Litchfield enquirer., 1867-10-10
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"OLCOIIVlILE.
 Weextract the following, pleasantly wri
 ten description of our northwestern neigl
 DOT from the correspondence of the Har ford Posi-
 The ''vile" is pleasantly situated, nest c llng down among the hills which rise O. D either hand and bisected by the Naugatuc
 rlver. which, at this point, by few rods Ii
 width, winds its rocky way cheerily along : laughing and chattering to itself with pleas ant music. The village proper contain from two thousand to twenty-five hundre' r inhabitants, and
 ITS MANUFACTURES
 are quite extensive in their variety Ther are the Coe Brass Co.,, where almost ever, style of brass-ware is manufactured, tn, Union Manufacturing Co.,, devoted to cas- slmeres and woolen goods, Turner, Sey mour & Judd's hook and eye company. tht Union Hardware Co.,, where mostly skates are manufactured, the old Hartford Silver plate Co.,, which has been removed to thi. place and is under the management of E. 1 W. Sperry,>late of Hartford, and
 THE woLcoTTvILLE MANUFACTURING CO.,. whose factory I had the pleasure of visiting this morning. Caps are the articles manu. factured here-not, however, that style ot cap with which man is accustomed to GOV. CT his chronological bumps" but porous, sion caps, by the sudden explosion of which dire destruction is sent abroad into the land. The principal material from which the articles are made consists of sheet cop- per, which is tightly rolled, the rolls being from one to two feet in width. The sheets are then passed between two heavy rollers, encircled by sharp projections, and are thus cut into smaller strips. These are in turn passed through machine provided with two dies, the first of which cuts the metal into a square cross-shape, and the second ] by driving the center of the cross into an orfice underneath. draws the four arms of the cross tightly together and presses them and the cap falls underneath into recep- tacle provided. They are then removed to the filling establishment, where the pow der, which is manufactured in a building near by, is placed in the cap. A varnish is also here made, in which the articles re- ceive their waterproof quality. IN. B. Your correspondent did not stroll around the powder mill and filling room to any great extent. for fear of sudden termina- tlon of his sojourn by expulsion from the premises" in an upward direction.) The caps are now ready for packing, and re- moved to the packing room, where they are filled into boxes by the hundred. A sieve like apparatus, provided with compart- ments of one hundred holes each, is used for packing. The caps are thrown upon the seive until the holes are filled, a spring is then touched, the caps fall through into five compartments underneath, are poured slle1 eaat 1ntQ .hoxes nsoYided. and are ready for half thousand requires but half a minute. Among the styles manufactured are the regular United States musket cap, Colts pistol caps, and the common "G. D." cap Why this last class is known as "G. ID" and why so called, am unable to ascertain I can think of no better reason than the one which phlegmatic Dutchman gave for his calling his boy "Hans." viz: fbecos dat vas his name." The caps being boxed are thus ready for market and sent off as occa sion requires should mention that the machinery for the manufacture of the arti- cles, is made in machine shop connected with the establishment.
 Yesterday visited the building of
 THE UNION MANUFACTURING CO.,,
 and was kindly conducted throughout the various departments thereof. She atten- tion of this company is turned to the man.
 
 The wool is firsrreceived into the sorting room where experienced hands separate 1t as is required, and it is placed in it's several compartments. About five hundred pounds of wool per day is thus assorted. From the sorters the material passes to the securing room, where it IS thoroughly washed and afterward dried by being placed in swift ly revolving dryer, the water being cast off | through the sieve-like sides. After all moisture is removed, the wool is thorough 1 ly picked ill pieces in the picking machine and is then removed to the carding room, where it is passed through three massive machines, composed of huge rollers revolv- ing in opposite directions. By each of these the wool is closely carded, and on emerging from the final process is wound upon large spools and is ready for spinning. A machine is also provided by which the waste is made servicable being cleansed and carded. The spinning, room presents busy scene to the visitor. Two thousand five hundred and twenty spindles are kept in constant operation, spinning the wool from the spools upon bobbins, from which it is reeled off upon other and larger spools and is taken to the weaving room, where thirty looms chatter with tireless industry After being woven, the wool (now in the form of cloth) is taken to the fulhng room where it is cleaned, and is then passed through the shearing machine, where the the cloth is trimmed and made fine, smooth and glossy. It then goes to the dye vats, where it is cclored as required and thence to the long dry room, traversed by steam pipes, where itis thoroughly dried It is then re-sheared the burs are picked from the cloth, it is folded packed and is ready for sale.
 The buildings of the company are pleas antly situated on the banks of the Nauga. tuck, few rods west of the center of the village. The main factory is one hundred and twenty two feet long. forty-fve wide and is five stories high, surmounted by ar observatory from which an excellent view of the surrounding country is obtained. The drying house is ninety by thirty feet . the dye house and engine room one hun dred by twenty-five, ,and the store house ani office building is eighty feet long, thirty wide and three stories in height, total O nearly four hundred feet in length. Tn, engine is of excellent construction ano workmanship and is from the Putnam
 machine works located in Fitchburg Mass
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