Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1880-01-22

dered oily, silky and pliable. A house
cos ing one hundred dollars will shelter
seed cotton enough to supply one new
process Factory for twelve months. The
Choestoee Creek here is only six horse
power. It has been ascertained that a
second Attachment in the same building
only adds about one-third to the expense
Of running a single machine. This West
minister Cotton Mill began to spin cotton
about lst April, 1878.
But after all, what is the elements
Attachment?" 1t is some simple ma.
chinery for preparing from seed cotton a
superior specimen Of silver. BY the away,
silver is nothing but a cotton roll with
out any twist. All the spinning is done
by the ordinary Danforth spinning frames
two hundred and sixty-four spindles,
for one Attachment. Connects modified
Whitney gin with a Wellman Top Flat
card, and you have the Attachment in q
frame occupying but little more space
than the ordinary gin. Let us go a little
more into detail. The seed cotton is first
run through a cleaner, which, armed
with large crooked spikes of iron, re-
volving twelve hundred times per min
ute, separates the locks of the feecy sta
pie, knocking and blowing out nearly
all the trash, sticks, and dirt. The cot
ton thus nicely cleaned, is then carefully
weighed so as to put n pound n two
ounces upon a space of forty-two square
inches Of the endless apron, or feed ia
BILE, which drops the cotton through a
chute into The gin, which turns only n
hundred and fifty times per minute-a
great deal less than the ordinary speed.
BY this slow ginning, the cotton fibres
are not tangled, nor chopped up into
short pieces. Five-sixths, or more, OF
these fibres are Kept parallelto each other
while on their course, and the same ends
continue foremost. Hence it is, that the
cards can accomplish four or five times
as much as is dene in the same lengtb,of
time by the Old method. The Attach
ment gin has sixty-four saws occupying
about the space OF forty saws in the or
binary gin, and the teeth are not 30 long
as in other gins. The diameter OF he
saws in the Attachment is seven inches,
and there are thirteen teeth to the inch.
The brush is made much closer than he
ordinary gin brush, and it is only nine
inches in diameter, making three hun
bred revolutions per minute. From this
brush, the cards, with n hundred and
fifty turns per minute, arc distant about
one-eighth of an inch. The cotton seeds
drop cleaner from this gin than frc.n any
I have ever seen, and the general waste
is almost imperceptible.
A few more particulars, and / am done.
The Westminster New Process Yarn
Mill requires the labor of seven young
boys and girls, besides the Superlntend'
ent-operative and contingent expenses,
four dollars and fifty cents per day. The
Attachment dispenses with opener pick
er and lapper; also the press, compress,
bagging and ties. The microscope shows
that the fibres Of cotton are covered with
little hooks, linking each fibre 70 the
other, and thus producing strong thread.
Those little hooks are broken and worn
off by rapid ginning, and by the old pro-
cess of making yarns out of dry, harsh
cotton in the bale, which has lost all the
essential oil issuing from the seeds.
1t seems to me that the Clements At
tachment" is a good thing for the Cotton
States But if 1 were forced to give adj
vice to my worst friend, I would say:
hasten slowly and look we'll before you
leap. If you want to make an invest
ment of your money, make careful CAL
culatiors. and then divide all the sup
posed net profits by two, so that there
may be no disappointment.
Straws show the direction Of breezes.
Judging from the crowds Of travellers
that ] saw the other day on board Of the
splendid cars of the Greenville& Column
bia Railroad, I would venture to say that
the people begin to feel the tidal wave Of
returning prosperity. So mote tt.6e.
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