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

In regard to cloth manufacture, most yarns are utilized in the form they leave the spinning frame, that is, as single yarns.

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

Within, she was reassured; for there was her familiar spinning frame, with its bobbins ready to be set to spinning and whirling; and the room was full of people, many as small as she.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by Moore, John Trotwood

The sliver on the bobbins from the card is taken to the mule spinning frame where it is passed through rolls, and the sliver attenuated by means of a traveling carriage.

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)

From this machine the roving is wound on a bobbin ready for the spinning frame.

From Textiles and Clothing by Watson, Kate Heintz