Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-01-17
FACTS AND FIGURES AS TO THE
CLEMENT ATTACHMENT.

| A letter from COrlntb, Miss, dated SIX
teenth December. to the Louisville Even
ing Post aud News, gives some very in
teresting particulars relative TO tho Gle
ment Attachment, which, as the subject
| is being now very widely discussed in
the South, we shall reproduce in the
Democrat. 1t seems that this now IA
nous peice of mechanism was invented
by citizen of Smyrna, Tenn, Lewis T.
Clement, who has since died, the ma
cLine passing into the hands ofthe writer
of tho letter above referred to. During
the past two or three years the machine
has been greatly improved, until it is
now as nearly perfect for all practical
purposes as is possible. The writer says:
"This machine consists ola Sc Inch top
fat. self-stripping card the attachment
(Which is for a dininutive gin 19x1Sx36
inches) is substituted for the licker-in
and feed roller of the card its saws are
seven inches in diameter, with fourteen
teeth to the inch, and revolves from 100
to 200 times per minute. The brush con.
nected with the saws is a cylinder co.,
cred with bristles; it's periphery Of the
card travels q little faster than the brush;
a feed table is placed above the card and
connected with the attachment by
chute, and gives a regular supply of seed
cotton to tie attachment. A stop motion
is used to save waste in case of accident.
These, with small drawing roller be-
tween the doffer and calendar rollers, to
reduce the silver to the ordinary working
-.
silver, are all the changes and additions
made to the card, and there are none made
elsewhere"
"The seed cotton IS spread upon the
endless apron of the feed table, and pass
es thence through the chute into the at
tachment, where the lint is removed from
the seed, and while on the fine saw teeth
(after passing the ribs) passes through
set of combing plates, which removes all
extraueous matter, and delivers the fla
ment to the brush, which delivers them
to the card, and thence through the doff-
er. small drawing and calender rollers,
arc delivered as perfect silver ir to a re-
volving cam
'By this process only four machines
|
amount of seed cotton into perfect yarns,
viz: card as changed, drawing frame,
sneedor and spinning frame s:, L t. s tGpss, tgPs,
aratory machine. Its size is 22x2sx44
in ches; cost, s75; capacity, 600 pounds
of seed cotton per day; power necessary
to drive, one-half of one horse"
It seems, however, that to obtain tn
the very best results from the Clemen
Attachment, it is important to worl
seed cotton only:
"The new process dispenses with full.
one-half the building, machinery, motiv
+ power and operatives hitherto neccssa
, rs to convert any given amount of see
= cotton into yarns; causes the card, wit
the same amount of motive power, to d
five times as much work; saves one-ha
the usual waste, and produces strong'
J. silver rove and thread than can be mac
q of baled cotton which, on account
t their extra strength, seldom break or
I down, thereby enabling operatives
attend more machinery and each lAachi
to do moro work. The thread is equal
every respect to that made of baled &C
- ton, so per cent stronger and more sheen
''The attachment supersedes the 6
; press and compress, because they are
< tended and only used to render colt
l. transportable; the willower, Topper, az
~ bic lopp. breaker, and four-hfths of
" cards, because they are only used to
~ to remedy the injury done by the c
- press and compress it supersedes
- railway drawing head, also jack fran
" shubbers, mules, wisters, evcners, e
SIX simply because they are costly and
is necessary machines, and perfect thr
Is. can he made without them.
IS The reason why the card will do
as times as much, using seed cotton and
10 same amount of motive power, as it
lis by the old process. using baled cotto1
ho because the tilaments are not permi
~, to leave the machinery, fly or bee
~. tan gled, but are kept strais ht and p;
Wv lei. and carding is but the straighte'
US. of the cotton filaments. The savin
it6. one-half tie usual waste is because fl
1.-Two cotton is used, and half the I
Ill machinery dispensed with. The {
'cl- strength of the thread and skein is o
re- to the working of the cotton fresh
zen the seed, tho oil of which has kel
,st, alive, light, elastic -and flexible, wit
to it's alternating qualities perfect; an
~, y fact that it has never been nap, cut
tangled by the gin, pressed, compr'
L. or permitted to become dry, seast
-. and brittle in this tangled condition
eV- has it Leen injured by the willower,
Ou per, double Topper, breaker and
|, were the damage done by the gin,
and compress are sought to be RENE