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The
otton Textile Worker's
Handbook
A CONVENIENT REFERENCE BOOK
For All Persons Interested In
he Spinning of CottonYarns, the Weaving of
Cotton Fabrics, and the Yarn and Cloth
Calculations Incidental
Thereto
BY
International Correspondence Schools
SCRANTON, PA.
2d Edition, 7th Thousand, 2d Impression
scranton, pa.
International Textbook Company
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Copyright, 1913, 1920, by
International Textbook Company
Copyright in Great Britain
All Rights Reserved
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Press of
International Textbook Company
Scranton, Pa.
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PREFACE
In this work, the publishers have not attempted
to produce a condensed cyclopedia covering the
ottensive field of cotton manufacturing, but they
have aimed to present a useful reference book
convenient to carry in the pocket—a pocketbook
in truth—and containing information, especially
rules, tables,
etc., often used and required by
superintendents, overseers, fixers, and, in fact, all
persons engaged or interested in the great cotton
textile manufacturing industry and
its many
ramifications.
The intention has been to select from a vast
amount of material only that which is most likely
to be of use in connection with daily work or to
which reference will be made most frequently.
The treatment of many subjects is of necessity
brief, but these matters have been covered to the
full extent of the available space, and the text
relating thereto includes that which
is most
valuable for frequent reference. The material
on yarn calculations,
cloth
calculations, and
draft calculations presents, in each case, a fin-
ished treatise that,
it
is hoped, will prove of
great value. Many tables are included and a
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IV
PREFACE
great number of these, such as, for instance, the
cotton-yarn numbering table, the cotton-roving
numbering table, and the many tables indicating
the production of various machines under a
wide range of condition