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
Now the spinning frame in the mill has replaced both.
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 Dooley, William H. (William Henry)
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 Reilly, S. A.
A great improvement on the spinning frame of the 18th century is the ring frame invented by Jenks.
From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry
Spinning frames—showing the cotton as it comes from the roving frame and passes through 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 Dooley, William H. (William Henry)
