The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
used to take an hour and half. After the
thread has come out of the drying room,
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IL goes TO the wnrerooms, where 1T ls counted
and put in packages TO be given out prepar-
atory to being wound upon spools for the
market. The thread having reached this
stage OF perfection, has become very valu-
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. 1t 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 ia taken by the consumers for
its thousand uses 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
spoos of thread of all sizes and colors by
tens OF thousands are wound every day, two
hundred yards on spool. The self-acting
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
eight at 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 mistake. The machine,
which is used in this country only by The
Clark Thread Company, was exhibited bv
them at the Centennial, and with their
magnificent case of goods, was one of the
great attractions among the many wonders
of the exhibition. From the spooling de-
partment, the spoiled thread is taken to
THE wARERooM,
where the beautiful little label containing
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 thou
sand in 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 pack
ing. 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 wrr 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 country, and among them were some
from Maine, Texas, California, Wisconsin.
Oregon, etc. The Clark Thread Company
sends out annually vast quantities of show
cards, calendars, ETC., some of which are
magnificent specimens of the lithographic
and printers art
Is THIS IS A FAIR COUNT?
The number Of feet of draft which one
pound of cotton undergoes is one trillion,
seven hundred and seventy two billion,
three hundred and twenty million, six hun.
dred and thirty-fve thousand, six hundred
feet, or stated in figures, 1,772320, ,635, ,600,'a
distance OF 335,477, 1921 miles. The fol
lowing demonstrates the apparently in
credible statement The web of cotton
from which this immense length of thread
is drawn is forty inches wide. 1t goes To
the cardsr, where it is drawn to 4x12O
equal to 4S0 feet. Then the drawing frame
increases it to 4S0x6, equal to $780, the
lapper 2,SSOx2i, equal to 6,4S0; the comber
draws it out to 64S0x26, equal to 16S, ,4SO:
then 1t goes to the first head drawing frame
where lGS, ,4SOx6 equal to l,0l0,SS0.
TIE SECOND DRAWING FRAME
multiplies the last length by SIX again
making 1,Ol0,SS0x6 equal to 6,065,2S0
which repeated on the third drawing frame
makes a length OF 6065, ,2S0x6 equal to So
39l $50 feet. Now comes the first slu5bing
frame where 36,39l ,6>0x5 is equal to 49,
93S, 400; the second slubber 1Sl 96S 4O0x4I
equal to S1S,Sl2,S00; the intermediate
slubber lSl, ,95S ,400x6 equal to 4,6l2S76,.
500; the finishing thread winding machine
makes the total length of the thread 4,Gl2,-
S16,S0xG equal to 29477, ,260, 800. Now it
goes on bobbins to the "mill" where 90
A., ,26O, ,SO0x9l gives us 272,664, ,G62, 400 feet.
We then multiply the last number of feet
which states the total length of one pound
OF cotton drawn into thread, by the length
OF the original web, which is six and a half
1eet, and have the total as stated before
2I2664 662, 4OOx69 feet making grand
total of ,772,320, ,635,600 feet. The cotton,
when finished as yarn. has been doubled six
million, nine hundred and sixty-seven thou
sand, two hundred and ninety-six times
(6,967 ,295), in passing through the different
processes. When the yarn is made into six
cord finished thread, the above number of
doublinss have been multiplied by six.
making a total of 41,SO3,7G2 douhlings.
Now divide the total draft, l,772,327 ,632,-
900, by the total doublings and if the work
Is correct, we shall have the total number of
feet OF yarn in pound OF cotton, which is
254,337 feet. But there has been 20 per
cent. loss in the manufacture, which must
be added, making total of 305, ,254 feet of
yarn for a pound OF cotton, of 120 hanks of
$40 yards each, enough to reach from New
York to Trenton, distance of sixty miles.
MACHINE AND CABINET SHOPS, BOX FAC
TORY AND PRINTING HOUSE.
The Clark Thread Company do all their
printing and lithographing at the works
here. -Four printing presses are kept run
ming all the time, and in the lithograph de-
partment one steam press and six or eight
hand lithograph presses are continually en-
ployed. In both departments the practice
OF the "art preservative" is in the highest
style. Orders for the paper box department
in the one item of straw board are piyen as
high as eighty to one hundred tons at a time.
In the machine shop large number of men
are employed in making new machinery and
keeping in repair the vast quantity in use
in the various departments OF the works
The cabinet factory turns out about two
hundred cabinets per day. The bobbins
etc, used in the mill are made here. In
fact about all the Clark Thread Company
go outside Tor is the raw material. They
manufacture all they use, except a few of
the more intricate or patented machines.
THE CLARK HOSE COMPANY.
One of the best organized and eolipped