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Manufacturing companies of the United States, which create machinery for textile manufacturing. Pages in category "Textile machinery manufacturers of the United States" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The rival machine, the throstle frame or ring frame was a continuous process, where the roving was drawn twisted and wrapped in one action. The spinning mule became self-acting (automatic) in 1830s. The mule was the most common spinning machine from 1790 until about 1900, but was still used for fine yarns until the 1960s.
Textile machinery manufacturers of the United States (13 P) Pages in category "Textile machinery manufacturers" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
Textile machinery manufacturers (1 C, 34 P) W. Weaving equipment (1 C, 31 P) Pages in category "Textile machinery" ... Sewing machine; Silver Reed; Spinning frame;
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 ...
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Focusing on looms for the cotton textile industry, Draper became part of the "Big Three" textile machinery makers in the Blackstone Valley, along with Crompton & Knowles of Worcester, Massachusetts, which focused on looms for wool, and the mighty Whitin Machine Works in nearby Whitinsville, Massachusetts which largely made spinning frames and ...