The Red Cloud chief., 1877-03-22

roll from the scutchine machine tina;
takes b cotton from the hAles. only
that now IL II soft and delicate "a Is pos
sible 70 conceive. weighing only one
hundred and forty-ive grains 20 the
yard. nine inches wide. II now goes In
rolls TO q wonderful little machine. a
French invention. first introduced in
this country by The Clark Thread Com
pany. II is q refined cArding machine
the product OF which Is IS much SURE
rior in tineness 30 the large carders jus;
described asNthe most elegant silk goods
ARE TO II CoARsEsT COTTON CLOTH
IL is called the French combing ma
chine and is only used by the best thread
makers. and il is very expensive. and
while II makes the thread SUPERIOR In
quality. 1t adds twenty PER cent - the
cost OF manufacture. Six Of the rolls
OF webbing are now passed together
through b combing machine between
two rollers, and coinbed by innumer-
able steel teeth 10 the fineness OF gossa-
mel and the thinness Of a spiders web.
II passes on, Is gathered into one soft
round silver again. goes through roll
lers once more, when il Is coiled into
cans as before. with q loss OF twenty
per cent on the material which com
passed the web when IL was put on the
French machine. 1t is a texture so fine
and soft that n cannot but wonder
how IL bears Its own weight. After the
Lass process, six OF the slivers are again
put through the drawing frame making
one silver no larger than any Of the six
from which 1t is drawn. Then six of
these last are put through the same
process. reducing them in size six times,
and adding that to the length. This is
repeated three times, ard each time
they are cOile0 into cans. The last
silver Is the same size and weight as
when the process begtn. although
doubled four hundred and thirty-ive
thousand, four hundred and fifty-six
times. The last cans are now taken to
II FIRST sLUBBING FRAME,
from which cans they are passed
through rollers. then twisted TO about
the size Of a lead pencil, and wound on
bObblns, all by the same machine. From
this they 60 to the second slubbing
frame. where one hundred and two
spindles on each machine are winding
yarn from two hundred and four bob
bins, which came from the first slubber.
two threads being wound upon one
spool. The next or intermediate Stub.
bling machine winds upon one hundred
and seventy-six spOOls, from three hun
dred fifty-twO bObbins, which came
from the second slubber. The next and
last is called the rowing machine, and
fills two hundred and forty spOols,
which came from four hundred and
eighty bObbins, from the intermediate
slubbing machine. BY this repetition
OF doubling and twisting the yarn is
fast becoming strong and hard. We
now follow the yarn called rowing" u
the self-acting "mule," which makes
eight hundred and forty threads of warn
from sixteen hundred and eighty bob
bins. This wonderful machine, two of
which are operated by one man, draws
out the yarn and twists it from sixteen
hundred and eighty spOOls, when it
comes away, and on its return winds it
on eight hundred cops (spOOls) making
the last number of thread yarn. We
now come to
TIE THREAD MILL.
which is a distinct and Independent de-
partment. The cotton yarn Genes here.
and first goes to the cop winding ma
chimes, where it is run from the cops
through delicate balances. over soft felt
ground, upon bObbins. two threads
together upon One From the cop
winding department, the bObbins 60 To
the singing department, where the two
threads that were u together on the
spool, in the cop winding department..
arc twisted or spun into one thread.
The thread, as 1t is unwOund, runs
through water. and rapidly over glass
guides, and the bObbin which receives
it revOlves five thousand times per
minute, twisting hundreds of threads
IN each machine. After being twisted
two threads together. making one hard
thread, three of the latter ale again run
together on a bObbin. the same ~ in the
first cop winding department. Three of
these are nov twisted together, making
six STRAINS, 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 de-
partment, 1t is inspected with the great
est care, by skillful persons, and put
through several tests before passing the
Keeling department, to be wound in
skeins for the bleach house. The ma
chimes in this department are very Curl
Gus, and daily turn put vast quantities
of thread. which is packed. and given a
through ticket to the bleach and dye
houses. They a 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.
THE THREAD Is CAREFULLY n
GpECTEn 4
the work employing several girls, who
cut all the rough and imperfect thread
from the hanks. After this second in |
spectiOn, we find it next in the bleach
house. The bleach and dye houses are |
among the most interesting depart. |
ments of this vast establishment, al
though not the most agreeable. The |
process in washing machinery, that is
here exhibited, would make our grand
mothers think that the millennium had
come. The baby washer, Is we call it,
of this concern, is rather of a large
child, whose place and uses will appear
later. After the thread is sent from
the inspection department to the bleach
and dye houses, it Is unpacked. counted
and put into large tanks, immense loads
at q time. and boiled by steam for sew
eral hours. which takes out the dirt and I
CLEANS 1T PERFECTLY.
1t is then put through washings Oft,
and preparations wonderful and curl
Gus. The water used, we judge. would
have increased the food 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 4 scale equal in magnitude to any of
Col. Sellers schemes for making mil
lions. The loads Of thread are put in
and taken out of, boilers. finsers, wash
ers. dryers, and half a dozen other pro-
by machinery. Then after ali