Slasher Sizing Machine

SLASHER SIZING MACHINE

This is a large machine used in cotton manufacturing for coating the warp yarn with a size mixture. The required number of beams, four to eight, to make the complete warp are placed in the beam creel at the back of the machine. All the threads from these beams are drawn together into one sheet of ends, passed through the size box, between squeezing rollers, dried by hot cylinders or hot air, then passed round a measuring roller on to the weaver's beam at the front. Each back beam contains about 500 threads and lengths vary up to 12,000 yards or more according to counts. This constitutes a " taper's set."