Spinning. [COUNTER- 8 + FALLER.] In a cotton-spinning machine or mule, a wire that passes beneath the yarns, when pressed down by the faller-wire, so as to keep the tension uniform. Also attrib.
1836. Ure, Cotton Manuf., II. 156. There is another regulating wire called the counterfaller. Ibid., 186. On the counterfaller shaft [of a mule] are several segments.
1866. Platt, in Proc. Inst. Mech. Engineers, 228. The working of the two faller wires, a second or counter-faller having now been added underneath the threads, which was lifted up for the purpose of taking up the slack in the threads after the backing-off.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 396/2. To keep the yarn at a uniform degree of tension whilst winding … was one of the most difficult problems…. This is now … done by the ‘counter-faller.’
