Cotton Manufacturing

About this eBook

Author

Brooks, Christopher Parkinson, 1866-1909

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Chris Jordan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

TS: Technology: Manufactures

Subject

Cotton spinning

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 57681

Release Date

August 13, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.COTTON MANUFACTURING.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY, HISTORY, STATISTICS, COTTON AND COTTON SPINNING, MANUFACTURING. — Statistics. — Cotton Districts. — Cotton.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. WINDING AND WARPING, WARP YARN, WINDING FROM COP, BOBBIN AND HANK, BEAMING, SECTIONAL WARPING, BALL WARPING. — The Twist. — Winding from Cops. — Winding from the Hank. — Beam-warping. — Sectional Warping. — Ball Warping on the Warping Mill.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. SIZING MATERIALS, MIXING, AND MACHINERY. — Yarn for Warps. — Sizing Materials. — Size Mixing. — Sizing Machinery. — Slow Motion. — Marking Motion. — Tape Dressing. — Ball Sizing. — Looming and Drawing.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. WEAVING, PLAIN LOOMS, SHEDDING, PICKING, BEATING-UP, OTHER MOTIONS, MODIFICATIONS OF LOOM, SPLIT MOTIONS. — The Plain Loom. — Shedding. — Picking. — Beating Up. — Loose and Fast Reeds. — Take-up Motion. — The Weft Stop Motion. — The Brake. — Temple Rollers. — Timing. — The Position and Fixing of the Looms. — Loom Tackling. — The Weavers. — Setting Out Tappet. — Split Cloths and Motions. — Speeds.—Average Speed of New Looms. — Reed Space. — Top Motions.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. COTTON CLOTH, CLOTH-LOOKING, VARIETIES, DIMENSIONS, STANDARD MAKES. — Cloth-looking. — Faults in Cloth. — Headings. — Packing. — Varieties of Cotton Cloth.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. FANCY WEAVING, TAPPET AND DOBBY WORK, ANALYSIS OF CLOTH, TAPPETS, CLOTH, DOBBIES, DOBBY CLOTH, GAUZE, HANDKERCHIEF MOTION. — Classification of Cloth. — Analysis of Patterns. — Designing. — Drafts. — Lifting Plans. — Shedding. — Tappets. — Cloths Woven by Tappets. — Pile Cloths. — Cords, Fustians. — Dobbies. — Cloths Woven on the Dobby — Figured Dhooties. — Gauze and Leno Cloth. — Handkerchiefs.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. FANCY WEAVING BY THE JACQUARD, ITS CONSTRUCTION, CARD CUTTING, WOVEN PILE CLOTHS. — The Jacquard Machine. — The Cards. — Single and Double Lift. — Ties. — The Shed. — Card Cutting and Repeating. — Casting Out. — Jacquard Goods. — Counterpanes. — Woven Pile Cloths.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. DROP-BOX LOOMS, STRIPES, CHECKS, AND SPOTTING. — Stripes — Checks. — The Drop-box Loom. — DIGGLE’S CHAIN MOTION. — WRIGHT SHAW MOTION. — OTHER MOTIONS. — CIRCULAR BOXES. — GENERAL. — Coloured Spots. — Circle Weaving. — Lappets.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. MILL CALCULATIONS—YARN COUNTS, REEDS, HEALDS, COST OF CLOTH, WARPING AND SIZING LENGTHS, WAGES, SPEEDS, ENGINES. — Yarn Calculations. — Wrapping. — Testing Yarns. — Reed Counting. — Healds. — Weight of a Piece. — Stripe Patterns. — Altering. — Other Reeds. — Warping and Sizing Calculations. — Wages—Standard Lists. — Speeds of Shafts, Etc. — Engines.
15. 15.City and Guilds of London Institute FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION. — TECHNOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS. — 19B.—COTTON MANUFACTURE.
16. 16.GLOSSARY OF TRADE TERMS.
17. 17.INDEX.
18. 18.ADVERTISEMENTS.
19. 19.FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.Untitled

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