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

Although he was not a craftsman of any sort, he patented in 1769 a spinning frame worked by water power and erected the first practical cotton mill factory.

From Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III by Reilly, S. A.

The final machine used in the conversion of rove to the size of yarn required is termed the spinning frame.

From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by Woodhouse, T.

Yarn.—Yarn may be dyed either in the hank, in the warp or in the cop, i.e. in the form in which the yarn leaves the spinning frame.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

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, 5th Ed. by Reilly, S. A.