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turbine scutcher [3 records]

Record 1 2006-03-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tools and Equipment (Textile Industries)
  • Bast Fibres (Textiles)
CONT

After retting and drying the flax plants are put through a machine with tightly interlocking fluted rollers to break up the wood core. Scutching now follows to remove the wood or shive from the fibre. This is a beating process previously done on the scutcher's wheel, but now carried out on a turbine scutcher as a continuous process, part of a factory system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Industries du textile)
  • Fibres textiles libériennes

Spanish

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Record 2 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tools and Equipment (Textile Industries)
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
  • Bast Fibres (Textiles)
OBS

scutching: ... the turbine machines which are used have steel rollers attached to revolving cylinders that beat out more of the woody portions of the fiber straw.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Industries du textile)
  • Filature (Textiles)
  • Fibres textiles libériennes
CONT

À la sortie de la teilleuse, la filasse est reprise manuellement en poignées [et mise en balles.]

OBS

teillage. Pour séparer mécaniquement les fibres du bois qu'elles enserrent, on utilise la turbine.

Spanish

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Record 3 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tools and Equipment (Textile Industries)
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
  • Bast Fibres (Textiles)
OBS

scutching: ... the turbine machines which are used have steel rollers attached to revolving cylinders that beat out more of the woody portions of the fiber straw.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Industries du textile)
  • Filature (Textiles)
  • Fibres textiles libériennes
CONT

Pour séparer mécaniquement les fibres du bois qu'elles enserrent, on utilise la turbine.

Spanish

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