The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-03-29

i IHlIlc anu run lOpclINI lIlO VIC SILVER.
These six are 50 Ii hit that when they are
passed together through Il hole and made
one, they fall into another silver and are
then no larger than one of the six from
whichit was made, although they havenot
yet been twisted atall. Fourteen of these
cans full Of slivers are placed at the clap.
per" and run between two rollers, makinga
new webnineinches wide and halt an inch
thick, which comes out like the original
roll from the scutching machine that takes
the cotton from the bales, only that now
it is soft and delicate as is possible to
conceive, weighing only one hundred
and f0rty>fiye grains to the yard, nine
inches wide. 1t now goes in rolls to a
wonderful little machine, n French in
v%ention, first introduced in this country
by The Clark Thread Company. 1t is a
refined caTdlng machine, the product Of
which is rs much superior in i~inencss TO
the large carders just described as the
most elegant silk goods are to
THE CDARsEsr COTTON CLOTH.
1t is called the French combing machine
and is only used by the best thread max,
ers, as it is very expensive and while it
makes the thread superior in quality, it
adds twenty per cent, to the cost of man
ufacture. Six of the rolls of webbing are
now passed together through the combing
machine between two rollers, and COmbed
by innumefablc steel teeth to the fine
ness Of gOssamer and the thinness of n
spiders web. 1t passcs on, il gathered
into one soft round silver" again, goes
through rollers once more, when it is
coiled into cans as before, with n loss Of
twenty per cent. on the material which
composed the web when it was put ON
the French machine. 1t is Il texture 50
fine and soft that one cannot but wonder
how it bearsits own weight. After the last
process, six Of the sIiyers 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 p%utthrOugh theSamc 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 IL the same sizcand weight
as when the process began, although doub-
led four hundred aud thirty-hyc thousand
fourhundrcd and fifty siXtimcs. 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 Il
lead pencil, and wound on bobbins, all by
the same machine. From this they 90 to
Il csecond slubbing frame, whercOnc hun
dred and twospindles oneach 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 intermediate sIubbing ma-
chine winds upon II hundred and sew
cnty-siX spooIs, from three hundred and
flLy-two bobbins, which came from the
second slubDcr. The neXtand lastiscalled
the rowing machine, and fills two hundred
and forty spooIs, which came from four
hundred and eighty bobbins, from the in
tcrmediatcsIubbingmachinc. BY thisrep-
etition ofdoubling and twisting the yarn
is fast becomingstrong and hard. Wenow
foIlowIth the yarn called rowing" to the self
acting "muIe," which makes eight hun.
drcd and forty threads Of yarn from six
teen hundred and eighty bobbins. This
wonderful machine, two Of which are OPP.
Grated by one man, draws out the yarnan
twists it iromsixtcen hundred and eighty
sp0Ols, when it comes away, and ON its re-
turn winds it on eight hundred cops
(spooIs) making the last number Of thread
yarn. We now come to
THE THREAD MIL,
which is Il distinct and Independent de-
partmcnt. Tllecotton yarn comesherc and
first goes to the cop winding machines,
where it iSrun from the cops, through deli
cate balances, over soft felt ground, upon
bobbins, two threads together upon one.
From the cop winding department, the
bobbins 90 to the singing department,
where the two threads that were run to.
gcthor ON the spool, in the cop winding
department, are twisted or spun in one
thread. The thread, as it is unwOund,
runs through water, and rapidly over
glass guides, and the bobbin which re.
ceiycs it revolycs five thousand times per
minute twisting hundreds Of threads ON
each machine. After being twisted two
threads together, makingone hard thread,
three of The latter are again run together
on Il bobbin, the same as in the first con
winding department. Three of these are
now twisted together, making six strans,
and
THE PROCESS or TWISTING THEN
is exactly the same rs the one last de-
1t is known as the finishing
twisting department. When the thread
from the finishing twisting depart
ment, it is inspected with the greatest
care, by skilllul persons, and put through
several tests before passing the reeling
department, to be wound in skeins for the
house, The machines in this de
partment are very curious, and daily turn
out vast quantities Of thread, which is
packed, and given a through ticket to the
bleach and Lighthouses. They measure of
Lhe thread into skcins of an exact length ,
size, and when they have rceled off ,
.ust the right amount of yarn, always ,
stop, and unlike some kind of yarncrs, l
hey V forget to tell the same story =
Without variations. Again after coming l
rom the reels, {.
THREAD Is CAREFULLY INSPECTED, /
he work employing several girls, who e
AXE ali the rough and imperfect thread l
rom the hanks. After this second inspcc. Il
we find it next in the bleach house Y
he bleach and dye houses are among !!
he most interesting departments of this !,
asst establishment, although not the most Il
grceabIe. The progress in washing ma I
,thatishe exhibited ,wouldmakc !,
ur grandmothers think hat the millen I,
I'M had come. The baby washer, as we !
all it, of this concern; is rather Il large
hid, whose place and uses will appear Il
tier. After the thread is sent from the Il
,spection department to the bleach and "
ye houses, it is unpacked, counted and y
into large tanks, immense loads at a .
me, and boiled by steam for several u
ours, which takes out the dirt and .
CLEANaIT PERFECTLY. .
1t is then put through washings oft, .
nd preparations wonderful and curious. o
he water used, we Judge, would have in II
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