86 (#136) ############################################# WOOLLEN AND WORSTED SPINNING ) ) the material is of sufficient length to stand the strain of passing over the overhead lattice from the delivery end of one machine to the feed end of another machine. Should the material be too short, and consequently the sliver too weak for this mode of conveyance, the Apperley feed may be adopted, in which the lattice conveying the sliver may be run along the ground, and thus a very simple and direct connexion between the two machines effected. The problem of deciding the best angle of the feed has already been referred to, and is also elucidated in the graphic diagrams of feeding (Fig. 15). In this country the Blamire or blanket" feed is almost invariably selected for short material, especially mungo blends—but the feed is considered very unsuit- able for long-fibred material. This feed is illustrated in Fig. 12, from which it will be noted that the “ blanket" is built up film by film, the direction of the fibres in these films being almost at right angles to the direction of the delivery of the final thick "blanket." There is another form of the Blamire feed for mills in which room is limited, but the principle of forming the lap is exactly the same. One other feed-specially designed for long-fibred material-merits careful study. The "ball and creel" feed presents certain advantages which must not be overlooked. In Fig. 13 this type of feed is illustrated. There the fibre direction is approximately with the length of the sliver,* and consequently this feed is especi- ally suited to the carding of the longer clothing wools. The difficulties of starting up and stopping have already been referred to. Attention should be drawn, however, to one important advantage which this feed presents, viz., the ease with which random effects * On the assumption that the sliver has been brought from the centre--not from the side of the doffer. 86
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