['26', '(#56)', '##############################################', 'WOOLLEN', 'AND', 'WORSTED', 'SPINNING', 'The', 'Blending', 'Process.—Before', 'considering', 'the', 'machinery', 'in', '“', 'blending,"', 'the', 'process', 'itself', 'should', 'be', 'carefully', 'thought', 'over.', 'In', 'what', 'states', 'actually', 'are', 'the', 'materials', 'to', 'be', 'blended,', 'and', 'in', 'what', 'state', 'should', 'they', 'be', 'before', 'the', 'process', 'is', 'started', '?', 'What', 'state', 'should', 'the', 'blend', 'be', 'in', 'when', 'the', 'process', 'is', 'finished,', 'and', 'what', 'process', 'or', 'processes', 'should', 'be', 'employed', 'to', 'effect', 'the', 'required', 'transformation', '?', 'The', 'materials', 'to', 'be', 'blended', 'will', 'arrive', 'at', 'the', 'mill', 'or', 'even', 'in', 'the', 'blending', 'room', 'in', 'many', 'different', 'forms,', 'but', 'in', 'almost', 'every', 'case', 'each', 'material', 'will', 'require', 'preparation', 'for', 'blending', 'before', 'the', 'actual', 'blending', 'is', 'taken', 'in', 'hand.', 'Thus', 'scoured', 'wool', 'must', 'be', 'opened', 'out,', 'brought', 'into', 'a', 'fairly', 'lock-divided', 'state', 'and', 'if', 'oiling', 'has', 'not', 'been', 'effected', 'on', 'the', 'drying', 'machine', 'while', 'the', 'wool', 'is', 'warm', 'and', 'the', 'fibres', 'in', 'the', 'state', 'to', 'receive', 'an', 'evenly', 'distributed', 'film', 'of', 'oil', 'over', 'their', 'surface-oiled', 'previously', 'to', 'being', 'blended', 'with', 'cotton.', 'Cotton', 'must', 'be', 'thoroughly', 'opened', 'out', 'and', 'brought', 'into', 'a', 'fluffy', 'state', ';', 'similarly', 'with', 'mungo,', 'shoddy,', 'and', 'all', 'other', 'materials', 'which', 'it', 'is', 'proposed', 'to', 'blend.', 'The', 'final', 'state,', 'in', 'which', 'the', 'materials', 'should', 'be', 'as', 'evenly', 'and', 'finely', 'mixed', 'as', 'possible,', 'will', 'only', 'be', 'satisfactorily', 'attained', 'by', 'giving', 'thoughtful', 'attention', 'not', 'only', 'to', 'the', 'machines', 'employed,', 'but', 'also', 'to', 'every', 'detail', 'of', 'the', 'process.', 'It', 'is', 'obvious,', 'for', 'example,', 'that', 'a', 'deadened', 'oiled', 'wool', 'mixed', 'with', 'a', 'light', 'flimsy', 'cotton', 'may', 'be', 'sorted', 'out', 'by', 'a', 'thoughtlessly', 'employed', 'air-blast', 'or', 'air', 'control', 'in', 'either', 'Willow', 'or', 'Fearnought', ';', 'but', 'it', 'is', 'not', 'so', 'evident', 'that', 'the', 'mere', 'breaking-down', 'of', 'a', 'stack', 'with', 'sticks', 'may', '“strike-sort', '"', 'the', 'material', 'into', 'long', 'and', 'short', 'fibres-hence', 'the', 'superior', 'method', 'of', 'breaking-down', 'by', '"', 'pulling."', 'The', 'actual', 'blending', 'process', 'is', 'effected', 'by', 'building', 'the', 'materials', 'to', 'be', 'blended', 'into', 'a', '"stack”', 'layer', 'by', '26']
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