver of silver crescent for an hour or two.
Saturated with resins, the sliver was practically incorruptible; and time had only served to harden its lance-like point and edge.
Run the sliver through them from end to end, and let the steam escape and use immediately, as a roast potato quickly becomes soggy and bitter.
When you can pass a sharpened hardwood sliverthrough them, they are done, and should be raked out at once.
The cotton sliver prevents the calender rolls L and M from touching each other.
The quality ofsliver produced by these machines cannot be surpassed; a great saving in waste "single" and roller laps is effected, and production is increased.
As long as the sliver remains between the rolls they are kept apart and there is no circuit.
If the sliver breaks, the rolls touch and the machine stops instantly.
Machines stop: 1st--When sliver breaks at back or a can runs out.
When the sliver breaks or a can runs out the rolls come together and the frame knocks off.
The sliver hit Stacy on his bare arm and drew blood.
Another bullet sang past them, clipping a sliver from the side of the dugout.
Durgin pulled the sliver of wood to shreds with his teeth.
Old Christopher tucked a sliver of plug into his cheek.
Then he looked up from the sliverthat he had been whittling absent-mindedly, and fixed keen eye on Straight.
He even drove a sliver from the wood-box over the latch of the door.
Yet again, in order to obtain a thread or yarn of sufficient fineness, it was found necessary to perform some of the attenuation of the cotton sliver as it left the drawing frame and before it reached the final spinning process.
Sufficient be it to say that the combed cotton leaves the detaching rollers in a thin silky-looking fleece which is at once gathered up into a round sliver or strand and conducted down a long guide-plate towards the end of the machine.
The slivers, which in the sliver lap machine are laid side by side so as to form a lap, have a tendency to show an individuality so as to present a more or less thick and thin sheet to the action of the nippers of the comber.
Finally, the sliver of cotton is carried upward, as shown in the illustration (Fig.
In this case, eighteen cans are placed behind the machines, and the sliver from each can is conducted through an aperture in the back guide-plate designed to prevent entanglements of sliver from passing forward.
Their duties are to carry on the operation of making the sliver of cotton finer or thinner until it is ready for the final process of spinning, and incidentally to add to the uniformity and cleanliness of the thread of cotton.
In the case under discussion the slivers from the card are taken to the special drawing frame and treated by it, and then passed along to the sliver lap machine as just described.
The sliver of cotton, as it leaves the card, is by no means sufficiently uniform in weight per yard for the production of a uniform and strong finished thread.
When the combing is adopted, it precedes the drawing frame, which has previously been described, and the cans of sliver from the comber are taken directly to the draw-frame.
As a matter of fact, the unpractised eye cannot see any difference between the sliver or soft rope of cotton as it reaches, the drawing frame and as it leaves the frame.
Several slivers of cotton from the Card were put up together at the back, and by means of four pairs of drawing rollers, were reduced to the thickness of one sliver (see the description in chapter vi.
No such difference can be perceived in thesliver at the drawing frame.
Chapter Twenty I awoke as a sliverof sun flashed through the stone doorway of the room and forest birds erupted around me in celebration.
A tiny sliver of uneasiness was slipping into my head-over-heels trust, the camel's nose under the tent.
He was laughing and chewing a sliver of toothpick.
The officer bit on a sliver of toothpick that he held in his thin lips.
Once more it was flattened into a lap, given to a comber that felt out its fibres, removing with superhuman precision those for the finer fabric too short, thrusting it forth again in another filmy sliver ready for the drawing frames.
Found it myself on Adamant-that's the parent asteroid from which this sliver I live on was busted off a few millennia ago.
It is a true crescent, a sliver of stone with Vly's operation in its very center.
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove.
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
The Dartle splashed among the reeds and whined Over the willow-roots, and a long sliver Of caked and slobbered foam crept up the bank.
From wooing he jested with her, snipped the blown Strands of her hair, and tied them with a sliver Cut from his own head.
McTulloch, seriously wounded by a fragment of shell, had hardly gained the deck ere another sliver of steel had cut away his means of descent.
One of the latter had been struck on the temple with a sliver of steel that had entered the narrow slit in the armoured walls.
A sliver of steel, hurled to an immense height, had in falling completely penetrated the light metal canopy and had inflicted a severe wound on the lad who was standing beneath.
The working of the machine is as follows: the slubbing or sliver is placed in the space between C and D rather tightly, so that it will not move about.
A nice sliver was waved dripping on Joe's plate, which Joe proceeded to eat desperately, all in one mouthful.
I'm sure Mr. Joe could stand just a weeny sliver more.
And he drew a sliver of driftwood pine from under his jacket.
In a second or two the sliver was ablaze, and the explorers plunged into a narrow passage whose floor sloped upward swiftly.
A little cut is worse than none; go deep enough to liberate the sliver so that it may be removed with the splinter forceps.
If the wound was caused by a sliver of wood and the sliver still remains in the wound remove it by making an incision with your bistoury.
Every carder or spinner knows that where an injury comes to the sliver because the sliver is soft, but partially condensed and very susceptible to injury, the injury is magnified and multiplied in every successive process.
Virtually the field was long since abandoned for an accurate quick-working motion that should be applicable to any and all the machines and to every sliver or strand of the machine.
And I disgustedly threw away another little sliver of wood I had picked off the tree-trunk.
And the accomplished old poser calmly whittled away at the sliver of wood in his hand.
The Second Instance was not less remarkable then the First; for I found, when a Spark went out, nothing but a very small thin long sliver of Iron or Steel, unmelted at either end.
