spinning frame
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Mauney had seen the Japanese spinning equipment at a textile show and tested a Japanese spinning frame for three months, then bought 9.000 spindles for $500,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same applies in the case of the roving passing from the roving to the spinning frame.
From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley
He taught himself crafts necessary to invent and patent in 1769 a spinning frame worked by a water wheel, which he called a" water frame".
From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by S. A. Reilly
And last, though not least in its direct and indirect effects on slavery, was the cotton gin of Eli Whitney, which formed the other half—the other hand, so to speak—of the spinning frame.
From Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12 by Archibald Henry Grimké
Yarn is wound on bobbins on the ring or mule spinning frame.
From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley
