doffer

A doffer could achieve success if he had enough energy and ability.

While working as a doffer, she also attended evening classes.

In modern mills, a machine called a doffer may do this task.

Most of the remaining child workers were doffer boys.

The fiber would then be removed from the doffer by a comb.

A mechanical doffer system reduced the doffing time to 30-35 seconds.

Being a woman and coming from a low-income family, she found a part-time job as a spinning doffer at a yarn processing company.

He said the mill employed some young boys around fifteen years old as doffers, but the average doffer was aged thirty.

However, the ring doffer was relatively inefficient.

The team was reduced to one spinner and one piecer, with the position of doffer eliminated.

In a wool mill a doffer would move relatively slowly compared to the surface of the carding cylinder, picking up the fiber.

(The doffer's job was at the end of the spinning process, replacing bobbins which had filled with thread with empty ones).

By 1900 in Crown Mills, Whitfield County, Georgia, the average doffer was fourteen years old.

The seed-cotton is then removed from the spindles by a counter-rotating doffer and is then blown up into the basket.

The doffer is set with pins that hold the fiber, which is then removed by a comb or knife and fed into the next stage of production.

He is an ex-teacher, ward orderly, hot potato merchant, encyclopaedia salesman and a doffer in a Yorkshire mill, although writing was always his passion.

Gray started work as a doffer before the Civil War when aged eight, earning ten cents a day in a mill at Pinhook, North Carolina.

The slowly turning doffer removes the fibres from the swift and carries them to the fly comb where they are stripped from the doffer.

This doffer would feed a system of rollers that could feed the fiber onto spools or into machines that would immediately twist it into a thread.

He later became a bobbin doffer - responsible for removing and replacing full bobbins - in a Yorkshire mill in Sir Titus Salt's model village.

Some people have given credit to Richard Arkwright for inventing the doffer, which was incorporated in his machine, but others consider that it was invented by James Hargreaves.

A doffer is someone who clears full bobbins, pirns or spindles holding spun fiber such as cotton or wool from a spinning frame and replaces them with empty ones.

Ralph's father died when James three years old, who as the eldest of three sons was set to work at the age of six-and-a-half as a doffer in a cotton mill.

As a child, Dudley harboured a desire to become an actor, but after leaving school, he began his working life as a doffer in a local mill - but this job lasted only two days.

A breakthrough was made with the ring doffer, where the surface was covered by alternating continuous rings of clothing about an inch wide, separated by spacing rings of some material like leather.