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Ten′ter-ing-ma-chine′.

A machine for stretching fabrics.

In one form of the machine, combinations of adjustable oblique traveling selvedge-feeding and carrying devices are used, which, in some cases, operate in connection with endless belts, bands, or cords arranged to hold the selvedges of the fabric in between them and the carrying-devices; the intermediate portion or body of the fabric is run over a divided longitudinally expanding and contracting friction-frame or drag arranged between the selvedge carrying and stretching devices.

Another machine has an arrangement of separate selvedge carrying, stretching, and feeding devices on opposite sides of the machine, driven in a positive manner, with facility not only for driving said devices on one side of the machine and not on the other, but of positively driving them at different velocities relatively with each other, to adjust the stretch or feed on opposite sides, as required. A roller on the delivery side at the foot of the chains stretches the fabric in its passage from the stretching-devices to the first drying-cylinder. See Palmer's patents, 88,504, March 30, 1860; 148,082, March 3, 1874; and 161,896, April 13, 1875.

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