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the toothed wheel on its shaft from any suitable power of water or steam. Upon the 

 shaft of the latter, between the toothed wheel and the roller, the lever and pulley for 

 putting the machine into and out of gear is visible. The under roller makes about 25 

 revolutions in the minute, by which time three pieces of goods, stitched endwise, mea- 

 suring 28 yards each, may be run through the machine, from a water-trough on one 

 side to a wooden grating upon the other. 



A squeezing machine, with a small engine attached, is shown in Jiff. 128, for the 

 drawing of which we are again indebted to the makers, Messrs. Mather and Platt. 



d, f, represent the squeezing-bowls. They are as large in diameter as possible, and 

 are generally made of sycamore ; but the bottom one is better made of highly com- 

 pressed cotton, a, b, are the engine and frame for driving ; g, frame for carrying 

 bowls ; I, I, compound levers for regulating the pressure ; s is a screw for the same 

 purpose, and c is the cloth passing through the bowls. 



The white-squeezers, or those used before drying, should have a box, supplied with 

 hot water, fixed so that the piece may pass through it before going to the nip of the 

 bowl. 



When the goods are run through, they are carried off upon a grated wheelbarrow 

 in a nearly dry state, and transferred to the spreading machine, called at Manchester 

 a candroy. In many bleach^works, however, the creased pieces are pulled straight by 

 the hands of women, and are then strongly beat against a wooden stock to smooth out 

 the edges. This being done, a number of pieces are stitched endwise together, prepa- 

 ratory to being mangled. 



This squeezing machine is small, but, as will be seen, the rollers are introduced so 

 as to act as long and as rapidly as cloth of whatever length is drawn through them. 



The following figure (129) represents a pair of squeezers, for squeezing the cloth 

 after several of the processes named, and are shown as being driven by a small 



high-pressure engine, a is the fly-wheel of engine ; b, crank of ditto ; c, frame of 

 engine ; d, spur-wheels connecting the engine and squeezers ; e and f, sycamore 

 squeezing bowls. 

 Tho cloth when passed over tho steamed .rollers is not dry ; but it is not smooth 



