tentering

= The object of tentering [14] is to straighten and level the fabric.

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There are calenders or heavy rolls to smooth and iron them, steam presses of great power to press them out, breaking and rubbing machines to soften them, and tentering machines to stretch them to uniform width.

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After the cloth leaves the tentering machine it has lost its natural moisture, and is not at all fitted, as far as fiber condition is concerned, for the napping.

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The loom width can be restored by tentering or running the goods over

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The girls at the tentering machines praised the bonus system eagerly.

Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915

The wage with the bonus was now about $10 on full time, and the hours were lessened 45 minutes, as at the tentering machines.

Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915

On consulting a neighborhood physician it was found that within the last ten years, however, several women, both at the yarding and tentering machines, had strained themselves, probably by the tread at the yarding machine and by the slightly twisted seated position the older tentering machines necessitated.

Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915

The first process at which women are employed is that of keeping cloth running evenly through a tentering machine.

Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915

But in another part of the factory the girls at the tentering machines had wished to lump their rest intervals and to take them altogether in fifty-minute periods in the middle of the morning and of the afternoon.

Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915

The output of the tentering machines was increased about sixty per cent.

Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915