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1893 Chicago Exhibition: Catalogue: Group 72

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Note: This is a sub-section of 1893 Chicago Exhibition: Catalogue.

GROUP LXXII.

Machinery for the Manufacture of Textile Fabrics and Clothing.


168 Brindle, Reade and Taylor, 14 Field Street, Failsworth, near Manchester. Spinning frame for spinning cop on the bare spindle and on permanent frame, clip and arrangement to ensure steady winding and better cop with ordinary mules, automatic shuttle guard for power looms; pressure fans for cotton mills, also applicable to blast furnaces.

169 Cameron-Maclachlan, Dugald, Oban, Argyllshire, Scotland. Hand loom, and spinning wheel.

170 Crippin, William, and Young, George, 48 Faulkner Street, Manchester. Dyeing of rovings and cops in cotton and wool.

171 Grant & Co., W. H., Folcshill, Coventry. Jacquard silk weaving loom with six tiers of shuttles, in motion, small hand loom for silk handkerchiefs, ties, and similar goods, sundry accessories and small machines.

172 National Machine Syndicate (The), 3 Hart Street, Wood Street, London, E.C. Machines for marking and measuring, and blocking textile and other fabrics.

173 Platt Bros. & Co., Limited, Hartford Iron Works, Oldham. [.See Advt.] Cotton cleaning, carding, and combing machinery. Cotton bale breaker, with mixing lattices, exhaust opener, and lap machine, 48 inches wide, with lattice feeder and patent dust trunks; single scutcher and lap machine, 46 inches wide; single carding engine, 45 inches, on wire, 50 inches cylinder; 106 self-stripping flats, drawing frame, head of 2 deliverers, lap doubler ; Heilman’s combing machine, 8 boxes, laps 10i inches wide.

174 Roberts, Royle & Co., Victoria Works, Lilly Street, Urmston, Manchester. Light power loom for making fancy coloured goods.

175 Stevens, Thomas, Stevengraph Works, Coventry. Jacquard figure loom.

176 Wilkinson, Thomas, Paynes Lane, Coventry. Loom with double cylinder Jacquard machine for weaving broad and narrow silk and cotton fabrics.


  • Combe, Barbour & Combe, Limited. See Groot IX.