Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-03-24

hSsANS Sah NC IiilHtu All louf minutes WnlCn
used to take an hour and half After the
thread has come out of the drying room,
COLORED OR USCOLORED
1t goes to the warerOoms, where il is counted
and put in packages TO be giv,n out prrpar-
atory 10 being wound upon spools for the
market. The thread having reached this
stage of perfection, has become very yalu-
able and is looked after with the greatest
care. Tickets direct it to its different de-
partments and denote its 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 day after day with Clarks CONT
Spool Cotton, to know by what patient and
constant care the perfect smoothness and
regularity Of the thread was secured. Ii is
now taken to the hank winding department
and wound upon large bobbins, when it is
ready for the last wind upon the spools,
from which it is taken by the consumers for
its thousand us of necessity and utility,
from tying the rag on the boys Whitfield and
bloody finger, to the delicate embroidery Of
the wedding garment.
THE sPooLING DEPARTMENT
The spooling room is a busy place, where
spOols OF thread of all sizes and colors by
tens of thousands are wound every day, two
hundred yards on a spool. The self-actng
spooIing machine is a marvellous piece of
mechanism. The spools are placed in an
iron gutter Ly the operator, when the ma
chine picks them up, puts them on shaft
eight at Il time, winds the thread upon them
at the rate Of three thousand revolutions 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 into boxes
below, picks up eight more 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
II TX Thread Company, was exhibited 10y
them at the Centennial, and with their
magnificent case of goods. was one of the
great attractions amo, g the many wonders
OF the exhibition. from the spooling de.
partmenl, the spoiled thread is taken to
THE wARERooM,
where the b. autitul little label containing
the name, number, etc , f tn thread, is put
on by girl The quickest o. them will put
lH~ Is on the ends Of line or ten thousand in
a day, all of wl.ch have to be moistened bv
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
Alter 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 al
the mills, in Michigan, to the variou.
lengths required, and all that is zone here
is to put the boxes together. A private wire
! H., II
York office, and the line is kept busy il
sending orders and transmitting messages O
tie company. In the short time we were
there several large orders came in from diff
fertnt parts of the country, and among then
were some from Maine, Texas, California
Wisconsin, Oregon, etc. I he Clark Thread
Company sends out annually vast quantitie
of show cards, calendars, etc. some of which
are magnificent specimens OF the Iitho
graphic and printers art.
Is THIS A FAIR COUNT?
The number of feet of draft which on
pound of cotton undergoes is one trillior
seven hundred and seventy-two billion
three hundred and twenty million, six hun
dred and thirty-fve thousand, six hundre
feet, or stated in figures, 1,772 800, 635, 900,
distance Of 1886, All, 1891 miles. The fol
lowing demonstrates the apparently in
credible statement: The web of cotto
from which this immense length of threa
is drawn is forty inches wide. 1t goes t
the carder, where it is drawn to 4x12C
equal to $50 teet. Then the drawing fran
increases it to 4S0x6, equal to $3.50; tn
lapper 2,SS0x2l, equal to 6,4S0; the combe
draws it out To 6,4SJx26, equal to lbs, $50
then it goes to the head drawing frame
where l6S, 480x6 equal to 1,Ol0,S80.
THE SECOND DRAWING FRAME
multipies the last length by six aga
making l,0l0,SS0x6 equal to 6,065, 28(
which repeated on the third drawing fran
makes length of 6,065, 280x6 equal to 36
39l $50 feet. Now comes the first slubbin
frame where 1881 ,6S0x5 is equal to 1871
958, 400; the second slubber 1S1, 1868, 4O0x4
equal to Sl8,Sl2,S00; the intermediate slut
Der ISL ,95S, 400x6 equal to 4,612,S76,S0t
the finishing thread winding machin
makes the total length of the thread 1912
S76,S0x6 equal to 29,477260,S00 Now
goes on the bobbins to the "mill where 20
All, $780, 0Ux9i gives us 272, 664, 662, 400 fee
We then multiply the last number of fee
which states the total length of one poun
of cotton drawn into thread, by the lengt
of the original web, which is six and ha
feet, and have the total as stated befol
272,664, 662, 40Ox6I feet making gran
total OF !, 772, 800, 600 feet The cotto
when finished as yarn, has been doubled 81
million, nine hundred and sixty-seven thol
sand, two hundred and ninety-sx tim,
1885,, 29G) in passing through the diherel
T. processes. When the yarn is made into 81
cord finished thread, the above number
doublings have been multiplied by 81:
making total of 41,S03,762 doubling
Now divide the total draft, 1,772 1927 ,632 90
by the total doublings, and if the work
correct, we shall have the total number
feet of yarn in pound of cotton, which
1897 feet. But there has been 20 pc
cent loss in the manufacture, which must
added, making total of 305 254 feet of yar
for a pound of cotton, or 120 hanks OF 81
yalds each, enoughto reach from New YOr
to Trenton, distance of sixty miles
MACHINE AND CABINET SHOPS, BOX FA,
TORY AND PRINTING HOUSE.
The Clark Thread Company do all the
printing and lithographing at the worl
here. Four printing presses are kept rul
ming all the time, and in the'lithograph d
partment one steam press and six or eigl
hand Autograph presses are continually en-
ployed. In both departments the practiC
of the cart preservative" is in the highe
style. Orders for the paper box departmel
in the one item of straw board are giv,n
high as eighty to one hundred tons at a tim
In the machine shop large number OF me
are employed in making new machinery an
keeping in repair the vast quantity in III
in the various departments of the work
The cabinet factory turns out about tw
hundred cabinets per day. The bobbin
ETC., used in the mill are made here.
fact about all the Clark Thread Compar
go outside for is the raw material. The
manufacture all they use, except few
the more intricate or patented machines.