STRETCHING MACHINE

Cotton goods and other textile fabrics, either white or printed, are prepared for the market by being stretched in a proper machine, which lays all their warp and woof yarns in truly parallel positions. A very ingenious and effective mechanism of this kind was made the subject of a patent by Mr. Samuel Morand, of Manchester, in April, 1834, which serves to extend the width of calico pieces, or of other cloths woven of cotton, wool, silk, or flax, after they have become shrunk in the proce es of bleaching, dyeing, . I regret that the limits of this volume will not admit of its description. The specification of the patent is published in Newton’s Journal, for December, 1835.