Sentence examples for spools from inspiring English sources

But his explanation was simple and heartbreaking; the sound operator had inadvertently lain his anorak against one of the spools on the tape machine.

The film ran over spools.

Spools are cylindrical, with end flanges.

Spools of wicking from the bottom of the machine are threaded through the pistons to pass through the candle mold.

Other threads were wound on thin, flat spools or bobbins held in narrow carriages that could move in a groove or comb in two rows.

Improvements on the Heathcot machine followed through the 19th century: Nottingham-lace machines, used primarily for coarse-lace production, employ larger bobbins, and the pattern threads are wound independently on section spools; in another type, the Barmens machine, threads on king bobbins on carriers are plaited together, sometimes with warp threads.

The fabric to be embroidered is held vertically in a frame extending the full width of the machine, and the needles, supplied with yarn from individual spools, move backward and forward through the fabric.

Thread is usually subjected to special treatment after spinning and is then wound on spools.

In spool Axminster carpets each row of tufts is inserted and cut away from the spools.

Among the important discoveries of 2010 was a workshop in which stone ear spools (also called ear plugs) were fabricated.

Spool Axminster designs are made from a chain of spools, with one spool to each row of pile.