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Redhouses, Woolen Mill, Bridgend, Islay. Perspective details of piecing-machine. Insc. 'GDH' Titled: 'Textile Machinery, Woolen Mill, Islay, sketch details'.
SC 346187
Description Redhouses, Woolen Mill, Bridgend, Islay. Perspective details of piecing-machine. Insc. 'GDH' Titled: 'Textile Machinery, Woolen Mill, Islay, sketch details'.
Catalogue Number SC 346187
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 10664
Scope and Content Diagram of leather conveyor-belts 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. This diagram shows how each conveyor belt that runs under the trays is equipped with metal fins for catching the strands of wool or 'rowans'. Each strand 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. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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