The cops and spindles are inserted in holes in a perforated metal plate, and over them is placed a thin metal plate, technically called the antifloater, whose object is to prevent the cops from becoming detached from the plate.
These may be due to the splashing of oil from the spindles during the process of spinning, or they may be in patches of a comparatively large size over the pieces.
The cops are placed on perforatedspindles as usual, and these on a perforated plate and are kept in place by a plate which is screwed down on them.
By one pair of rollers revolving quicker than another the rove was drawn to the requisite fineness for twisting, which was accomplished by spindles or flyers placed in front of each set of rollers.
The three spindles are driven by a cone pulley having four changes of speed to suit different diameters of taps.
There are in this case three spindles A, B, and C, in Fig.
The drill spindles are fed by hand from the stirrup handles shown, which are weighted to raise up the spindles as soon as they are released.
We now make spindles that are interchangeable, and we do not fit one part to the other.
The office of the shears or bed is to support the headstock and tailstock or tailblock, and to hold them so that the axes of their respective spindles shall be in line in whatever position the tailstock may be placed along the bed.
To maintain the axes of the live and dead spindles in line, they are fitted to a slide or guideway on the shears, the headstock being fixed in position, while the tailstock is adjustable along the shears to suit the length of the work.
A common method of securing emery wheels to their spindles is to fill the bore of the wheel with lead, and bore it out to fit the spindle of the emery grinding machine.
In some planing machine tables a [V]-groove is cut along the centre for the purpose of holding spindles to have featherways or splines cut in them, the method of chucking being shown in Fig.
The tap driving spindles are driven from a central vertical shaft S, driven by bevel-gear B.
The four spindles are driven by means of a gear-wheel engaging with a gear on the central or main driving spindle.
And when these three spindleswere shapen, she made them to be fastened upon the ceiling of the bed.
Also there were two spindles which were as white as any snow, and other that were as red as blood, and other above green as any emerald: of these three colours were the spindles, and of natural colour within, and without any painting.
That model was shown to the visitors of the Tower in the present century; and, by comparison with the vast array of spindles in a modern silk-mill, would seem as inefficient as the flail compared with the thrashing-machine.
The great flax-mill at Leeds would require the flax-cultivation of six thousand acres, to keep its spindles at work for one year.
Sixty years ago only about two million five hundred thousand bales of cotton, or less than the present production of Texas, were annually converted into clothing; the spindles of the world now use over thirteen million bales per annum.
I should say it had--for one half of these spindles are already suspended, and the other half soon must be suspended, if the present state of things continues.
The spindles of our mills are not apt to get out of tram, but in all mills they should be closely watched and frequently tried in this particular.
This makes a very desirable rig for the lower end of mill spindles in any mill, and are fast taking the place of all others.
Already, in 1812, there were between four and five million spindles on this principle, but the inventor continued poor and almost unknown.
One more feature to note on these chairs, that is common to both late Tudor and early Jacobean styles, is the decoration of split spindles or pendants applied to a flat surface.
Though it is dated 1653 it exhibits the split spindles of earlier years, and these are executed with such nice feeling that they accord well with the Italian look of the piece.
The idea immediately occurred to him, that it might be possible to connect a considerable number of upright spindles with the revolutions of one wheel, and thus multiply the power of each spinster.
Each animal, in proportion to its size, is found to retain, as in the fossiliferousspindles of the Old Red Sandstone, its coherent nodule around it.
Her hands tore at the mashrubiyeh, but the tiny spindles and delicate curves held sound and firm.
Against this wall he placed his ladder and climbed to the top, from which he could reach up and clasp the spindlesof the grating above him.
Clinging with his feet and his left hand, he drew out a clasp knife with a razor edge and hacked furiously at the delicate spindles and frail carved work of the screen till he could thrust one arm through the opening.
The table of the number of spindles in each country in the world, given on page 6, gives some idea of the relative position of the United States in the field of cotton manufacturing.
Coming out of the rollers, they are fed to the spindles on the carriage which backs away from the creel and recedes somewhat faster than the rovings are unwound.
There are at least 112 spindles on each machine, and all the machine rings for the spindles are fixed in a single frame.
She has practically doubled the number of her spindles in the last ten years, and her competition has already been felt, for instance, in China, where American gray goods have been practically eliminated from the market.
The number of spindles is the usual basis upon which the size of the industry is judged.
The census figures do not give the number of spindles in each city except when the confines of the city and of the county happen to coincide.
At the termination of its run, or stretch, the spindles increase their speed until the twisting is completed and the carriage starts on its return trip.
Then, as the carriage carrying the whirling spindles continues to back away, the thicker parts of the thread, being comparatively untwisted are pulled down to the average diameter and are twisted in turn.
Some of the mills have nearly, if not quite, a full million spindles in several buildings.
The war has brought growth in the United States and in Japan, but has certainly reduced the numbers of spindles in Germany, Austria, and Russia.
This difference is explained by the fact that Southern mills generally spin coarser yarn and may therefore easily consume twice or even three times as much cotton as mills of the same number of spindles engaged in spinning finer yarn.
In 1890 there were nearly a million and three-quarters spindles in the South compared with less than six hundred thousand ten years before.
The bitts which support the ends or spindlesof the windlass, whence they are also called windlass-bitts.
The holes in which swivel-pintles, or the capstan or windlass spindles move.
A windlass turns on horizontal spindlesat each extremity.
The strong horizontal beam of the windlass, supported at the ends by iron spindles in the windlass-bitts.
The main-piece is whelped like the capstan, and suspended at its ends by powerful spindles falling into metal bearings in the carrick or windlass heads.
Connected in this fashion, the spindles will rotate in unison, and mechanical energy, if applied at A, may be directly transmitted to B.
For illustration, consider the case of two parallel spindles or shafts, A and B (Fig.
Then as soon as the women draw up the spindles and taste the honey, they will say-- He who has made my spindle sweet, Shall in return with good fortune meet!
Dip the brush in the benzine and clean the spindles and spindle holes, and the teeth of the escapement wheel.
Cover up the outside of the spindles with a piece of galvanized iron.
For the back of the sled use the upper part of a child's high chair, taking out the spindles and resetting them in the rear end of the baseboard.
This was the man at whose whisper a hundred thousand spindles had ceased to revolve, and at whose nod, in cotton towns half a world away, a thousand families either labored or were idle, had food or went hungry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spindles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
