All cotton contains more or less light dirt and leaf, which it is difficult to entirely remove in the Lappers, on account of the fan draft essential to the formation of a good sheet on the screens carrying some of the lighter impurities along with the cotton.
"Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery"
Howard & Bullough American Machine Company, Ltd.
The low jungle had been cleared, and we saw screens and houses of green thatch and palm leaves.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
President Cleveland-Rose, are you sure the window-screens are in repair?
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson