Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: over the large stripper pulley. This saves the trouble of fixing a separate cylinder on the floor; but, of course, is not applicable except when the clothing is off the main cylinder. The doffer is lifted out on trusses when clothed, until the main cylinder is finished, when the latter is used as a stretcher; but, if clothed with the roller, it is not necessary to move it. 3d. Clothing Ring Doffers. Procure a box, turn it upside down, and bore a hole the size of the doffer shaft through the bottom, which is for the present on top. The doffer is put on end, upright, with the shaft through the hole. To help the rings on, a cone of wood is used, 6 inches or so thick, the same diameter as the doffer at the bottom and about inch less in diameter on top. Through the centre a hole is made, large enough to slip easily on the upper shaft so as to rest on the doffer end. The rings are slipped over the small part of the cone and pushed down about an inch over the doffer. Now procure a square board about 1 inchthick and about 4 inches larger than the diameter of the doffer. In the centre a hole is made g inch larger than the doflcr; this is now put over the cone and lowered on to the ring, bearing only on the leather or other foundation. Two persons, one on each side, now press the board downwards steadily, carrying the ring beneath it to the desired place. After proceeding in this manner with each ring the doffer may be lifted into the grinder, and the other one, if there are two, proceeded with in like manner. The rings will at this stage be at varying distances apart, and before they can be arranged a gauge must be provided, which can be made as follows: get a stick of pine 1 inches square, planed off true, and long enough to extend across the card-frame. This is placed against …
