The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-01-24

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SPINNING COTTON on pLANTA.
TIONS.
The recent invention of Mr.. George G
Henry, for spinning cotton before il leaves
the plantation may he looked upon as second
IN Importance only to the invention Of the scot
ton gin Should the invention ACCOMPLISH
fully the object for which it is designed the
result will be an immense iucrcnso ir the
value Of the cotton crop to the South, and Il
great addition to the wealth of the country
We lind in the New York Joarnal of Comm rec
an interesting communication from Spinner"
which gives IN account OF the 0,o,lWs operaQM
OF the invention, particularizing the benefits to
accrue from il. BY the present process Of pre-.
pir'''g cotton for market, it retains more or
less leaf, trash, &c., which the Gin did not re-
move, and 1t becomes entanglcd and matted
together in baling, so that before it can be
span 1t Is necessary to run it through several
machines IN order to diSentanglc it and remove
the foreign substances. TO do this it is first
run through machine called picker with II
cylandcr that rcyolves three hundred times
q minute and is armed with strong iron teeth.
1t is then taken through the lap mnchiecs,
which have two or three bentcrs revolving
some twehty-one or twenty-five hundred times
minnie. She fiber is passed through two of
these in many factories, from whence it il taken
to a set OF carders, and often through another
set TO finish for the drawing, heads, &C.
The improvements consist in attaching the
lap machine to to the Gin, and so arranging
the spinning machinery in connection, that
from the gin and lap the cotton is taken on
through tile different machines used in the
process Of spinning, without any handling from
the time it enters the gin until the yarn Y but
into bales. Among the advantages Of this
process is the fact that tie gin is not required
to Gin over one-third the quantity Of cotton
that gins now do, bccpuse there will be 10 ne
ccssily for the present haste to get it to mar
kct, and thus the gin will do its work much
better, TO the Improvement of the cotton
The cotton as now thrown out from the rim. is
IN IA very open, straight and flexible condition
and by the present improvement will be taken
just in that condition from the gin, and piSstg
on through the lap and other preparations and
spun, without going into lint room, being
baled, or reopcned, &c. Says the writer:
1T will strike every one very forcibIy, that
taking the fiber when thus open and loose. to
have the impurities abstractri from it. us this
fiber has not graSped or tangled itself about
them, The trash and impurities fall easily, free
" and naturally, from the fibcrs, precludng
the necessity OF the tearing brniSng and pui.
verlAing minipnlaton it nov requires to cleanse
and open it, and with all which it is still very
iml'criecty done. Besides taking the cotton
Just from the seed, it is oily and elastic, and
works far more kindly into yarns then, than it
ever afterwards viii. j must be here stated
that IN running Inc cotton through IL gin us
rapidly us il is Eow run, in the necessarily ran.
nlng il through the picker IN the cotton fuclo-
ricS 10 open and dscnntlnglr it, and the con
timed severe manipulatios Il has to undergo
N the further operations Of HE beating in the
lap machines, aid extra c,rdjng besides The
asrrrtaned large amount OF " str, some seyen-
teen per cent, which now ilios of III conSe-
4hhte OF this treatment, II Large quantity Of
broken up, INITIATED and iHnin,iraIIy destroyed
ilbre enters into the yarn. and Of which it is
largely composed.
And herein Stands out in bold relief the
great improvements that the waste by Mr.
llcnrys process is diminished nj least ten per
cent, and the yarn being made Of rompnru
lively Hnhrokcn and aumueialti iI2r IS lui-
hloIf stronger, aud iiDrr yarns eau b. made
ont oT it with greater ease We Al, kIoV tAr
lengih OF the Iibla Is what gives strength to
Tie yarl-aNd the less IFS manipulation the
less the lbrs breaks and tIlr les, o. the downy
substance by which il Is Serr;ltel you remove.
And 10 tins doNMy substance may he ascribcd
the adhesion or affinity Of fiber for fiber which
makes the yarn Of cotton the king Of textiles.
by hi. Invention it is claimed there can be
manufactured Il yarn fifty per cnt. better
than can be made by present nlntaod. and
winch VIII secure the markets OF the world,
dciyng competition. The machinery nln br
arranged on tIlc PLATFORM ~Ilra
the cotton is ginned, and very litle aildtlona!
power to that which gins the staple VIII suffice
to SPIN it also. One skiIIfll cardcr and spin
ner can SHperintend half II dozen plantations,
while the women and children on each plnnta
ton will be sufficient to spin mp the crop
Among other improvements resulting irO,l the
invention, the following are enamerael:
Cotton being spun into yarns, IS 50 com
pressed that the same number Of thatnOW Gov
er over II steamboat exposing it TO wet and
llre can, on the same sized boat, be slowed