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MODERN COTTON SPINNING MACHINERY,
ITS PRINCIPLES AND CONSTRUCTION.
BY
JOSEPH NASMITH,
ASSOCIATE INSTITUTION MECHANICAL ENGINEERS,
MEMBER MANCHESTER ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, ETC.
WITH TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS.
MANCHESTER:
JOSEPH NASMITH, 4, Arcade Chambers, St. Mary’s Gate;
JOHN HEYWOOD, Ridgefield and Deansgate.
LONDON:
E. & F. N. SPON, 125, Strand; and 12, Cortlandt Street, New York.
1890.
[COPYRIGHT.—ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]
PREFACE.
In submitting the following pages to the judgment of the public, theAuthor does not pretend to have written an exhaustive treatise. Thiswould require a volume much larger than the present. It has ratherbeen his aim to treat a branch of the subject thoroughly, which hashitherto had scant justice done to it. While the market is floodedwith books detailing the rules by which speeds are calculated, and thenecessary wheel changes made, those dealing with the construction ofthe machinery employed are few in number. This is the more singular,because England is, beyond doubt, the true mother of this department ofmechanics, and to-day her textile machinists head the lists alike forexcellence of production and fertility of invention.
Since the issue of the late Mr. Evan Leigh’s “Science of Modern CottonSpinning”—comparatively a long time ago—no book has appeared whichtreats the subject from the machinist’s point of view. The well knownbook of Mr. Richard Marsden, “A Handbook of Cotton Spinning,” asits name implies, deals more with the operation than the machinery,although the latter is described in considerable detail. In the presentwork, while it has been impossible to avoid saying something ofspinning, the enunciation of the principles on which the machinery isconstructed forms its raison d’être. On the Continent, more than oneponderous treatise has been published, which possess the peculiarityof foreign technical works in the disproportionate way in which thesmall details are treated. While this is valuable from the professorialpoint of view, it is apt to be prejudicial in actual practice, becausethe operation of these details varies considerably at different times.The avoidance of pedantry is very essential in any book dealing withpractical work, and with this in view, the Author has endeavoured,while fully considering every principle involved, to do so in a plainmanner, which will be readily understood. It has rather been the aimto suggest the inferences to be drawn than to dogmatically stateinflexible rules.
The whole of the machines have been considered fully, and the mostimportant modifications described. The preparation of the drawings hasbeen a long labour, but the Author believes they have not hitherto beenso fully given in any English work. In order to keep the book withinbounds, it has been almost rigidly confined to a consideration of theart of textile mechanics as applied to the spinning of cotton to-day.It is believed that the book will provide an accurate account of thestate of present knowledge, and will be valuable for that reason.
It should be distinctly understood that the mention