The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-03-22

dreds of threads on each machine. After
being twisted two threads together. making
one hard thread. three of the latter are again
ran together on bobbin, the same as in
the first cop winding department. Three of
these are now twisted together, making six
strands, and
THE PROCESS OF TWISTING rHEM
is exactly the same as the one last describ-
ed. 1t is known as the finishing twisting
department When the thread comes from
the snishing 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
in this department are very Curl
Gus, and daily turn out vast quantities of
thread, which is packed, and given a
through ticket to the bleach and dye houses.
They measure of the thread into skeins of
an exact length and size, and when they
have reeled of just the night amount of yarn,
always stop, and unlike some kind OF yarn
ers, they never forget TO tell the same story
without variations. Again after coming
from the reels,
TIE 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
lind II next in the bleach house. The
bleach and dye houses are among the most
interesting departments of this vast estsb-
hshment, 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 con-
Germ, 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, it is unIacked
counted and put into large tanks, immense
loads at time, and boiled by steam for sev
eral hours, which takes out the dirt and
CLEANS IT PERFECTLY
1t Is then put through Washings oft, and
wonderful and curious. The
water used, We judge, would have increased
the nood just about enough to have lifted
Noah's ark from the snag on Mt 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
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
reellng 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 dye-
ing machine, used only to dye black. 1t
does the work far better than by hand aud
is equal to the labor of more than a dozen
men.
ALL CoLoRs OF THREAD
are made. and the quantities of soaps, dive
stuffsI and other material of the kind used,
are immense. Eighty thousand gallons of
water are consumed daily in the bleach
mouse alone, and one of the Artesian wells
of The Clark Thread Company has a capa-
city OF one hundred and fifty thousand gal
Ions per day. This is a remarkable well,
sixteen feet deep and eight feet in diameter.
of which Professor Maynard, the New Yol k
chemist, said it produced the purest water
he ever saw. 1t makes man thirsty to
look at it, and is absolutely free from any
particles OF matter by chemical test. The
thread Is bIued on big scale, which gives
that handsome tint so greatly admired bv
the ladies. Then it is committed to the
tender mercies of the baby washer. which
are cruel, and goes through it Ten times
he baby is built like an ordinsry 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 vas formerly
done by the old fashioned FOUNDER and bar
rel which our grandmothers used to set us
at when we were boys, before going to
school in the morning. Then it is drawn
through the rinser, which is a simple and
novel machine, continually supplied with
pure AItesian well water The thread passes
over roller into the water, comes up
again over another roller, then down into
the water, and up and down, and out and
ID, and out and up over the reels into great
boxes on wheels, from which it is put into
large water extractor, perforated hollow
cylinder, revolving several thousand times
per minute, and then it is transported to the
drying room. In this way five hundred
heads can be rinsed in four minutes which
used to take an hour and a half. After the
thread has come out of the drying room,
CoLoRED OR UNCoLoRKD,
It goes TO the TarerOODls, where il is counted
ard put IN packages to be given out prepare
Tory 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 thu cad is one
Of the most important features in its pro-
AUCTION, and it would surprise the lady VINO
'ews day after day with Clark's 80. n. T."
spool Cotton, to know by what patient and
care the perfect smoothness and
'eg ularity of the thread was secured. 1t is
low taken to the handwriting department
md wound upon large bobbins, when It is
eady for its last wind upon the spools,
rom which it is taken by the consumers
or Its thousand uses OF necessity and utility,
rom tying the rag On the boys Whitfield
md bloody finger to the delicate embroid-
ry of the wedding garment.
TIE sPoOLING DEPARTMENT.
The spooliDg-room is busy place, where
pools of thread of all sizes and colors, by
ems of thousands, are wound every dsy,
wo hundred yards on spool. The self
ctlng spooling machine is marvellous
,iece of mechanism. The spools are placed
n an iron gutter by the operator, when the
machine picks them up, puts them on
ha5t eieht at time, winds the thread upon
hem at the rate of three thousand reyolu-
ions per minute, outs little slot in the
dge of the spool, catches the thread in it,
lips 1t OF, drops the sponls full of thread
Gto boxes below, picks up eight more
mpty spools places, winds and drops them
- e.
The machine, which is used in this country
'nly by the Clark Thread Company, was
Exhibited by them at the Centennial, and,
With their magnificent case of goods, was
ne of the great attractions among the
many wonders of the exhibition. From
be spooling department, the spooied threa.
a f-Af THE wARERooM,
where the beautiful little label containing
be name, number, etc, of the thread, is
'ut on by girls The quickest of them will
'ut labels on the ends of nine or ten thou
and in a day, all of which have to be
noistened by the tongue, placed on the
pool, and then struck by the hand to paste
t. Some of these girls work about as quick |
S lightning. After ticketipg, the spools of |
bread 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 at the mills, in Michigan, to |
be various lengths required, and all that is |
lone here is to put the boxes together. A
,rivate wire runs from the works in New.
rk to the New York Office, and the line is
,ept busy in sending orders and transmit |
ing messages of the company. In the
hort time we were there several large or
iers came in from different parts of the