单词 | counter-faller |
释义 | counter-fallern. Spinning. 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 attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > machine > parts of knave1564 porcupine roller1776 catch box1809 jack-frame1814 Jack-in-the-box1814 flyer frame1825 sneck1825 thread-wire1825 creel1835 fly-frame1835 self-actor1835 trumpet-mouth1835 counter-faller1836 Jack1875 trumpet1877 back-shaft1879 builder1884 pot-eye1884 twizzle1884 rice creel1895 1836 A. Ure Cotton Manuf. Great Brit. II. 156 There is another regulating wire called the counterfaller. 1836 A. Ure Cotton Manuf. Great Brit. II. 186 On the counter-faller shaft [of a mule] are several segments. 1866 Platt in Inst. Mech. Engineers: Proc. 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. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) 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’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1836 |
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