The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-22

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 sLUBB1NG FRAME,
from which cans they are passed through
| rollers, then twisted to about the size of a
lead pencil, and wound bobbins, all by the
same machine. From this they 20 to the
| second slubbing frame, where one hundred
/ and two splndles on each machine are wind
ing yarn from two hundred and four bobbins.
which came from the first slubber, two threads
being wound upon one spool. The next or
| intermediate slubbing machine winds upon
one hundred and seventy-six spools, from
three hundred and fitty-two bobbins, which
came from the second slubber. The nextand
last is called the rowing machine, and fills
two hundred and forty spools, which came
from four hundred and eighty bobbins, from
the intermediate slubbing machine. By this
repetition OF doubling and twisting the yarn
is fast 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 hun
machine, two OF which are operated by one
man, draws out the yarn and twists 1t from six
teen hundred and eighty spools, when it comes
away, and on its return winds it on eight hun
bred cops (spools) 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 it is
run from the cop, through delicate balances,
over soft telt ground, upon bobbins, two
From the cop winding Department. al the b bob:
bins 80 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 it is unwound, runs through water, and
rapidly over glass guides, and the bobbin
which receives it revolves five thousand times
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 strans, 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 skilltul persons,
the Keeling department to be wound in skeins
for the bleach house. The machines in this
department are very curious, and daily turn
out vast quantities OF thread, which is packed
and given through ticket to the bleach
the aye thread hG 1s en They "
have reeled of just the right amount OF yarn,
always stop, and unlike some kind Of warmers.
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 second 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
exhibited, would make our grandmothers
think that the millennium had come The
baby washer, as we call it, of this concern. is
rather a 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 unpacked, counted and put
into large tanks, immense loads at time, and
boiled by steam tor several hours, which takes
out the dirt and
CLEANS 1T PERFECTLY.
It is then put through washings oft, and
preparations wonderful and curious. The
! water used, we judge, would have increased
the flood just about enough to 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 out OF
boilers, .rinsers, washers, dryers and halt
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 temDerature.
Alter leaving the Keeling 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 dive
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, dive
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 capacity of one hun
dred and fifty thousand gallons per day. This
eight feet in diameter, Of which Professor
Maynard the New York chemist, said it pro-
duced the purest water he ever saw, It makes
man thirsty to look at it, and is absolutely
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 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 simple and novel machine contin-
ually supplied with pure Artesian well water.
The thread passes over a 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 great
boxes on wheels from which it is put into
large water extractor, perforated hollow cyl
inder, revolving several thousand times per
minute, and then it is transported to the dry
ing room. In this way five hundred heads can
be rinsed in four minutes which used to take
an hour and ahalf. After the thread has come
out of the drying room
CoLoRED OR UNC0LoRED,
it goes to the warercoms, where it is 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 valuable
and is looked after 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 20. N. T." Spool Cotton, to