File:EB1911 Wool, Worsted and Woollen Manufactures - Section of Ring Spindle.jpg

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English: Section of Ring Spindle. A is the spindle suitably shaped to receive the bobbin at B, with a wharl for turning at C, running in the specially designed receptacle D, which may be screwed firmly into the spindle rail. The traveller E is drawn round the ring F by the spindle acting through the yam as shown in the plan. The spindle is a fixture and the ring-rail is traversed to distribute the yam on the bobbin.
Date published 1911
Source “Wool, Worsted and Woollen Manufactures,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 28, 1911, fig. 19, p. 815.
Author Aldred Farrer Barker
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