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CALICO-PRINTING 



398 



while being brcadthened ; G, cloth passing through the machine ; H, batching ap- 

 paratus ; i, plaiting apparatus, the machine being prepared to either plait or batch ; 



K, driving pullies. For some descriptions 

 of goods, such as furniture prints, a glaz- 

 ing calender is employed. Fig. 399 is an 

 elevation of Mather and Platt's calender ; 



A, the framing with levers, screws, &c. ; 



B, metal bowl heated by steam or gas ; 

 c, paper or cotton bowls ; D, entering rails, 

 &c. ; E, batching apparatus ; F, cloth pas- 

 sing through the machine. The friction 

 of the heated metal bowl against the 

 cloth, pressing against the larger bowls 

 gives a glaze to the cloth. Pieces have 

 now to be made up in folds of uniform 

 length, generally about a yard. This 

 operation is done by girls hooking one 

 selvage of a piece backwards and for- 

 wards on long steel hooks, fixed on a 

 wooden frame, standing about 4 feet 6 

 inches from the ground; these hooks 

 are moveable, so as to give various 

 lengths of fold as required. Plaiting and 



