The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-03-29

now passed tOgetherthrOugh the comblng
machine between two rollers, and combed
by innumerable steel teeth TO the fine
ness of gossamer and the thinness Of a
spiders web. 1t passes on, is gathered
into one soft round silver" again, goes
through rollers once more, when il is
cOiled into cans as before, with a loss OF
twenty per cent. on the material which
composed the web when it was put on
the French machine. 1t is a texture 30
fine and soft that one cannot but wonder
hOwit bears its own weight. After the last
process, six of the sliyers are again put
through the drawing frame making one
silver no larger than any Of the six from
which il is drawn. Then six Of these last
are putthrOugh the same process reducing
them in size six times, and adding that 10
the length. This is repeated three times,
and each time they are coiled into can
the last silver is the same size and weight
as when the pr sess began, although doub.
led four hundred and thirty-fv thousand
four hundred and ffry-six times. The
last can are now taken to
THE FIRST sLUBBISG FRAME,
from which cans they are passed through
rollers, then twisted to about the size OF a
lead pencil, and wound on bobbins, all by
the same machine. From this they 90 TO
th%esecond slubbing frame, where one hun.
bred and two spindles on achmachine are
winding yarn from two hundred and four
bobbins, which came from the frstslubber,
two threads being wound upon one spool.
The next or intermediate slubbing ma.
chine winds upon one hundred and sev-
enty-six spools, from three hundred and
fifty-two bobbins, which came from the
second slubber. Thenextand last is called
the rowing machine, and fills two hundred
and forty spools, which came from four
hundred and eighty bobbins, from the in
termediate slubbingmachine. BY thisrep-
etition of doubling and twisting the yarn
isfdst becoming strongandhard. Wenow
follow the yarn called rowing to the self
acting "mule," which makes eight hun.
bred and forty threads of yarn from six
teen hundred and eighty bobbins. This
wonderful machine, two of which are 0p-
Grated by one man, draws out the yarn and
twists it from sixteen hundred and eighty
spools, when it comes away, and on its re-
turn winds it on eight hundred cops
(spools) making the last number of
thread yarn. We now come to
THE THREAD MILL,
which is a distinct and Independent de-
partment, Thecotton yarn comeshere and
first goes 10 the cop winding machines,
where it isrun from the cops, through del
icate balances, over soft felt ground, upor
bobbins, two threads together upon one.
From the cop winding department, the
bobbins go to the singing department,
where the two threads that were run to-
gether on the spool, in the cop winding
department, are twisted or spun in one
thread. The thread, rs it is unwounG,
ruus through water. and rapidly over
glass guides, and the bobbin which re-
ceives it revol~es five thousand times per
minute, twisting hundreds of threads on
each machine. After being twisted two
threads together, making one havd thread,
three Of the latter are again run together
on a bobbin, the same as in the first cop
winding department. Three of these are
now twisted together, making six strands,
and
THE PROCESS OF TWISTING THEN
is exactly the same as the one last de-
scribed. 1t is known as the finishing
twisting department. When the thread
comes from the finishing twisting depart
ment, it is inspected with the greatest
care, by skillful persons, and put through
several tests before passing the reeling
department to be wound in skeins for the
bleach house. The machines in this de-
partment are very curious, and daily turn
out vast quantities of thread, which is
packed, and given a through ticket to the
bleach and dye houses. They measure off
the thread into skeins of an exact length
and size, and when they have reeled off
just the right amount of yarn, always
stop, and unlike some kind Of yarners,
they never forget to tell the same story
without variations. Again, after coming
from the reels,
THETHREAD Is CAREFULLY INSPECTED,
the work employing several girls, who
take all the rough and imperfect thread
from the hanks. After this second inspec.
ton, we findit next in the bleach house.
The bleach and dye houses are among
the most interesting departments of this
vast establishment although not the most
agreeable. The progress in washing me-
chinery, that is here exhibited, would
make our grandmothers think that the
millennium had come. The baby washer,
as we call it, Of this concern, is rather a
large child, whose place and uses will ap-
pear later. After the thread is sent from
the inspection department TO the bleach
and dye houses, il is unpacked, counted
and put into large tanks, immense loadsat
a time, and boiled by steam for several
hours, which takes out the dirt and
CLEANS TT PERFECTLY.
1t is then put through washings oft,
and preparations wonderful and curious.
The water used, we Judge, would have
increased the flood Just about enough to
have lifted Noah's ark from the snag on
Mount Ararat. Some of the wash tubs
are of stone, and all are on a scale equal
in magnitude to any OF Col. Sellers
scheme for making millions. The loads of
thread areput in and taken outof boilers,
%rinsers, washers, dryers, and half a dozen
other processes by machinery. Then,
after all this, it goes right back to those
huge steam boilers, and the same thing
is done over again. The dry room is
heated by seven thousand five hundred
feet of steam pipe,and can be regulatedto
any desired temperature. After leaving
the reeling department, the thread that
is to be colored goes to the dye house,and
that which is TO remain white, to the
bleach house. In the dye house is the
patent dying machine, used only TO dye
black. 1t does the work far better than
by hand, and is equal to The laborof more
than a dozen men.
ALL CoLORs or THREAD
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