Redhouses, Woolen Mill, Bridgend, Islay. Perspective details of piecing-machine. Insc. 'GDH' Titled: 'Textile Machinery, Woolen Mill, Islay, sketch details'.
SC 346825
Description Redhouses, Woolen Mill, Bridgend, Islay. Perspective details of piecing-machine. Insc. 'GDH' Titled: 'Textile Machinery, Woolen Mill, Islay, sketch details'.
Catalogue Number SC 346825
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 10664
Scope and Content Diagram 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 time a tray is filled, the 'pawl-wheel' is turned by 36 degrees. Once ten trays are full, the bar or 'pawl' lifts the trip-mechanism pressing down on a lever raising the lift-bar which tips the trays. The carding-machine dumps strips of wool or 'rowans' into the piecing-machine's trays. 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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