Keywords: NSRW Story of Wool - slashing machine.jpg en SLASHING MACHINE This is a machine for sizing the threads In a slasher the threads from a number of warping beams are first combined into one sheet and then plunged into a trough filled with size which is kept at a boiling temperature and next squeezed between two pairs of rollers The sheet of yarn almost encircles two steam-heated cylinders This quickly dries the yarn The yarn is next measured passed above and below rods which separate the threads which are wound upon a loom beam The New Student's Reference Work v 5 1914 Story of Wool narrative between pp 2108 and 2109 third page Underwood Underwood published 1914 PD-US LA2-NSRW-5-0123 jpg Underwood Underwood Woollen mills |