1894 Patent No. 20,191 wet spinning doubling frames, Girdwood, Broughton Flax

Patent No. 20,191 A.D.1894 Improvements in or relating to Wet Spinning and Doubling Frames

"I, Henry Mercer Girdwood, of Broughton Flax Mills, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Flax Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows: My invention relates to improvements in splash boards for wet spinning and oubling frames for flax and other fibres, and the object of my improvements is to adapt a splash board for protecting the spinner or attendant and the floor from getting wet by the water thrown from the yarn being would upon the bobbins..."

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