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  2. Ring spinning - Wikipedia

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    Ring spinning is a continuous process, unlike mule spinning which uses an intermittent action. In ring spinning, the roving is first attenuated by using drawing rollers, then spun and wound around a rotating spindle which in its turn is contained within an independently rotating ring flyer. Traditionally ring frames could only be used for the ...

  3. Cotton-spinning machinery - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Spinning (textiles) - Wikipedia

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    Spinning is a twisting technique to form yarn from fibers.The fiber intended is drawn out, twisted, and wound onto a bobbin.A few popular fibers that are spun into yarn other than cotton, which is the most popular, are viscose (the most common form of rayon), animal fibers such as wool, and synthetic polyester. [1]

  5. Cotton mill - Wikipedia

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    The average age of installed rotors is much lower than that of spindles and as rotors are between 7 and 10 times more productive they are responsible for 20% of the cotton spun worldwide. [89] Modern cotton mills are increasingly automated. One large mill in Virginia in the United States employs 140 workers in 2013 to produce an output that ...

  6. Doffer - Wikipedia

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    Doffer boys in Aragon Mills, Rock Hill, South Carolina, photographed by Lewis Hine on 13 May 1912 A doffer is someone who removes "doffs" (bobbins, pirns or spindles) holding spun fiber such as cotton or wool from a spinning frame and replaces them with empty ones.

  7. List of mills owned by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited

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    In 1951 coarser ring spun yarns from the 2010s (decade)to 24's [11] Kent: G Stott : Chadderton: 1908 : 1994 : 83: Notes: Cotton spinning mill built in 1908 by Kent Mill Ltd. In 1950, LCC had converted it from a mule mill to ring mill for Egyptian cotton.

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    Sports Authority. A.k.a. the place where you bought your very expensive soccer cleats that you wore approximately three times before dramatically quitting the team.

  9. Spinning wheel - Wikipedia

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    Yarn is spun on a great wheel with the long-draw spinning technique, which requires only one active hand most of the time, thus freeing a hand to turn the wheel. The great wheel is usually used to spin short-staple fibres (this includes both cotton and wool), and can only be used with fibre preparations that are suited to long-draw spinning. [23]