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Title: A Hopper Opener at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00117
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Title
A Hopper Opener at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00117
Description
This look like a woollen card hopper, but actually the photo was taken in the Blowing Room and shows a hopper opener, feeding a line of machines leading to the scutcher. Cotton comes in press-packed bales, and it must be loosened up or 'opened' and cleaned of impurities, notably leaf and stalk, as well as any seeds remaining after ginning. Dust is taken away from the machines in the suction trunking shown in the picture. Very often cotton from different sources will be blended to produce the "mixing".
Creator
Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. Publicity Dept.
Source
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Date
1930s
Rights
PHDA - Co-operative Heritage Trust
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
CWS00117.tif
Collection
Citation
Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. Publicity Dept., “A Hopper Opener at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00117,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/708.
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