Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-31
scutching machine is placed on carding
machine, which takes and runs it

"biCh WINS stAAu Iuu- IL
BETWEEN THE TEETH
Of large and small cylinder for the pur-
pose of drawing out the entangled fibers
and laying them parallel or in the same
line of direction and also to remove the
small peiliclesor moteswhichm have es-
caped theacti0nof the scutching machine.
After being treated in this way, comb.
er or doder takes the web from the small
cylinder, which is now q delicate gauze;
and it isgathered up and passed through
a small bole, eay half m inch in sze, after
which IL b cooled in arevolving can. The
whole process IL one OF wonderful delica-
cy, the material being so finely worked
that breath of air would break it. This
card contains ninety thousand square
teeth to foot, or total of four million
one hundred and eigh:y-six thousand. On
the carding machine i little Joker that
works like some old man, raising the
wire-covered fats from the teeth of the
carder, which it cleans. and throws of
the PARTICLES of dirt and coarse cotton
left on them. Six Of the
TIN CANS CALLED CARD SLGvERs,
in which the roll ia wound are now taken
to another machine called Drawing
Frame and run together into one silver"
These six are so light that when they are
passed together through 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 ali. Fourteen of these
cans full of slivers are placed at the Lap.
Grand run between two rollers, maki0ga
new web nine inches wide and half 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
forty Eve grains 10 the yard, nine inches
wide. 1t now goes in rolls to wonder
first introduced in this country by The
CLARK Thread Company. 1t is a refined
carding machine, the product of which
is AZ much superiorin fineness to the large
carders just described as the most elegant
silk goods are to
TIE COARsEST 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 oil man.
ufacture. Six of the rolls of webbing are
now passed together through the conbing
machine between two rollers,and combed
by innumerable steel teeth to the fine
ness of gossamer and the thinnee of
spiders web. 1t passes on, is gathered
into one soft round ''siiver'' again, goes
through rollers once more, when it is
coiled into cans as before, with loss of
twenty per cent. on the material which
composed the web when it was put on
the French machine. 1t is texture 90
fine and soft that one cannot but wonder
how it bears its own weight. Alter the last
process, six of the sivers 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 prrsess began although doub-
led four hundred and thirty give thousand
four hundred and ffty-six times. The
last cans are now taken to
THE FIRST sLUBBIEG 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 70 to
the secondslubbing frame, where one hun
dred and two spindIes on each machine are
winding yarn from two hundred and four
bcbbins, which came from the first slubber,
wOthreads being wound upon one spool.
The next or intermediate slubbing ma.
chine winds upon one hundred and sew
enty-six spools, from three hundred and
fifty-twO bObbins, which came from the
secOndslubber. The nextan last is called
the rowing machine, and fills two hundred
and forty spools, which came from four
hundred and eighty bobbins, from the in
termediate slubbing machine. BY this rep
etition of doubling and twisting the yarn
isfAst becoming strong andhard. Wenow
follow the yarn called growing" to the self
acting "mule," which makes eight hun.
dred and forty threads of yarn from six
teen hundred and eighty bobbins. This
wonderful machine, two of which are op-
Grated by one man draws out the yarn and
twists it from sixteen hundred and eighty
spools, when it comes away, and on its re-
turn winds it on eight hundred cops
(spOOls) making the last number of
thread yarn. We now come to
THE THREAD MILL,
which is distinct and independent de-
partment. hecotton yarn comes here, and
first goes to the cop winding machines,
where it is-un from the cops, through del
icate balances, over soft felt ground, upor
bobbins, two threads together upon one.
From the cop winding department, the
bobbins 60 to the singing department,
where the two threads that were run to-
gether 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-
ceives it reyolves five thousand times per