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Twist′ing-mill.


Cotton-manufacture.) Also termed thread-frame. A machine resembling in many respects the throstle, and used for forming sewing-thread.

Twisting-machine.

The individual yarns, from two to six in number, are unwound by tension from their respective bobbins or caps, and after being led across a glass rod, pass through a trough containing water or a weak solution of starch. They are then guided over a roller which lays them parallel or nearly so, and passed down to the eyelet at the extremity of the flyer f, which, [2670] by its rapid rotation, twists them into a solid cord or thread which is wound upon the bobbin. The twist of the thread is usually in a reverse direction to that of the separate yarns. The copping rail on which the bobbins are placed has an up-and down motion to cause an equal distribution of the thread on the bobbins.

Twisting-mill.

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