The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-03-29

giurs Boz uur, usually termed q double rn.
giur The hy.Uhcvl travelling at the rate
ui luuy.rigll revolutions per minute aud
carving three huge belts on It's ruriaoc,
each two feet wide, be- seyeuty-ciRht lyri Ia
circumference, twenty i've ityt in diameter
and weighs thirty toms ur sixty thousand
pHunI. The shaft i- fourteen inches iu
ihirLuy-s. the duuhlr cylinders arr twenty
six u,h,- boo diameter with ruudrn-rr-.
aud u stroke ui i've feet They were huilt
I, turIi--. lu l-sA Tine ut the llIyr hrlts
uu ih, Hy.uhtrl i- one hundred aud hlly
irrt boo length llut even this double mon.
si,r could not ruu the works. II has big
TWAIN brother. and together tAv} travel every
day lur Jgu Luur ou their endless journey,
aud never gy urci They ara wonders ut
power aud elegant workmanship, worthy ui
Il visit from auy one tho wants "a ~re tile
uuuIsI PAIR uI rwlN-
iu New jersey lnsy ars supplied with
steam from mine immyuss lunular hnilyr
and four lare, upright tuilfu. Car.i-- plan.
They ,Hu-um, ItvuIf-uy, toms st coal per
aay. which will give -ume idea 81 thc
amount ui steam uprge-ar lo drive the im-
m,u-r ,-,aUu-hmtul E,,idrs these There
ary thr.e ordinary sized euglurs, made by
Watts, tauph,ll 81 c., Of Newark, la dii-
lyfyu, parts ul lhe WaTh-l making seven in
aid, grand total oi nearly fourteen hundred
horse power The young mountain ul coal,
which looks enough o. last the whole cily "a
wear. i- gyhullt ty Two hundred and nifty
tom boat loads. aI brief intervals.
siAAlIA,IMNa Gu ruRtAp.
The cotton - brought iu bales to the mi1
ing ruums. nH.u il Is examined aud placed
in bins according 10 ghe different grades.
ready i.r the -gH,rAlng machine. which
open and beat ihe material. cleaning from
Ihg dir, sud sand il ceuialu> in tile bale
After going through lht >gu,ghiHg machine.
10 comics uut lu ias shape ID a roll. like vail
pspgl. comparatively -ait white and clean.
IL BE-. however, really lu a very rough state
compared With ,4- hueuu-- aEd perfection
tHal be- tJ be reached. Several Of these
-eulch.us maeIiHgs age running CuIIlu-
aliy. aud JaglT sound is like The rIaT oi q
lightning express train. IS IL whiIis pact
lhs platform where sou stand, The hr-l
,rugch,r i- !tl with the bale cotton from
"a hopper which lg,~ il through iIlo knives
-rt iu large ROLLERS. which rcNulye With Ire.
myHduu- .sree, aud lightning speed picking
lAv cotton into small plcrrs, AND passing 10
Ny -ug.lau 40 a.r, au 10 other roller, he-
tween which ll gar, and paMys CUT Boa the
shape ai web ~ "lap' ia large rolls
Four y these rsli- afe then placed upon a
machine like Iac Ar-l AMI run together
through Ire same process %
gICklNa AND BEATING AAu CLEANING,
ahyu 10 Uame~ eul again ia lae same Shape
a- hyiure, rolled O. exactly ghe thickness
which it b. declined % make the silver
tfam which Jhe thnaaiv .s % be spun
What silver l- ulll De learned iurthei
un. The machine is so delieatyly ~, that
lI rt4ulage- the thickness 81 tile web ug Lap
la within half au ounce. iu d web 90 iy,
icrt weighing only tselys 60 eishteri
ounces. After h,sl: Tut through Ilre,
seuI,AuG machine su lils Way aud coming
u4g Uiil eight lhltEngs=~ oi web ur. Dag
similar ga Than produced hy the hri pro,
ru-s. Do l- ready luF the rafilug machines
The deTarm ul is allied With ,srdiue Ma
chime Drawing tramc~ Ispper. and
tamhius Machine perfect labyrinth al
hv.lu- rul.yy- and maeAlusry, the mods.
ul which s. i.ka sae gaaF ui many waler
mingled with ,ar chatter I'd q thousand
WLc,I- One .i The large rsll- uL web 90
lap ;Aai came iaau tAe lasi ssu,ching ma.
chine i- placed uu caTdtus machine
which take aHl wusI{
HlTwlIaN TIE TuTu
81 "a large and -nali cylinder iur the pur,
pose ul drawing uut the sH.aneled htv>
and LAYING Them parallel ar IN th, same lin,
ui direction auI Il-s % remove the small
rellIyl,- yr mu'es which NAV have escaped
ihs aofiau u! lae -eutrbius machine. AZ.
,es being treated iH tas- way. a Camber 90
auN,r takes ,a. WrH trum tAr small vyln,
agr. whI,A l- nsB aglIeat, guase; and j,
i- gathered cap and passed through small
hn.c. say Aa.t au Iuea lu sIge. after which
Dc b. eallvd iu "a g,yu living can. The whole
prpn,r- Do tu, I'd wonderful delieacv, the
material le.ng - finely worked that q
breath q, mir would brak il. This card
contains ninety Thousand sgaan teeth 20 q
i..i. .g d total u. four million one hundred
and ,.sl,v--ts thousand. On ihc oariins
maeh.u, j. lg's Joker thar works iil,
SOME ola man, raising the ulrr covered hai,
from Ilr teeth vi i4r garier which 10 clean.
and tAraas uI lhr particles 81 dirt aud
cuAr-y r1;.ua i,.loa them. SIX oi lay
T.N ,AN~ CALLED CARD -LIyHI-.
in which the rHIl IS voau3 are nov taken
Go another machine called q Drawing
Eram, and un lasg;h,r into ore silver
IAu-c six ary SD light thai when they are
pas-ct together through a hole and made
one. lh,y iall into another silver and arc
then un larger than one If the six from
which il wa. made. although they have not
vet hgcu twisted at ALL Fourteen 81 these
can, iuil ui .liygr- arc placed al the lap
per and ran between tWa ra.l,r.. making q
new web min, inches Wild, and half au inch
thick. which comes ouI like the original
roll from ,ar -rutchiug maehiu, that takes
the cotton from the bales. only that now 10
is soft and delicate as Is possible 10 conceive,
weighing only one hundred aud iorty-6yc
grains io the ward. nine inches wide IL
noU ror. iu r1ll- 90 . wonderful little mp-
chine. French invention. ir~i introduced
In tins country hy The Clark Thread Com
pauy. Ii H. refined cariiug machine. ih,
prpduc, oi which Is rs much superior IN
in,uc-- 60 the large cardcrs Just dcSCrihcd
as the most olcgau, silk good. are 60
TIRE CnAE~E-r cprroN CLOTH
II Is called the French comhiug machine
and Is only used by the best thread makers,
as il isv,ry expensive and while IL makes
t. thread superior in quality II adds
twenty per cent. 10 the cost Of manufacture.
six OF the roll. OF webbing ary now passed
together through the comhiug machine be-
tween two rollers and camhed hv inuumcr-
able steel tc,th 90 the liucnc-, of gossamcr
and the thiunc-s ui a spiders web Il
passes ON, j. gathered in one soft round
" silver again. goes through rollers ono,
more. when it Is CuIlod into cans as before,
with q loss Of twenty per cent on the ma
tcrial which composed the web when II was
put ON the French machine. 1t is q tex
iurr -a fine and soft that one cannot hui
wonder how it bears its own weight After
the last process. six ot the slIvCr- are again
put through the drawing frame making one
silver no larger than any ot the six from
which 10 i- drawn. Then six Of these last
are put through the same process reducing
them ion -.zy six times, and adding that to
the length. This is repeated three times,
and each time they are colled into cans.
The last silver is the same size and weight
rs when the process began, although doubled
four hundred and thirty five thousand four
hundred and iiitv-six times, The last cans
are now taken TO
THE FIRST SLUnn1SG FRAME.
from which cans they are passed through
rollers. then twisted to about the size of
lead pencil. and wound on hohbins, all 10y
the same machine From this they ~ To
the second -lubhing frame, where one hun
drcd and two splin,crs ON each machine are
winding warn from two hundred and iour
bohhin-. which came from the hrst slubbcr,
two threads being wound upon one spool.
The next or intermediate rlubbing machine
winds upon one hundred and scvonty-six
spool-. from three hundred and iiity-two
hohbins. which came from the second slub-
her. The next and la-i is called the rowing