Turbine-electric textile-range drives

A TEXTILE RANGE — the definition is offered for the benefit of those who may be unfamiliar with textile parlance — consists of a group of coordinated machines through which a continuous band of cloth is passed in rope or flat form (figure 1). Carrying on, in a group, the maximum number of operations of a textile finishing process which manufacturing conditions will permit lowers the cost of production by reducing the time and labor costs, and improved methods of driving such ranges may lead to still further increases in the production rate per unit of equipment, with attendant reduction in unit cost of production.