Cylinder carding machine
Carda mecánica de cilindro
- Date
- 1748 · confidence medium
- Place
- Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Lewis Paul and Daniel Bourn (improved by Richard Arkwright)
- Field
- Tools
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
A machine that combs and aligns cotton or wool fibres between a cylinder and plates studded with metal teeth, turning them into a continuous sliver. It mechanised the step before spinning, previously done by hand cards.
Lewis Paul patented a cylinder carding machine in 1748 and Daniel Bourn, of Leominster, another the same year; Arkwright improved it (1775 patent). Who was first is disputed.
What it led to
- continuous feeding of mechanical spinners
- factory cotton spinning, with Arkwright as the main driver
- industrial scale for carded wool and cotton