13 Facts About Spinning mule

Spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres.

The mule was the most common spinning machine from 1790 until about 1900 and was still used for fine yarns until the early 1980s.

Spinning mule jenny allowed a group of eight spindles to be operated together.

Hand-operated Spinning mule was a breakthrough in yarn production and the machines were copied by Samuel Slater, who founded the cotton industry in Rhode Island.

Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule in 1779, so called because it is a hybrid of Arkwright's water frame and James Hargreaves' spinning jenny in the same way that mule is the product of crossbreeding a female horse with a male donkey.

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The spinning mule has a fixed frame with a creel of cylindrical bobbins to hold the roving, connected through the headstock to a parallel carriage with the spindles.

Spinning mule sold the rights to David Dale and returned to weaving.

Spinning mule was in conversation with John Kennedy about the possibility of a self-acting mule.

Spinning mule attached gears and a clutch to implement this motion.

Spinning mule wool is a different process as the variable lengths of the individual fibres means that they are unsuitable for attenuation by roller drafting.

The piecers would enter under the yarn sheet with a scavenger cloth on the carriage spindle rail and a brush on the roller beam, and run bent double the entire length of the Spinning mule, avoiding the rails and draw bands, and not letting themselves touch the yarn sheet.

The Spinning mule was 130 feet long, the minder's eyesight might not have been good, the air in the mill was clouded with fly and another minder's boys might have been mistaken for his.

Spinning mule inventions were significant in enabling a great expansion to occur in the production of textiles, particularly cotton ones.