The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-29

ms, two threads together upon one. From
he COP winding department, the bobbins 60
D the singing department, where the two
breads that were run together on the spool
q the cop winding department, are twisted
r spun In one thread. The thread, as it Is
runs through water, and rapidly
yer glass guides, and the bobbin which re.
elves IL revolves five thousand times per
minute twisting hundreds OF threads on each
machine. After being twisted two threads
ogether, making one hard thread, three OF
he latter are again run together on bob
bin, the same as in the first cop winding de.
Dartment. Three Of these are now twisted
together, making six strands, and
THE PROCESS OF TWISTING THEM
Is exactly the same az the one last described. |
[t is known as the finishing twisting depart |
ment. When the thread comes from the |
finishing twisting department, II is inspected |
with the greatest care, by skillful persons, |
and put through several tests before passing |
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 a thorough
ticket to the bleach and dye houses. They
exact length and size, and when they have
reeled off Just the right 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,
THE 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
find 1t next in the bleach house. The
bleach and dye houses are among the most
interesting departments of this vast estab.
lishment, 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 1t, OF this con-
Germ, is rather q large child, whose place
and uses will appear later. After the thread
is sent from the inspection department to
the bleach and dye houses, 1t is unpacked,
counted and put into large tanks, immense
loads at time, and boiled by steam for sew.
eral hours, which takes out the dirt and
CLEANS 1T PERFECTLY.
1t is then put through washings oft, and
preparations wonderful and curious. The
water used, we Judge, would have increased
the food 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 scale equal in magnitude to any of
Colonel Sellers's schemes for making mil.
lions. The loads of thread are put in and
taken out OF boilers, rinsers, washers, dry.
ers and half a dozen other processes by
machinery. Then after all this, it goes right
back to those huge steam boilers, and the
came thing is done over again, The dry
room is heated by seven thousand five hun.
AraA foot Of etpQm ninp and no
lated to any desired temperature. After
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 pat
ent dyeing machine, used only to dye black
It does the work far better than by hand
and is equal to the labor OF more than Z
| dozen men.
ALL CoLoRs OF THREAD
are made, and the quantities of soaps, dye
stufis, 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 artesiau wells
| of The Clark Thread Company has capa
city of one hundred and fifty thousand gal
Ions per day. This is remarkable well
sixteen feet deep and eight feet in diameter
of which Professor Maynard, the New York
chemist, said it produced 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 1t is committed TO tn,
tender MARCHES of the baby washer, which
are cruel, and goes through it ten times
The baby is built like an ordinary washiD,
| machine, but each of the rollers weighs
thousand pounds, and as the thread passe
through the water into the washer
THEY HOP AND JUMP
and pound with antics queer, but it does tn
done by the old fashioned FOUNDER and bai
rel which our grandmothers used to set us a
when we were boys, before going to schoo
in the morning. Then it is drawn through
the rinser, which is simple and novel ma
chine continually supplied with pure arte
sian we'll water. The thread passes over
roller into the water, comes up again owe
another roller, then down into the water
and up and down, and out and in, and out an,
up over the reels into great boxes on wheels
from which 1t is put into large water ex
tractor, a perforated hollow cylinder, revoly
ing several thousand times minute, an
then it is transported to the drying room
In this way five hundred heads can be rinse
in four minutes which used to take an hou
and half. After the thread has come ou
of the drying room, -
COLoRED OR UNCoLoRED,"
it goes to the warerooms, where it is connie
and put in packages to be given out prt
paratory to being wound upon spools fo
the market The thread having reache
this stage of perfection, has become yer
valuable, and is looked after with the grea
est care. Tickets direct it to its differen
departments, and denote its size, quality
etc. The inspection and testing of threa
is one of the most important features ia il
production, and it would surprise the lad
who sews day after day with Clark's"O \
T." Spool Cotton, to know by what patier
and constant care the perfect smo0thne,
and regularity Of the thread was secured.
is now taken to the handwriting depar
,, ment aud wound upon large bobbins, whe
! it is ready for its last wind upon the spool
from which it is taken by the consumers Il
its thousand uses of necessity aud utilit
} from tying the rag on the boys whitfield an
bloody finger, to the delicate embroidery
the wedding garment.
, THE sPooLING DEPARTMENT.
The spooling room is busy place, whel
spools of thread of all sizes and colors
tens of thousands are wound every day, tw
hundred yards on spool. The selfactin
mechanism. The spools are placed in q
iron gutter by the operator, when the M
/ ct inc picks them up, puts them on a sba
eight at a time, winds the thread upon the
at the rate of three thousand revolution
per minute, cuts a little slot in the edge
the spool, catches the thread in it, nips
. of, drops the spools full of thread int
, boxes below, picks up eight more empt
spools, places, winds and drops them as b,
fore, and never makes a mistake. The mi
chine, which is used in this country emily b
The Clark Thread Company, was exhibite
by them at the Centennial, and, with the
magnificent case of goods, was one of th
great attractions among the many wonder
! OF the exhibition. From the spooling d.
partment, the spoiled thread is taken to
THE wAREROOM,
where the beautiful little label containin
the name, number, ETC., of the thread, is pr
on by girls. The quickest of them will pr
labels OH the ends of nine or ten thousan
in day, all of which have to be moistene
by the tongue, placed on the spool, and the
struck with the hand to paste 1t. Some
these girls work about as quick as lightning
After ticketiDg, the spools Of thread are pl
, into hOxea of one dozen each Thew ara the