The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1858-09-18
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Planters.
My patent is for and is named, ss An I'm
prnVeilent IN the Manufacture OF Yarns ant
the machinery with which 7 effect is,
My l%ieriaal hrVdile, ~isyeuer and TrcbIer
Cards, drawing Frames, Rowing Frames
spinning fFalhes, Reels aud Press.
My process S, The seed cetton is fed to m,
hernia lrodjie--tlnS cards The lint from II.
seed inates taNd passes it in a IS inch wild.
sheet around a lay stick. The cotton Of mi,
Jap is passed through the segment machine
spun, lceied aud bftled, aud the fibre is moi
lnndltd by ~ lsalnan being frun the feeding The
hcrmaphrodste anti after ii is spun and taken
of IL hanks from the reels. The operatives ia
attend this machinery and spin. say eeual to a
crop OF 43o bales OF cotton Per 'annnm, or GOO
pounds of yarn per day, are z, and coasjderinp
Their old age or Infancy, is not equivalent 10
nine good hands. The entire cost and express
OF the machinery for this amount of work is
less than $4,000, The machinery for less worl,
costing less, and for more costing more and
the number Of operatives is IesScned or in.
creased IN proportion to the amount to be
spun. or amount of machinery, over or under
his leleriei to. We have liuored and cri,ea
The story above the basement of the former
gin house, a room al by 10 feet, and ii 90 foot
room IN the basement holds it all.
With this process Of niue aid machinery 7
make yarns of any desir.d size, aud completely
sulercede the entire and laborious process af
ginning, and packing and baling The cron Of
the Plantation, the Sampling and RESEMBLING in
anr w and the foreign ports, the conn essine
IA Tue nome ports, the transportation from the
l"felgn ports to the factories, aud from them,
10 The markets, the opening the bales Mt tba
factories, and the running the cotton throueh a
machine there called the Devil, invented for the
purpose OF !oosening aud opening the matted
mass INTO which the cotton fiber from its nature
had become tangled by having been pressed in
to bales. | economics the commissions the
spinner pays for bnying his cotton, the canitnI
he must have TO buy his machinery and his
cotton with, TO pay the ever so cbeap waves nj
ms "verseers, clerks, managers, his ever ca
C reap fuel 10 run his machinery with and tba
capital he must have too for his site and bnild
legs. The machinery of ginning and b,iina
OF plantation, the cotton presses ,ftha r;t;aS9
and t is devil OF The factory | also sunerepda
aud, wat is very important too. snDarrad.
both the lint room Of The gin. house mud tba tnt
room OF the factory. In Il word all lhesr ARA.
N'I iEiV''ed 10 expenses and
capital, ] ecnnumi2e, exclude from usn mud thn
eh''re renaii'ier OF tle factory process, Of
spreading 'aIdins. drawing, doubling. rowing.
spinning, reei a ana eailiag are merged in my
ihVentioh' aug make the same capital, the
power, the labor measurab!v ineffac,,,a ~
children and ome Of the plantation, and the
expenses the planter is AT and mnst ,ncur :" to
RAISE GIN aud onie The cotton, to spin and bale
it by my process into yarns.
II Is the grand idea of this economy, this
Froht and tins superiority Of yarns [ have in.
vented ana effected by a system of machinery
which | describe, but agreeable to ths ,ar,;,
OF my patent and preferred machinery, fills nv
aud invention.
The cotton falling into no lint room, In,
passing rom the seed continuously into warns.
'he FISK from IRE on the plantations. steam