Doffer: alternatives and connections

A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rol…

A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetlin…

The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mou…

A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It…

A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine.

The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.

A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.

Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.

Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner…

The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.

Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.

The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its…

A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.

The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.

A genus of plants which yield the cotton of the arts. The species are much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given to the common cott…