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Cardminder delete card3/6/2023 ![]() box tenter (cotton) (i) card box tenter attends to back part of carding engine, i.e., box part, between doffer and coder, cleaning it, and keeping it clear of fly (waste fibre thrown off in carding) and grease (ii) see draw frame tenter. to comber overlooker ( 353) sometimes specifically designated, e.g. box tenter (wool combing) watches one of a series of machines, called boxes, used in combing wool, or in preparatory processes, either a strong box, a preparing box, or a gill box reports faulty work, bent pins, variations in speed, etc. box and Derby tenter (cotton waste) is employed in waste spinning mills, as attendant both on draw box (in draw frame) and on Derby doubler mends slivers on draw frame when broken in drawing process, and feeds doubler with these slivers, which are combined therein to form a lap. bobbin and fly frame tenter see fly frame tenter. billy tenter attends to front of finisher or condenser carding engine, taking off condenser bobbins, and conveying them to mule spinning frame cf. mends or pieces broken rovings creels bobbins, oils machine and keeps it clean by removing pieces of flax takes away full bobbins a general term, covering jack tenter, slub frame tenter, fly frame tenter, etc. big tenter is principal attendant on a frame or machine, where more than one is employed starts and stops machine assisted by little tenter ( 399) q.v. double drawing hand attends to delivery end of one drawing frame and feeding end of another breaks off sliver as can becomes full carries can to feeding end of second machine and passes end of sliver through guides. bank watcher (i) (cotton) places cotton waste in hopper of bank machine, which weighs it and discharges it automatically on to travelling lattices of carding engines in preparation for spinning (ii) (woollen), see bank minder. bank watcher (woollen carding) watches second or third machine in series of wool carding machines reports faulty work to carding engineer ( 353) oils machine and keeps it clean. ball machine minder (jute) as for bailer attends machine which winds sliver (from breaker card) into cheese-shaped balls, ready for running into finisher cards. ![]() baller, balling head minder, balling machine minder (wool combing) makes up comber wool into balls, or tops, in readiness for spinning attends to balling head of a gill box stationed at back of machine, removes sliver when formed into a ball in gill box carries balls to next machine, e.g., drawing frame sometimes specifically designated, e.g. balling finisher minder see finisher (wool combing). backwasher, backwasher minder, backwasher tenter, backwash minder passes wool slivers through back-washing machine, which reconditions them, by addition of oil, cleanses them, and improves their colour. *For carder (male) in sense of carding master-so used regularly in cotton trade, and occasionally in other textile industries i>see Code No. ORDER XII.-TEXTILE WORKERS Sub-order 1.-Textile Workers 363.-Card, Comb, and Frame Tenters (not Ring or Cap Frames) Box Minders A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921.
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