Ring spinning | textiles | Britannica (original) (raw)

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cotton processing

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  In cotton: Cotton fibre processing
  …still common processing method is ring spinning, by which the mass of cotton may be subjected to opening and cleaning, picking, carding, combing, drawing, roving, and spinning. The cotton bale is opened, and its fibres are raked mechanically to remove foreign matter (e.g., soil and seeds). A picker (picking machine)…
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Thorp’s machine

• In John Thorp
  …an American inventor of the ring spinning machine (1828), which by the 1860s had largely replaced Samuel Crompton’s spinning mule in the world’s textile mills because of its greater productivity and simplicity.
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