A drawing frame is industrial spinning equipment that combines several thick ropes of carded fiber, called slivers, and stretches them between sets of rollers spinning at increasing speeds. This drafting action straightens the fibers, blends different batches for consistency, and produces a single, highly uniform sliver ready for the roving frame.
Heard on the job
We need to run this batch of Egyptian cotton through the drawing frame twice to get the fibers perfectly parallel.
Also heard as
- draw frame