1. Rigid Bend, mathematically correct at all stages of wear of the wire.
  2. Perfect concentricity of Flats to Cylinder. Cylinder Pedestals are adjustable.
  3. Arrangements for adjusting Flats whereby accuracy to the thousandth part of an inch is obtained.
  4. Better quality of yarn made from the same cotton, or equally good yarn made from cheaper cotton.
  5. Card Clothing throughout is of best Hardened and Tempered Steel Wire, Plough Ground or Needle Pointed.
  6. Patent Doffer Slow Motion, to facilitate piecing up of broken sliver.
  7. Patent method of securing Clothing to the Flats; neatest, cleanest and most effective.
  8. Patent Top Flat Grinding Arrangement for grinding from the working seating of the Flats.
  9. Patent Flat Stripping Motion, which insures perfect stripping without damage to the Clothing on the Flats.
  10. Back Bends or Circles for supporting Flats and preventing sagging and stretching of chains.

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FLAT GRINDING MOTION

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The following paragraphs briefly describe some of the points of advantage in the design and construction of our machines:

CYLINDERS AND DOFFERS are carefully balanced at a high speed and are ground after being turned, making a perfectly true surface for the Card Clothing.

GOOD SELVAGES—Both Cylinders and Doffers are clothed to the extreme edges, which prevents ragged selvages.

PROTECTION OF CLOTHING—The Doffers are provided with flanges to protect the Clothing, keep the edges firm and prevent the wire from being knocked down. Turned iron flanges on the Bends, and Segment Rings fixed to the inside of the lower part of the framing protect the edges of the Cylinders all the way round. The Doffers are made 1/8 in. wider than the Cylinders in order to keep the edges of the latter clean.

PREVENTION OF ACCUMULATION OF FLY—The Segment Rings which are fitted close to the edges of the Cylinder project in such a way as to form a circle two inches larger than the diameter of the Cylinder. The Underscreens are attached to these Segment Rings, and this arrangement makes it impossible for fly to collect inside the Screens or about the edges of the Cylinders and Doffers.