Slubbing dyeing is preferred to yarn dyeing, for the dyestuff penetrates the loosely twisted roving, and if unevenly dyed, the subsequent operations equalize most thoroughly the irregularities in color.
A number of these rolls are then drawn out by another machine twelve times as long as they were before and twisted together on a slubbing frame.
The principle of the machine is in other respects the same as that of the slubbing frame.
It was Byrd Boyle, one of the mill hands who ran a slubbing machine, and he held in his arms (because they were too young to walk so far) twins, a boy and a girl.
It was beautiful to see how, forgetting himself and his sermon, he prepared to entertain, in his quaint way, this slave to theslubbing machine.
A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.
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.
This twist forms no part of the twist of the finished yarn, for the slubbing will be twisted in the contrary direction, when spun afterwards in the jenny or mule.
He next makes the spindles revolve, while he pushes in the carriage slowly, so as to coil the slubbing upon the spindle into a conical cop.
Illustration: 1213] The slubbing machine, or billy, reduces the separate rolls of cardings into a continuous slightly twisted spongy cord, which is sometimes called a roving.
In order to increase the uniformity of the roving or strand of cotton, the ends from two of the slubbing rovings are conducted together through the rollers of the machine.
One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.
Slubbing billy, orSlubbing machine, the machine by which slubs are formed.
The intermediate frame comes between the slubbing and roving frames and is of similar construction to the slubber, but has a larger number of spindles and smaller tubes.
Instead of having cans put at the back, the slubbing tubes are mounted vertically in a creel, passed in pairs through the rollers, and drawn down to a smaller diameter than a single slubbing.
Cotton in cans, from the final head of drawing, is transferred to the slubbing frame, by which it is attenuated, slightly twisted, and wound upon spools.
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.
The best plan is undoubtedly to dye the fibre after it has been carded and partly spun into what is known as slubbing or sliver.
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