The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-15


seven inches in diameter, with fourteen
teeth to the inch, and revolves from
100 to 200 times per minute. The
brush connected with the saws ia q CYL
inder covered with bristles, its peri
phery revolving little faster than the
saws, and having transverse or hori-
zontal motion. The periphery of the
card travels little faster than the
brush, and feed table Is placed above
the card and connected with the attsch-
meht by chute, giving a regular sup
ply of seed cotton to the attachment.
a stop motion is used to save waste in
case of accident. These, with a small
drawing roller between the doffer and
calendar rollers, to reduce the silver to
the ordinary working siz', and cam
motion to receive said silver, are all
the changes and additions made to the
card, and there are none made else
where. The seed cotton placed upon
endless feed apron passes to the chute
and into the attachment, where the
work of lint removal goes on, and
while it is still upon the saw teeth
Is combed until all extraneous matter
is removed. The Flaments are then
delivered to the brush, which delivers
them to the card, and thence they 60
through the doffer, small drawing and
calender rollers, and are delivered as
perfect silver into revolving can.
By this process only four machines
card, drawing frame, speeder and
spinning frame are necessary to con-
vert seed Gotten into perfect yarn. A
cleanser of seed cotton is also used as
preparatory machine. Its size Is 22x
2Sx44 inches, cost, S75, capacity 5000
pounds of seed cotton per day, and the
power necessary to drive, one half of
one horse.
The writer refeSred to goes on to
show how much better the results are
from the use of the seed cotton with the
machine. He says:
The new process dispenses with fully
one-half of the building, machinery,
motive power and operatives hitherto
necessary to convert any given amount
of seed cotton into yarns; causes the
card, with the same amount of motive
power to do five times as much work
saves one-half the usual waste, and
produces stronger silver rove and
thread than can be made of baled cot
ton, which on account OF their extra
strength, seldom break or let down,
thereby enabling operatives to attend
more machinery, and each machine to
do more work. The thread is equal in
every respect to that made of baled
cotton, fifty per cent. stronger and
more sheeny.
press and compress, because they are
intended and only used to render cot
ton transportable; the willower, lop-
per, double lopp, breaker, and four
tifths of the cards, because they are
only used to try to remedy the injury
| done by the gin, press and compress;
it supersedes the railway drawing head,
also all jack frames, shubbers, mules,
twisters, eveners, etc., simply because
they are costly and unnecessary ma
chimes, and perfect thread can be made
without them.
The reason why the card will do five
times as much, using seed cotton and
the same amount of metive power, as
it did by the old process, using bsled
cotton, Is because the filsments are not
permitted to leave the machinery, fly
or become tangled, but are kept
straight and parallel, and carding is
but the Strengthening of the cotton
filaments. The saying of one-half the
usual waste is because fresh, live cot
ton is used, and half the usual machin-
cry dispensed with. The extra strength
of the thread and skein is owing to
the working of the cotton fresh from
the seed, the oil of which has kept it
alive, light, elastic and flexible, with
all its alternating qualities perfect; and
the fact that il has never been nap,
cut nor tangled by the gin, pressed,
compressed or permitted to become
dry, seasoned and brittle in this
sngled condition, nor has it been in
lured by the wlllower, Topper, double
Topper, breaker and cards, where the
damage done by the gin, press and
compress are sought to be remedied.
But these advantages, great as they
are, are not halt that are claimed for
the NEW process"
The other ''half" refers to the expen-
ses which producers have to pay-the
ginning, baling, bsgging and ties, haul
ing, freight, samphng, weighing and
reweighiDg, compress, ETC., to say moth
ing of brokerage and insurance. A
bale Of cotton is exempt from hauling,
sampling, weighing, deduction of from
two to four pounds from each bales
sctual weight, profits to purchaser,
freight and insurance, drsysge to cot
ton shed, storage, Insurance., dress SAM
ping, commissions for selling, general
average accounts, brokerage for buy
ing, dress boring, second weighing, re-
pairs, drayage to compress. compress
ing, drayage to steamer or depot,
freight and insurance to New York or
Liverpool, loss on bills of exchange,
etc. To these add waste, loss, dam
age, drayage and stealage, ell the ex-
penses, speculations, ETC., of the &C.
complished cotton manipulators, also
expenses in our seaport towns, where
1t is, or was, recompressed for reship-
ping, the expenses and profit of the
shipment, and the expenses after its
arrival there until sold to the
manufacturer. To all these add
the expenses, profits. ETC., of the man
ufactured goods returned South, and
some idea will be had of what middle
men receive and what the new process
will save. when generally adopted,
This is putting the case in very strong
light, but il is true, and when it is re-
membered that the entire capital neces-
ssry for purchasing q machine is only
$500, and that the testimony goes to
show that the profits are 80 per cent. it
does seem that this question is one
which demands attention of the horny
handed producers Of cotton now sup
posed to be celebrating upon the best
way to make agriculture psy.