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Redhouses Woolen Mill. Delivery end of piecing machine, showing rolling and piecing mechanism.
AG 9618
Description Redhouses Woolen Mill. Delivery end of piecing machine, showing rolling and piecing mechanism.
Date 1979
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number AG 9618
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 344749
Scope and Content Detail of piecing mechanism of piecing-machine on ground-floor of woollen mill at Bridgend, Islay This piecing-machine in the woollen mill at Bridgend is one of only three to survive in Britain. It is marked: RT ARCHIBALD'S PATENT DEVONVALE NO.6 and is an improved version of one patented to Robert Archibald of Devon Vale, Tillicoultry in 1858. Each strip of wool or 'rowan' is rolled in the press-rollers to join it to one from the previous batch. It is then twisted by twist-rollers and passed through the weighted rod-rollers to keep the material's tension as it is wound onto the bobbin. The piecing-machine's trays receive strips of wool or 'rowans' from the carding-machine. These are tipped in batches of ten onto belts beneath. Each rowan is then rolled, twisted, joined to the one from the previous batch, and then wound onto the bobbin. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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