The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-22
BETWEEN THE TEETH


takes and runs it
BETWEEN THE TEETH
of large and small cylinder for the purpose of
drawing out the entangled fibers and laying
them parallel or in same line OF direction and
also to remove the small pellicles or notes
which may have escaped the action of the
scutching machine. After being treated in this
way, comber or doffer takes the web from the
small cylinder, which is now a delicate gauze
and it is gathered up and passed through a
small hole, say half all inch in size, after which
it is coiled in a revolving can. The whole pro-
cess is one of wonderful delicacy the material
being SO finely worked that breath of air
would break it: This card contains ninety thou
sand square teeth to foot, or total of four
million one hundred and eighty thousand
On the carding machine is little Joker that
works like some old man, raising the wire-cov-
cred flats from the teeth of the carder, which
it cleans, and throws off the particles of dirt
and coarse cotton left on them Six of the
TIN CANS, CALLED CARD sLIvERs
another machine called Drawing Frame and
run together into one " silver These six are
SO light that when they are passed together
through a hole and made one, they fall into
another silver and are then no larger than one
of the six from which it was made, although
they have not yet been twisted at ALL FsuEtee1
of these cans full of slivers are placed at thu
"Lapper" and run between two rollers, making
a new web nine inches wide and half an inch
thick, which comes out like the original roll
from the scutching machine that takes the cot
ton from the bales, only that now it is soft and
delicate as is possible to conceive weighing ONLY
one hundred and forty-five grains to the yard,
nine inches wide. 1t now goes in rolls to a
wonderful little machine, a French invention
first introduced in this country by The Clark
Thread Company. 1t is refined carding ma
chine, the product of which is as much superior
in fineness to the large carders just described
as the most elegant silk goods are to
THE CoARsEsT COTTON CLOTH.
It is called the French combing machine. and
is only used by the best thread-makers, as it is
very expensive and, while it makes the thread
superior in quality it adds twenty per cent. to
the cost of manufacture. Six Of the rolls of
webbing are now passed together through the
combing machine between two rollers, and
combed by innumerabie steel teeth to the fine
ness Of gOssamer and the thinness of spiders
web. It passes on, is gathered into one soft
round "sllver" again, goes through roAers
once more, when it is coiled into cans as before,
with a loss of twenty per cent. on the me terial
which composed the web when it was Put on
the French machine. 1t is texture so fine
and soft that one cannot but wonder now it
bears it's own weight. after the last process
six of the sliyers 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-five 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 a lead
pencil, and wound on bobbins, all by the same
machine. From this they go to the second
slubbing frame, where one hundred 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 interne-
date, slubbing machine winds upon one hum
dred and seventy-six spOols, from three hum
dred and fifty-two bobbins, which came from
the second slubber. 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 doubling
and twisting the yarn is fast becoming strong
and hard. We now follow the yarn called
growing" 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 sixteen hundred and eighty spools,
when it comes away and on its return winds it
On eight hundred cops (spoolS) making the last
number Of thread yarn. We now come to
THE THREAD MILL,
which is a distinct and independent depart
nlent. The cotton yarn comes here, and first
goes to the cop of winding machines. where it
is run from the cops, through delicate balances
over soft felt ground, upon bobbins, two threads
together upon one. From the cop winding de-
partment the bobbins go to the singing de-
partnent where the two threads that were run
together Oh the spool, in the cop winding de-
partnent, are twisted or spun in one thread.
The thread, as it is llnwOund runs through
water, and rapidly over glass guides, and the
bobbln which receives it revolVeS five thousand
ClneS per minute, twisting nunQfeQS OF GnfeaQS
on each machine. After being 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 strands, and
THE PROCESS OF TWISTING THEM
is exactly the same as the one last described.
It is known as the finishing twisting depart
ment. When the thread comespfrom the fin
ishing twisting department., it is inspected with
the greatest care by skillful persons, and put
through several tests before passing the reel
ing department, to be wound in skeins for the
bleach house. The machines in this depart
ment are very curious, 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 skeins
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 coming from the reels,
THE THREAD IS CAREFULLY INSPECTED,
the work EMPLOYING several girls who cut ali