33 (#69) ############################################## BLENDING 5 << (e) A conveyer tube from the Fearnought or from any convenient part of the "blending room ” should be arranged to convey the wool to a convenient storage as near the cards as possible. Perhaps it should be added that a good conveyer system will deliver wool without matting or stringing up to a thousand feet away from the blending room. ** * * Basic principles : These are- I. To clear each material, so far as ever possible, of its impurities: 2. To bring each material into a freely disen- tangled state usually without shortening the fibre length. 3. To mix regularly the one or the several materials composing a blend. 4. To mix finely the various materials composing a blend with due deference to the carding which follows. 5. To arrange for the delivery of the blended materials to the required place in the mill with the least possible felting or detrimental handling. All machines and processes should be severely criticized in the light of these five principles ; by this means much thoughtless and even stupid machine design and blending practice may be avoided. V 33
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