drum windingn.
/ˈdrʌm ˌwʌɪndɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdrəm ˌwaɪndɪŋ/ 1. The action or result of winding rope, yarn, etc., round a cylindrical drum.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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1833 Manch. Guardian 26 Oct. 4/5 (advt.) One drum winding machine, 24 bobbins, with parting barrels.
1920 Brit. Patent 138,192 5 Means for guiding the yarn twisted or doubled by the said spindles and drum winding mechanism.
1923 T. Thornley Middle Processes Cotton Mills xv. 364 This idea..does away with that..equally notorious defect of drum winding, in having the pitch or distance of yarn coils increasing as the cheese diameter increases.
1942 Cumberland (Maryland) Evening Times 6 July 4/6 Yarn Package of the ‘bottle bobbin’ type can be obtained by means of a novel drum winding.
2008 Mod. Asian Stud. 42 176 Drum winding was used especially for coloured yarn.
2. Electrical Engineering. An armature winding in which straight conductors are placed on a cylindrical core so as to run lengthways from one end to the other; the action of making such a winding. Contrasted with ring winding n. at ring n.1 Compounds 2a.
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ring armature1873
drum winding1886
bar-armature1888
shuttle armature1890
shuttle-wound armature1893
slotted armature1902
1886 R. Wormell tr. A. von Urbanitzky Electr. in Service of Man 269 (caption) Principle of drum-winding.
1952 K. C. Graham Small Commutator Motors ii. 32 A drum winding..is the general type of armature winding used in modern armatures.
1995 M. S. Naidu & S. Kamakshaiah Introd. Electr. Engin. xi. 339 Modern armature windings are invariably drum windings.
2010 R. Friedel et al. Edison's Electric Light iii. 55 Page after page was filled with possible alternatives for drum winding.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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