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

supplied with pure ATteslan well water.
The thread passes over a roller into the
water, comes mp again over another roller
then down into the water, and up and
down, and out and in, and out and over
the reels into the great boxes ON wheels,
from which il is put into a large water
extractor, a perforated hollow cylinder,
revolving several thousand times permin-
ute, and then il Is transported to the dry
ing room. In this way five hundred heads
can be rinsed in four minutes which used
10 take an hour and n half. After the
threaI has come out of the drying room,
COLORED OF USCOLOBED,
it goes to the wareroOms, where II Is
counted and put into packages TO be given
out preparatory TO being wound upon
spools for the market. The thread hay
ing reached this stage of perfection, has
become very valuable and is looked after
with the greatest care. Tickets direct it
TO its different departments and denote
its size, quality, etc. The inspection
and testing OF thread is one Of the most
important ieatuJe in its production, and
il would surprise the lady who sews day
after day with Clark's 40. n. T." Spool
Cotton, to know by what patient and con.
slant care the perfect smOothness and
regularity of the thread was secured. II is
now taken to the hank winding depart.
ment and wound upon large bobbins, when
il is ready for its last wind upon thespools,
from which il is taken by the consumers
70" its thousand uses of necessity and util-
ity, from tying the rag on the boys whit
tied; and bloody finger, TO the delicate
embroidery Of the wedding garment.
THE sPooLIEG DEPARTMENT.
The spooling room lisa busy place, where
spools of thread OF all sizes and colors by
tens ofthousands are wound every day, two
hundred yards on aspool. The selfacting
spooling machine is a marvellous piece of
mechanism. The spools are placed in an
iron gutter by the operator, when the ma
chine picks them up, puts them on a shaft
eightatatime winds the thread upOnthem
at the rate of three thousand revolutions
per minute, cuts a little slot in the edge of
the spool, catches the thread in it, nipsit
of, drops the spools full of thread into
boxes below, picks upeightor more empty
spools, places winds and drops them as be-
fore, and never makes a mistake. The ma
chine, which is used in this countryonlyby
The CLARK Thread Company was exhibited
by them at the Centennial, and with their
magnificent case Of goods, was one of the
great ttractionsamong the many wonders
of the exhibition. From the spooling de-
partment, the spoiled thread is taken TO
THE WAREROOM,
where the beautiful little label contain
ing 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
thousand in a day, all of which have to be
moistened by the tongue, placed on the
spool, and then struck with the hand to
paste it. Some of these girls work about
as quick as lightning. After ticketing,
the spools of thread are put into boxes
of one dozen each. They are then ready
for packing. About 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 Newark to the
New York Office, and the line is kept
busy in sending orders and transmitting
messages of the company. In the short
time we were there several large orders
came in from different parts of the coun-
try, and among them were some from
Maine, Texas, California, Wisconsin,
Oregon, etc. The Clark Thread Compa.
ny sends out annually vast quantities of
show cards, calendars, etc, some of which
are magnificent specimens of the litho.
graphic and printers art.
is THIS A FAIR COUNT?
The number of feet of draft which
one pound of cotton u%ndergoes is one
t%rillion, seven hundred and seventy-two
billion, three hundred and twenty mil.
lion, six hundred and thirty-hve thou
sand, six hundred feet, or stated in
figures, 1,772,3 1920, 635, 600, a distance
of 335,477, 1921 miles. The follow
ing demonstrates the apparently in
credible statement The web of cotton
from which this immense length ofthread
is drawn is forty inches wide. 1t goes to
the carder, where it is drawn to 4xl20
equal to $50 feet. Then the drawing frame
increases it to 4S0x6, equal to 1850; the
lapper %2,S80x2i, equal TO $3.50; the
comber draws it out to & ,4S0x26, equal to
16S,4S0; then it goes to the first head
drawing frame, where 16S, 4S0x6 equal to
1,010,SS0.
THE SECOND DRAWING FRAME
multiplies the last length by six again
making l,01O, SSOx6 equal to 5000, $50,
which repeated ON the third drawing
frame makes alengt of 6,065 2S0x6 equal
36,39l, $50. Now comes the first slubbing
frame where 36 39l, GS0x5 isCqual to ISL !
95S, 400; thesecond slubber1 ISL ,96S, 4G0x4l
equal TO 8lS,Sl2,S00; the intermediate
slubber Isl, 95S, 400xG equal oI,Gl2, So
800; the finishing thread windingmachine
makes the total length of the thread t.
9l2, 876, S00x6 equal to 29,477, 260, 300,
Now it goes OF bobbins to to the mill
where 29,477, 260, 800x9l gives us 272,-
ga, 662,4 400 feet. We then multiply the
last number of feet which states the total
length of one pound ~ofcotton drawn into
thread, by the length of the original web,
which is six and a halt feet, and have
the total as stated before 272,6 &c.,
400x6I feet, making a grand total of L.
1890, 635, 900 feet. The cotton, when
finished as yarn, has been doubled six
millien, nine hundred and sixty-sev-
en- thousand, two hundred and ninety
six times (6,967, 296), in passing through
the different processes, When the
yarn is made into six cord flushed thread, the
above number Of doublings have been mul.
tiplied by six making a total OF AIS 7,7c9
douhlinps, Now divide the total draft. l..
1881, 632, 500, by the total doublings and II
tho work is correct, we shall have the total
number of feet of yarn in a pound Of cotton,
which is 254,SS7 feet. But there has been 20
per c%ent.loss in the manufacture which must
be added, making a total Of 305,25i feet of
yarn for a pound Of cotton, or 100 hanks of
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