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Title: Cylinder Sizing Machine, Queen Street Mill near Burnley - FJW00285
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Title
Cylinder Sizing Machine, Queen Street Mill near Burnley - FJW00285
Description
For a typical plain cloth woven at Queen Street Mill, the beams for the looms may have needed between 1500 and 2500 strands (ends) winding onto them. When a loom is weaving these ends take a lot of wear and tear as the shed (the ‘tunnel’ for the shuttle to pass through) is opened and closed for each pick. The application of size gives the yarn more resistance to breakage on the loom. The cylinder sizing machine allows all the ends from several taper’s beams to be passed through a size solution kept near boiling point by steam coils. The two large steam heated cylinders then dry the yarn and it is cooled and kept moving by air from wooden bladed fans low down near the front of the machine. Finally at the delivery end of the machine all the ends are wound onto a weaver’s beam ready to go to the drawing-in room.
Creator
Frank Woolrych
Source
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Date
2016-03-15T14:47:24
Rights
PHDA - Frank Woolrych Collection
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
FJW00285.tif
Collection
Citation
Frank Woolrych, “Cylinder Sizing Machine, Queen Street Mill near Burnley - FJW00285,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed May 3, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/4278.
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