Doffer

The roll of webbing _A_ is beaten and transferred to the cylinder _H H_, carded by the spiked belt _E_, removed by the "doffer" and formed into a ❋ Kate Heintz Watson (N/A)

The cotton bales are opened and thrown into the automatic feeder which carries up a layer of cotton on a spiked apron from which it is removed by a rapidly revolving "doffer" underneath which is a screen which catches some of the dirt. ❋ Kate Heintz Watson (N/A)

Women, held in Washington in 1888, Mrs. H.H. Robinson, after telling how she entered the Lowell Mills as a "doffer," when a child, gave a brilliant description of the intellectual life and interests of the workers. ❋ Helen Campbell (1878)

She ran huge, dangerous, dirty machines on a shift system, and, at 13, was a supervisor (doffer) over a whole floor of other (mostly female) workers. ❋ Helen Howes (2009)

The cylinder would turn this way and the doffer would turn this way, and the doffer would take it off and bring it around and make ❋ Unknown (1979)

That dust would accumulate in the doffer as it turned between the doffer and the cylinder. ❋ Unknown (1979)

In the mill, since he was such a good doffer, did people look up to him? ❋ Unknown (1979)

DAVIDSON: Put up a red flag for the loom fixer, a yellow flag for the filling, and green flag for the cloth doffer. ❋ Betty Davidson (1979)

Paul was a doffer, and if they caught up with their frames before some of them were full enough to be doffed off, if they wanted to run to the store they could go to the store and come back, and like that. ❋ Unknown (1976)

To this was afterwards added a Cottontown school for the younger children, who before had been slaves to the spinner and doffer carts. ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)

Gray at the age of eight entered the old Stowe Mill, at Pinhook, Gaston County, N. C., as a doffer boy, at ten cents a day. ❋ Unknown (1921)

W.L. Heffner, Jr., was initiated into cotton mill work as a doffer for the munificent sum of ten cents a day. ❋ No Author (1920)

-- Bottom right, that of Secretary and Treasurer C.A. Rudisill; who started as a doffer at 10 cents a day. ❋ No Author (1920)

For instance, there was Lewis Paul's carding engine; he introduced that into Lancashire and added to it a stripping comb, or doffer, that made it about fifty per cent. better than it ever had been before. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)

The doffer boys work intermittently and much has been made of the fact that when they have replaced the empty spools ❋ Unknown (1913)

These doffer boys were photographed at the noon hour. ❋ Alexander Jeffrey (1909)

George (largest) doffer, has worked three years at night. ❋ Alexander Jeffrey (1909)

Frank (smallest) doffer, has worked two years at night. ❋ Alexander Jeffrey (1909)

Sounds of music reached her, the rumble of marching feet; dark, massed figures were in the distance swimming toward her along the glistening line of the car tracks, and she heard the shrill whistling of the doffer boys, who acted as a sort of fife corps in these parades -- which by this time had become familiar to the citizens of ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)