Sentence examples for spinning frame from inspiring English sources
noun
A machine that draws and twists fibres and then winds it onto spools or spindles
Finally, the roving is transferred to a spinning frame, where it is drawn further, twisted on a ring spinner, and wound on a bobbin as yarn.
New Lanark, 1 mile (1.6 km) south, was founded in 1785 as a cotton-spinning centre, by David Dale with the support of Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning frame.
The works on display include his world-renowned portrait paintings of the Midlands' entrepreneurs behind the industrial revolution, including a likeness of the inventor of the spinning frame, Sir Richard Arkwright.
The pair teamed up and produced the Spinning Frame, which twisted fibres together to form strong yarn.
This last point is important to historians because it suggests the working classes who experienced industrialisation (in 1764 Hargreaves would invent the spinning jenny to be followed later by Arkwright's spinning frame) were not shut out from its benefits and pleasures.
"Most open-end spinning plants that have the older model spinning frames in them are really dirty and dusty and not fun to be around," she said.
Many of them had come long distances, with finery, and at great expense, and here they were shuffling up and down narrow corridors past iron toys -- express and gravel trucks, fire engines, milk wagons, ice wagons, water-powered spinning frames, early patent models, gas engines, ornamented owls and cigar-store Indians".
Defying factory rules, operatives would affix verses to their spinning frames, "to train their memories," and pin up mathematical problems in the rooms where they worked.
After spinning the frames, we opened the gate and filled jar after jar of golden sweet honey — two gallons, in the end.
Finally a longhaired acrobat takes center stage and spins a frame around his head and his body as if it were the lightest of batons.
I grabbed a video clip of a round of golf with friends and, while in psychedelic mode, added slow motion to one segment, an RGB color split to another and then spun the frame at the end.
