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...