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Definition of Doffer
1. n. A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards.
2. n. A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar, with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the fiber from the cards.
Definition of Doffer
1. Noun. (context: textile manufacturing) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton or fiber from the cards. ¹
2. Noun. A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doffer
1. one that doffs [n -S] - See also: doffs
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doffer
Literary usage of Doffer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1836)
"Instead of a continuous cylinder, this doffer is composed of a set of wheels, or
pulleys, of equal diameter with the common doffer, covered with a card in ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"A square board 3 or 4 inches wider than the diameter of the doffer should be ...
This can be slipped over the doffer and the rings readily forced into place ..."
3. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1836)
"Instead of a continuous cylinder, this doffer is composed of a set of wheels, or
pulleys, of equal diameter with the common doffer, covered with a card in ..."
4. Cotton Spinning by William Scott-Taggart (1898)
"As the doffer takes the fibres from the cylinder it slowly carries them round,
and this slow movement has the natural effect of causing the cylinder, ..."
5. Training the Boy by William Arch McKeever (1913)
"This baby cotton mill doffer spent the long, tedious days in this dark prison.
The factory owner trained him to say, " I am 12," as a means of complying ..."
6. Cotton Spinning: Its Development, Principles, and Practice by Richard Marsden (1888)
"... main cylinder, rollers, clearers, and doffer.—Location of cards; adjustment;
setting of rollers and clearers. —Double cards.—The Derby doubler. ..."
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