The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22

as it is very expensive and while it make.
the thread superior in quality, il add,
twenty per cent. to the cost of manufacture
Six OF the rolls Of webbing are now passed
together through the combing machine be.
tween two rollers, and combed by innumer.
able steel teeth to the fineness of gossamer
and the thinness of a spiders web. II
passes on, is gathered into one soft round
"sliver again, goes through rollers once
more, when it is coiled into cans as before,
with loss of twenty per cent. on the ma
terial which composed the web when it was
put on the French machine 1t is q tex
ture SO fine and soft that one cannot but
wonder how it bears its own wight. After
the last process, six Of the slivers are again
put through the drawing frame making one
silver no larger than any of the six from
which it 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,
and each time they are coiled into cans.
The last silver is the same size and weight
as when the process began, although doubled
four hundred and thirty-fve thousand, four
hundred and fifty-six times. The last cans
are now taken to
THE FIRST sLUBBING FRAME,
from which cans they are passed through
rollers then twisted to about the size of n
lead pencil, and wound on bobbins all by
the same machine. From this they go to
the second slubbing frame, where one hun
dred and two spindles on each machine are
winding yarn from two hundred and four
bobbins, which came from the first slubber.
two threads being wound upon one spool.
The next or intermediate slubbing machine
winds upon one hundred and seventy-six
srools, from three hundred and fifty-two
bobbins, which came from the second Stub
ber 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 Stub
bing machine. By this repetition of doub-
ling and twisting the yarn is fast becoming
strong and hard. We now follow the warn
called rowing" to the self-acting "mule.'
which makes eight hundred and forty
threads of yarn from sixteen hundred and
eighty bobbins. This wonderful machine
two OF which are operated by one man,
draws out the yarn and twists it from six
teen hundred and eighty spools, when it
comes away, and on lis return winds it on
eight hundred cops (spools) making the
last number of thread yarn. We now come
THE THREAD MILL,
which is distinct and independent depart
ment. The Gotten yarn comes here, and
first goes to the cop winding machines,
where it is run from the cops, through deli
cate balances, over soft felt ground. upon
bobbins, two threads together upon one.
From the cop winding department, the bob
bings go to the singing department, where
the two threads that were run together on
the spool, in the cop winding department.
are twisted or spun in one thread. The
thread, as it 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 on each machine. After b, ing
twisted two threads together, making one
hard thread, three OF the latter are again
run together on bobbin, the same as in
the first cop winding department. Three of
these are now twisted together, making six
strans, and
THE PROCESS OF TWISTING THEM
is exactly the same as the one last de-
scribed. 1t is known as the finishiug twist
ing department. When the thread comes
from the finishing twisting department, it is
inspected with the greatest care, by skillful
persons, and put through several tests be-
fore passing the reeling department, to be
wound in skeins for the bleach house The
machines in this department are very curl
Gus, and daily turn out vast quantities of
thread, which is packed, and given
through ticket to the bleach and dye houses
They measure off the thread into skcins 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 conf
ing from the reels,
THE THREAD is CAREFULLY INSPECTED
the work employing several girls, who take
all the rough and imperfect thread from the
hanks. After this second inspection we
find it next in the bleach house. The bleach
and dye houses are .mong the most inter-
estlng departments of this vast establish
ment, although not the most agreeable
The progress in washing machinery, that is
here exhibited, would make our grand
mothers think that the millennium had
come. The baby washer, as we call it, of
this concern, is rather large child, whose
place and uses will appear later After the
thread is sent from the inspection DEPART
ment to the bleach and dye houses, it is
unpacked, counted and put into large tanks,
immense loads at a time, and boiled by
steam FOR several hours which takes out the
dirt and
CLEANS 1T 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 scale equal in magnitude to any OF
Col. Sellers schemes for making millions.
The loads of thread are put in and taken
out OF boilers, rinsers, washers, dryers and
half 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 regulated to
any desired temperature. After leaving
the reeling department, the thread that is
to be colored goes to the dye house, and
tina; which is to remain white, to the bleach
house. In the dye house is the patent dye-
ing machine, used only to dye black. 1t
does the work far better than by hand and
is equal to the labor of more than dozen
men.
ALL CoLoRS OF THREAD
are made, and the quantities of soaps, dye
stuffs, and other material of the kind USED,
are immense. Eighty thousand gallons of
water are consumed daily in the bleach
house alone, and one of the Artesian wells
OF The Clark Thread Company has capa-
city of one hundred and fifty thousand gal
Ions per day This ia n rem RI hla ,1al