Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-05
in the hands of the workmen, to remove all

in the hands of the workmen, to remove all
roughncss. This is repeated after the fourth
coat. Forty-eight hours after the last coat of
paint is applied, the cloth is in condition for
| painting. This operation is performed in an
upper story. Pads smeared with the several
colors wanted are on revolving tables; over
each pad hangs pot of appropriate paint,
and brush wherewth to apply it to the pad.
BY each table stands two workmen; before
them is a stationary table across which lies
the cloth they are painting, and beyond this
still tier Of racks for the painted goods to
dry On. just as in the paint-room below. The
painting is done from wooden blocks of the
proper pattern, and generally eighteen inches
square. Each block paints only one color, so
that there must be as many blocks as there
are cOi0r;. The workman turns to the re-
yolying table, scizes block from the freshly
painted pad upon which it is lying, lays it
carefully upon the cloth, presses 1t close by
humping it with an iron maui, and returns
i: to the pad. One color being disposed Of,
he pushes the revolving table until it brings
uses block after block until all the colors have
been applied and the figure on that portion OF
the carpet now before him is complete. The
cloth is then drawn forward eighteen inches,
and another section Of it receives the same
treatment. II the cloth is wide, two men
work side by side, each painting half the
width The body Of the paint used in paint
ing the figures is composed of the best oil and
white lead. After the printing, the fabric
lies upon the racks two weeks, at the end OF
which time it is dry enough 10 be rolled W
and carried to the baking honsc. The rolls
Of carpetin. are stood on end partially I'M
rolled 10 admit Dir to all part, Of them. The
temperature of this house is, when the car
pc,ng is first brought in, at - Or 50 d, grC es
Fahrenheit but during the three weeks that
the roll stand here, il is raised to 90 d grees.
| This hardens the fabric sufficiently Tor the
next operation vanishing, winch is done very
mucN like the printing, and by a machine in
vented by the PROJECTORS. A.lcr the yarnish
is dry, the edges OF the cIoeh are pared
straight, the number of The design with which
it is printed is atti ied to the back OF the roll,
ard it is ready for market McssTS. Page,
! Wilder & Co. have introduced several i'm
proN emeuts besides tj.e vanishing machine.
| one OF til m relates to the paint machine.
adjusting is petition that the weight o.
The fabric shall be more uniform. Another IS
the securing machine, another in the trim
ming of the edges. All these applications OF
steam power save labor, and secure accuracy
and uniformity in the finished product. The
use of machinery for printing the figures is,
| however. found to have no advantage beyond
saving Labor; it does well for cheap goods,
Oft is no where used for the first quality. Som
! idea Of the amount OF work done in this cstab
| i>hutent may BE obtained from tie statement
that ton OF white lead, a thousand gallons
Of Hnscpd oil, and many tons OF oehrc are
consumed every two weeks. There are. il is
thought, but ten oii-cloth factories in the
country. Two Of them are in llalowell, one
IN Winthrop, one in Rcadheld, one in Show
hogan. one in New IIamr shire, two in Mdssa-
| chusetts, one in New York and one in New
Jersey. The designs are generally gotten up
in NV York, but the most of the blocks for
Ill these establishments are carved in Hal
lowell