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Cotton-spinning machinery is machines which process (or spin) prepared cotton roving into workable yarn or thread. [1] Such machinery can be dated back centuries. During the 18th and 19th centuries, as part of the Industrial Revolution cotton-spinning machinery was developed to bring mass production to the cotton industry.
They initially concentrated on looms, but eventually expanded to manufacture the complete range of machinery used in a cotton mill. John Bullough, (born 1837) died in 1891. By then Bulloughs was the world's largest manufacturer of ring spinning frames, and John, the owner of the Isle of Rùm, was the first cotton machine manufacturing ...
Perhaps the most modern machines were ring spinning frames, dated 1967." [13] Mons (formerly Hare) Abraham Stott : Todmorden: 1907 : 1968 : 61: Notes: Seven-storeyed steam-powered cotton-spinning mill built for the Hare Spinning Company Limited. It was constructed of red Accrington brick, designed by Abraham Stott.
Spinning mills in Ancoats, Manchester, England – representation of a mill-dominated townscape. A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, [1] an important product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the factory system. [2]
It was used for carding cotton. [9] The multiple spindle spinning jenny was invented in 1764. James Hargreaves is credited as the inventor. This machine increased the thread production capacity of a single worker — initially eightfold and subsequently much further. Others [10] credit the original invention to Thomas Highs.
The Paul-Wyatt cotton mills were the world's first mechanised cotton spinning factories. [1] Operating from 1741 until 1764 they were built to house the roller spinning machinery invented by Lewis Paul and John Wyatt. They were not very profitable but they spun cotton successfully for several decades. [2]
In the recession of the 1930s, Platt Brothers, Howard and Bullough, Brooks and Doxey, Asa Lees, Dobson and Barlow, Joseph Hibbert, John Hetherington and Tweedales and Smalley merged to become Textile Machinery Makers Ltd., but the individual units continued to trade under their own names until 1970, when they were rationalised into one company called Platt UK Ltd. [1] In 1991 the company name ...
The company made the full range of preparation and spinning machinery. In the 1920s it acquired Lord Bros. of Todmorden. In the recession of the 1930s, Platt Brothers, Howard and Bullough, Brooks and Doxey, Asa Lees, Dobson and Barlow, Joseph Hibbert, John Hetherington and Tweedales and Smalley merged to become Textile Machinery Makers Ltd., but the individual units continued to trade under ...