Item 20: Worsted Top Preparation (Bradford System): Noble Comb

Four Gilled Slivers are wound into "punch balls" which are then placed into the Noble Comb (down low). Thes slivers are fed upward and into the feed boxes which feed the pinned "circles" (great circle (1) and small circles (20) on opposite sides of the comb. The long fibers are drawn off by verticle aprons, the strands from both sides are combined and are moved to the right and the combed sliver is coiled into a can (extreme right). U.S.Department... of Agriculture; Negative #20417.