284 (#370) ############################################ WOOLLEN AND WORSTED SPINNING The worsted drawer is strongly recommended to scheme out his sets of machines, drafts, doublings, etc., on the lines here indicated rather than to follow any empirical rules of which he has little or no intelligent grasp. See everything in the mind's eye but check the imagination-which sometimes may lead one wrong --by actual trial. But imagine !!! The following particulars respecting spinning plants are both interesting and illuminative. List XV.--CONTRASTING FLYER, CAP, RING AND MULE SPINNING PLANTS * Machine lb. sq. ft. 45 Flyer Frames Cap Frames Ring Frames Mules 4,000 4,500 4,500 3,920 5'2 2,400 £2,625 2,000 £410 35 1,800 £1,350 1,480 £300 58 3:5 2,000 £1,500 1,650 5'2 2,800 £1,480 5,000 £1,020 33 £335 a 5. The Method of Arrangement of a Drawing and Spinning Shed and of Typical Sets of Machines.- There are three methods of spacing out such sets of machines as those dealt with in the foregoing, viz. :- 1. To arrange the machinery as seems best and then to cover in with a suitable roof supported by pillars conveniently placed and flooring “aisled ” according to requirements; 2. To put up a shed or building and then arrange the machinery to put into this shed ; 3. To combine and adjust 1 and 2. * Originally appearing in the Textile Mercury. † Pre-war costs. 284
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