drawing frame

American  

noun

Textiles.

1. a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.

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Etymology

Origin of drawing frame

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

The team gave kids a sheet of paper with just a few basic elements printed on it: some dots here, squiggles there and a rectangle that suggested a drawing frame.

From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2022

In addition, a judge checked whether the children chose to incorporate a small shape just outside what looked like a rectangular drawing frame.

From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2022

When the combing is adopted, it precedes the drawing frame, which has previously been described, and the cans of sliver from the comber are taken directly to the draw-frame.

From The Story of the Cotton Plant by Wilkinson, Frederick

The process of doubling ends with the last drawing frame, but there still remains a process by means of which the drafting of the slivers and the parallelization of the fibres are continued.

From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by Woodhouse, T.

It will be seen from the large pressing rollers that there are two pairs; hence the machine is a "two-head" drawing frame.

From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by Woodhouse, T.