Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-02-06

One table; one card and draw
ing frame; one speeder with
halt her time to spare; two the
spinning frames, and two the
reels and thread press.
Seventh-How many differ
ent sizes of yarn will it spin?
Answer have seen it make
first quality of yarns of all
sizes from three and one-half
carpet filing to No. -, and l
have no doubt it will make No.
200, or finer than can be made
of baled cotton.
Eight-Is this Clement at
tachment anything more than
the old hand spinning jenney
on a larger scale2
Answer am informed in
the last five minutes that an
article in a late issue of the
Avalanche answers this identi-
cal question in the negative,
asserting that it is nothing more
nor less than the old spinning
jenny of thirty years ago. If it
is an editorial. l am not sur
prised at it, for all the secular
papers in Memphis have been
produced against the new pro-
cess for years, because its gen.
eral adoption would close the
door of nine-tenths of their
patrons or supporters. who are
a class of middle-men who
make their living by hauling
cotton bales in transitu from
the field to the distant factor
les, l assure you, in answer to
your eighth question, that the
Clement attachment is nothing
more nor less than the Whitney
gin, with saws, ribs and breast.
as in any ordinary gin. It's
true the saws are an inch or
two smaller in diameter, the
teeth are finer, and bristles on
the brush are put on a littfe<
different, but there is one thing
about the attachment not
found in all gin-stands, viz: a
set of combing plates, which is
no new thing, for l have seen
combing-plates on gins, near
Memphis, fifteen or twenty
years ago, and have known
state fairs award first premiums
to cotton in bales that passed
through said combing-plates.
There is no doubt but that the
old spinning jennies were pat
ented. Clements had no diff
iculty in getting his applica-
ton granted-not for a spin
ming jenny, not for an attach
ment-but for "an improve
ment in machinery for ginning
and cleaning cotton" This
improvement in machinery was
shown by his application, draw
ings and specifications, to be
nothing more or less t1an the
combination of the gin and card
to cleanse the damaged seed
cotton, as it comes from the
field, of the seed and all ex-
traneous matter, and deliver
the 6laments (which have never
been permitted to fly, leave the
machinery or become tangled)
into a revolving can, in the
form of silver or continuous
roll, which then passed through
and spinning frame, when the
perfected thread is found to be
equal in every respect to that
made of baled cotton, of sup
erior sheen and from 81 to 100
per cent. stronger. | should
be pleased to have the writer
in the Avalanche state wherein
the new process. in any
way is identical with the spin
ming jenny. The first requires
a two-story building with 400
square feet of space on the first
floor, the second requires about
square feet of floor.
Ninth-Do you consider the
model of this spinning arrange
ment quite perfect and not sus-
ceptible of great improvements,
and consequently great chang
es?
Answer have nearly an
swered this question in my pre-
face. The card used by US is
the common thirty-six inch top
fiat self-stripper, the capacity
of which is forty pounds silver
per day by the old process. We
make it do from Is to ga
pounds silver per day, using
the same amount of motive
power, and we use seed cotton,
whilst by the old process baled
cotton is used. This is making
the same card do FIVE times more
by the new than it will by the
old process. Now, the capacity
of the English combination, or
roller and stripping-card, of say
forty-sight inch instead of
thirty-six inch diameter and
length, will deliver 1000 pounds
silver per day by the old pro-
cess; / can see no reason why
it cannot be made, also to do
FIVE times as much by chang
ing it to a new process card.
This would be FIVE hundred
pounds of silver per day. and
l think it will be done, and 9th
er things of changes will be
made when large capitalists
take hold of it and invest their
half million in a single factory.
The railway and railway draw
ing head will doubtless be ad-
opted. All the changes that
will likely be made on it are
covered by patents, there being
in all seven or eight secured
but only three or four used as
yet. l think / have one that
will he valuable in a mill for
making ropes, seamless bags,
osnaburgs and sail cloth, but
until mills are erected for that