DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION 
677.112 212 
213 
22 
221 
222 
223 
224, 
225 
3 
£2 
- 
19 
+ 
41 
411 
47° 
A172 
43 
46 
48 
7 
Working of long fibers 
Drawing and spinning 
By drawing frames, fly frames, spinning frames, reels 
Twisting processes 
Spooling Twisting Reeling Drying 
Dyeing, bleaching or trying yarns 
Preparing yarn in skeins 
Beating, pegging, separating, weighing, marking, packing 
Preparing yarn in balls 
Lustering, waxing, placing on bobbins for balls, ball warps 
Preparing yarn on bobbins 
Numbering flax yarns 
Weaving processes 
Raw materials of flax industry 
Fibers retted in running water 
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“ « on ground and in open air 
“ by industrial processes 
Machines 
Fer preliminary processes 
Rippling 
Rippling tools: hackles, scutchers, beaters. Rippling machines: 
with cylinders, with scutch blades 
Wooden retting boxes Retting boilers Drying boards 
Breaking and scutching 
Tools for breaking by hand: Flemish mallet or arm breaker, 
hand brake. Machines for mekanical breaking: Picardy breaker 
with rollers, American breaker with fluted cylinders, Cail breaker. 
Tools for hand scutching: scutching board, scutch blade, swingling 
tool, little hand scutch, hackles, flaxdresser’s knife. Machines 
for scutching: Flemish or Irish swingling or scutching machines, 
hackling machines 
For spinning 
Spreders, cutters 
For weaving 
Flax industry products 
Spinning and twisting 
Warp and weft (filling) yarns Medium warp yarns 
Twisted yarns 
Sewing thred. Yarns in skein; 2 or 3 ends per package. Yarns in 
balls, boxes, packages, or on bobbins 
Weaving 
Cloths with plain, square or mixt weavs 
Sheeting, cambric, smock linen. holland, suitings, canvas 
ete. 
Hevy cloth, sail cloth, tarpaulin. : 
Openwork cloth, embroidery canvas, packing cloth 
(burlap), filter cloth or linen etamin 
See also 677.65 Openwork fabrics 
Linen serge, bed ticking, upholsteries, dres goods, etc. 
Damasks Diaperd fabrics 
Prints Ornamental cloths 
Testing and accepting flax manufactures