River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-03-22

TWO hundred and forty spoOls, which came
from four hundred and eighty b0bbins, rom
the intermediate slnbbing machine By this
repStltiun OF doubling and twisting the yarn
= last becoming strong and hard. We now
follow the yarn called ''rOving'' TO the self
acting mule, which makes eight hundred
and forty threads OF yarn from sixteen hum
| dred and eighty bohbins This wonderful
machine, two OF which are operated by one
man draws out the yarn and twists II IRON six
teen hundred and eighty spOOls, whenit comes
| away, and on its return winds il on eight hum
/ bred cops lspoolsl making the last number of
thread yarn. We now come to
THE THREAD MILL,
which IS distinct and independent depart
ment. The cotton yarn comes here, and first
goes TO the cop winding machines, where il is
run from the cop, through delicate balances,
over soft ielt ground, upon bobbins, two
\ threads together upon one
From the cop winding department, the bob
bins 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 IL is unwound, runs through water, and
| rapidly over glass guides, and the bobbin
which receives 1t revolves i've thousand times
| per minute twisting hundreds OF threads ON
each machine. After being twisted two thread
together, making one hard thread, three OF
The latter are again run together on bobbin,
the same as in the first cop winding depart
ment. Three of these are now twisted to-
gether, making six STRAINS, and
THE PROCESS OF TWISTING THEM
is exactly the same as the one last described.
1t is known as the finishing twisting depart
ment. When the thread comes from the
finishing twisting department, it is inspected
with the greatest care, by skillfuI PERSONS.
and put through several tests before passing
the reeling department to be wound in skeins
for the bleach house. The machines in this
department are very curious, aud daily turn
out vast quantities OF thread, which is packed
! and given through ticket to the bleach
and dye houses. They measure
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 with
out variations. Again after coming from the
reels,
THE THREAD IS CAREFULLY INSPECTED,
the work employing several girls, who take
all the rough and imperfect thread from the
hanks. Alter this sesond inspection, we find
it next in the bleach house. The bleach and
dye houses are among the most interesting
departments OF the vast establish
ment, although not the most agreeable. The
progress in washing machinery. 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 large child whose place and uses will
appear later. After the thread is sent from
the inspection department to the bleach and
dye houses, 1t is unpaeked, counted and put
into large tanks, i'm snse loads at 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 10 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 schemes for making millions The
loads of thread are put in and taken ont OF
boilers, rinsers, washers, dryers and nall
dozen other processes by machinery. Then
after ali 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 that which is to remain white, to
the bleach house. In the dye house is the
patent dyeing 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 a capacity of one hum
dred and fifty thousand gallons per day. This
is a remarkable well, sixteen feet deep and
eight feet in diameter, of which Professor
Maynard the New York chemist, said it pro-
duced the purest water he ever saw. 1t makes
L. IL Oh fstx
free from any PARTICLES OF matter by chemical
test The thread is blued ON big scale which
gives that handsome tint so greatly admired
by the ladies. Then it is committed to the
tender mercies of the baby washer, which are
cruel and goes through this ten times. The
baby is built like an ordinary washing machine,
but each of the rollers weighs a thousand pounds
and as the thread passes through the water
into the washer
THEY HOP AND JUMP
and pound with antics queer. but it does the
business thoroughly. This was formerly done
by the Old-fashiOned FOUNDER and barrel which
our grandmothers used TO set US at when we
were boys, before going to school in the morn
ing Then it is drawn through the rinser,
which is q simple and novel machine cOntin-
ually supplied with pure Artesian well water.
The thread passes over roller into the water,
comes up again over anotherrOller, then down
into the water, and up and down, and out and
In, and out and up over the reels into the greet
boxes ON wheels from which it is put into q
large. water extractor, perforated hollow CYL
inder, revolving several thousand times per
minute, and then it is transported t, the dry
ing room. In this way five hundred heads can
be rinsed in tour minutes which used to take
an hour and half. Alter the thread has come
out of the drying room
CoLoRED OF UECoLoRED,
it goes to the warereoms, where it is counted
and put in packages to be given ont prepar-
atory to being wound upon spo0ls Tor the
market The thread having reached this
stage OF perfection, has become very valuable
and is looked alter with the greatest care.
Tickets direct it to its different Departments
and denote its size, quality, etc. The inspec-
ton and testing OF thread is one OF the
most important features in its production, and
it would surprise the lady who sews day after
day with Clark's go. N. T." Spool Cotton, to
know by what patient and constant care the
perfect smoothness and regularity of the
thread was secured. 1t is now taken to the
hank winding department, and wound upon
large bObbins, when it is ready for its last
wind upon the spools, from which it is taken
by the consumers for its thousand uses OF
necessity and utility, from tying the rag on
the bows whitfield and bloody finger, to the
delicate embroidery Of the wedding garment.
THU sPooLrNG 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 hun
bred yards on spool. The self-acting spooling
machine is marvellous piece OF mechanism.
The spools are placed in an iron gutter by the
operator, when the machine picks them up,
puts them on a shaft eight at a 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 eff, drops the spools full
| OF thread into Foxes below, picks up eight
more empty spools, places, winds and drops
them as before, and never makes mistake.
The machine, which is used in this country
| only by The Clark Thread Company, was ex-
hibited by them at the Centennial, and with
! their magnificent case OF goods, was one OF
| the great attractions among the many Won
ders OF the exhibition. From the spooling
| department, the spoiled thread is taken to
THE wARERooM,
where the beautiful little label containing the
! .,,,,,1o- Of. oft the thread is mt on