Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-28


drying room IN this way five hundred
heads can he rinsed In four minutes which
used to take all hour and half. After the
thread has come out of the drying room,
| CoLoRED OR UNCOLoRED,
it goes to the warerooms, where 1t Isl counted
and put In packag es to be gwen out prepare
| tory to being wound upon spools for the
market. The thread having reached this
stage of perfection, has become very valu.
able, and is looked after with the greatest
care. Tickets direct it to Its different de-
partments and denote it's size, quality, etc.
The inspection and testing of thread is one
OF the most important features in its pro-
duction, and it would surprise the lady who
sews Gay after day with Clark's 90. n. T."
Spool Cotton, to know by Whist patient and
| constant care the perfect smOothness and
| regularity of the thread was secured. 1t is
| now taken to the hank winding department
| and wound upon large bobbins, when 1T Is
ready for its last wind upon the spools
| from which it is taken by the consumers
for its thousand uses OF necessity and utility,
from tying the rag on the boys whitfield
and bloody finger to the delicate embroid-
cry of the wedding garment.
THE sPooLING DEPARTMENT..
The spooIlng-room is busy place, where
spools of thread of all sizes and colors, by
tens of thousands, are wound every day,
two hundred yards on spool. The self
acting spooling- machine is marvellous
piece Of mechanism. The spools are placed
III an iron gutter by the OPERATOR when the
machine picks them up, puts them on
sha5t eieht at time, winds the thread upon
them at the rate of three thousand revolu-
tons per minute, cuts little slot in the
edge of the spool, catches the thread in it.
nips it Off, drops the spools full of thread
haInw joh
empty spools, places, winds and drops them
as before and never makes a mistake.
The machine, which is used in this country
only by the Clark Thread Company, was
exhibited by them at the Centennial, and,
With their magnificent case of goods, was
one of the great attractions among the
many wonders of the exhibition. From
the spooling department, the spoiled thread
is taken to
THE WAREROOM,
where the beautiful little label containing
the name, number, etc, of the thread, is
put on by girls. The quickest of them will
put labels on the ends of nine or ten thou
sand in a day, all of which have to be
moistened by the tongue, placed on the
spool, and then struck by the hand to paste
1t. Some of these girls work about as quick
as lightning. After ticketing, the spoos of
thread are put into boxes of one dozen each.
twenty-five thousand feet of lumber per
month Is cut at the mills, in Michigan, to
the various lengths required, and all that is
done here is to put the boxes together. A
private Wire runs from the works in New
ark to the New York Office, and the line is
kept busy in sending orders and transmit
ting messages of the company. In the
short time we were there several large Or
ders came in from different parts of the
Maine, Texas, California, Wisconsin, Ore
gon, etc. The Clark Thread Company sends
out annually vast quantities of show cards,
calendars, ETC., some Of which are magnif-
cent specimens of the photographic and
printers art.
is THIS A FAIR COUNT?
The number of feet Of draft which one
pound of cotton undergOes is one trillion,
seven hundred and seventy-two billion,
three hundred and twenty million, six hun
dred and thirty five thousand, six hundred
feet or stated in figures, 1,772, 800, 635, 500, a
distance of 1872 ST., 1924 miles. The follow
ing demonstrates, the apparently incredible
statement: The web of cotton from which
this Immense length of thread is drawn is
forty inches wide. 1t goes to the carder,
where it is drawn to 4x120 equal to 480 feet.
Then the drawing frame increases it to
4S0x6 equal to 1850; the 1apper, 2,S80x24,
equal to 6,4S0; the comber draws it out to
64S0x26 equal to 16S, 4S0; then it goes to
the first head drawing frame, where 1885,
4S0x6 equal to 1,010, $50.
THE sKCoND DRAWING FRAME
multiplies the last length by six again
making 1,010, 880x6 equal to 6,065, 280,
which repeated on the third drawing frame
makes length of 6O65, 2SOx6 equal to &c.
391, $50 feet Now comes the first slubbing
frame where SO 391 ,680x5 is equal to 49,
958, 400 the second slubber 181 1868, 4OOx41
equal to 818, 812, 800; the intermediate Stub
Der 181, 958, 4oOx1 equal to 1921, 876, 800, the
finishing thread windiBg machine makes
the total length of the thread 1912, &c., |
8OOx6 equal to 20, Az 260, 800. Now it goes
on bobbins to the 'mill'' where 29, All, $780,
SOOx91 gives us 272,664, 662, 400 feet. We
then multiply the last number of feet which |
states the total length of one pound of cot
ton drawn into thread, by the length of the |
original web, which is six and half feet |
and have the total as stated before, 272,-
664, 662, 400x61 feet making grand total of
1,772, 800, 635, 800 feet. The cotton, wien
flushed as yarn, has been doubled six mil
lion, nine hundred and sixty-seven
thousand. two hundred and ninety-six
times 6967 1856, in passing through the
different processes. When the yarn is made
into six cord finished thread, the above
number of doublings have been multiplied
by six, making total of Al, SO3, 1852 doub-
lings. Now divide the total draft; 1,772,-
327, 632, 900, by the total doublings, and if
the work is correct, we shall have the total
number Of feet of yarn in pound of cot
ton, which is 254, 337 feet. But there has
been 20 per cent loss in the manufacture, !
which must be added making q total of
3o5, 254 feet of yarn for pound of cotton,
or 120 hanks of $40 yards each, enough to
reach from New York to Trenton, dis
lance Of sixty miles.
MACHINE AND CABINET SHOPS, BOX FACTORY
AND PRINTING HOUSE.
The Clark Thread Company do all their
printing and lithographing at the works
here. -Four printing presses are kept run
ming all the time, and in the Autograph de-
partment one steam press and six or eight
hand Autograph presses are continually EN-
ployed. In both departments the practice
of the cart preservative" is in the highest
style. Orders for the paper box department
in the one item of straw board are given as
high as eighty to one hundred tons at a
time. In the machine shop a large number
of men are employed in making new ma
chinery and keeping in repair the vast
quantity in use in the various departments
IF the works The cabinet factory tnrns