| 释义 |
ˈcounter-ˌfaller Spinning.
[counter- 8 + faller.]
In a cotton-spinning machine or mule, a wire which passes beneath the yarns, when pressed down by the faller-wire, so as to keep the tension uniform. Also attrib.
1836Ure Cotton Manuf. II. 156 There is another regulating wire called the counterfaller. Ibid. 186 On the counter-faller shaft [of a mule] are several segments. 1866Platt in Proc. Inst. Mech. Engineers 228 The working of the two faller wires, a second or counter-faller having now been added underneath the threads, which was lifted up for the purpose of taking up the slack in the threads after the backing-off. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 396/2 To keep the yarn at a uniform degree of tension whilst winding..was one of the most difficult problems..This is now..done by the ‘counter-faller’. |