The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-02-18

The Clement Attachment is
small cotton gin used by the yarn
manufacturer in connection with the
top fiat cotton card for converting
seed cotton directly into silver. 1t
differs from the plantation gin in the
following: The saws are smaller and
are set closer together on the saw
shaft, the teeth of the saws are finer,
the brush is smaller and more thickly
set with bristles, the saws and brush
both run much slower, and the brush
runs but little faster than the saws.
It also has peculiar motor, or set of
combining plates which removes the
NOTES and trash from the lint as it is
taken from the seed. The seed cot
ton is cleaned of all dust, grit, and
much leaf trash and notes before. it
is passed to the attachment, by
small and inexpensive machine called
the cotton cleaner. 1t occupies a
space of only 40x40x48 inches. The
size of the gin is regulated by the
size OF the card with which it is to
be connected. The extreme dimen-
sions of gin Tor thirty six inch
card are 18x18x56 inches 1t is
framed to fit the frame of the card,
in place of the Ticker in and lap-roll,
as used in the old method, which en-
titles it to the ,appellation Of "attach-
ment." The Clement Attachment,
therefore, is simply the plantation or
Whitney gin SO modified and i'm
proved by Clement and others that il
works in direct connection with The
manufacturers card. 1t gentlygre-
moves the lint from the seed with
out breaking or naping it, and trans
ters it to the card cylinder by means
of a slow brush, without tangling, in.
exact proportion to the requirements
of the card-no coudensing, no lap
ping. 1t at once dispenses with all
opening and tapping machinery, and
forms a new process of manutactur-
ing whereby seed cotton is made d.
rectly into silver. The silver is then
made directly into yarn by the usual
method.
A correspondent OF the Chicago
Tribune says: Many who may be
interested in reading OF the Clement
Attachment new process of manu-
featuring, may not be acquainted
with yarn making machinery, the Pc
culiar names and offices of the differ
ent parts, and it's workings. | will,
therefore, describe the.old method, in
this connection, in order TO give a
clearer understanding of the new.
The first operation in the oldmethod
is to open and loosen up the lint from
its pressed or compressed state, and
prepare it tor carding. The most
improved machines now in use for
these purposes are the compound
opener lapper and the tinisher lapper
with evener. The latter forms the
lap, which is kind OF wide cotton
bat, into a large roll called the lap
roll. The lap roll is then passed to
its place on the card frame, where it
is slowly unrolled and ted to the
card; the feeding is done by what is
known as the licker-in ard iced rolls.
The licker.in and feed rolls are fitted
to the card frame in close proximity
to the card cylinder, and as it
were, lick IN the lint to the
card cylinder. The card cylin.
der revolves under system OF top
fiat cards in such manner as to
comb it out, straighten, or lay paral-
lei the fiber. The fiber thus straight
ened is then removed from the card
cylinder by another ana smaller cyl.
inder, known as the doffer. 1t is
then stripped from the doffer by a
rapidly reciprocating comb into a
thin sheet, which is passed through a
guide and pair OF calender rolls
shaped into. continuous roll. or
silver. BY this method a line Or
system OF cards is always used; the
silver from the different cards is all
passed into one trough, or railway
box, as it is called, and conveyed by
an endless apron or belt to the rail-
way drawing head, where it is all
united and drawn into one, and de-
livered to a revolving tin can. The
cans so filled with silver are passed
10 the drawing frame where 1.-The
4 silver is again doubled and drawn. 1t
is then passed in the cans to the
coarse speeder, where it is drawn
! smaller and wound on spools. The
spools are then passed to the fine
speeder, where the rowing is doubled,
drawn and wound on other spools.
Thence to the spinning frames, where
the rowing is spun into yarn.
/ will now give the new or seed
cotton process. The first operation