7. Glossary
Spindle bench; roving frame
Machine for stretching a fiber ribbon and forming a slightly twisted strand.
Drawing frame
Spinning machine in which several slivers are juxtaposed in order to reduce mass irregularities, then stretched to align the fibers; the output product is a sliver.
Cardoon; cardoon
Machine for detangling, separating, and cleaning carding or combing tow by the mechanical action of metal fittings.
Continuous spinning (ring and slide spinning machine); ring spinning frame
The spinning process itself, in which a sliver is first drawn out in a drawing frame using rollers. The resulting fiber flow is twisted by the rotation of the spindle, which uses the thread thus produced to drive the slide along a circular...
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