The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-22

Corinth, Miss, and casually men
toned that he had seen certain
yarns made by some Middle Ten
nessean directly from seed cotton.
| Mr.. Whitfield, after some cores
pondence, discovered that Clements.
the inventor in question, had been
dead some two years. He pro-
ceeded to Pulaski, Tenn. and, upon
examination of the neglected ma
chine, was convinced of its extra
ordinary merit Having secured an
interest in It, and after making GER
| tain improvements, in consultation
with B. B. Smith, who had assisted
/ Clements in making his machine,
Mr.. F. E. Whitfield removed it to
a small factory in Northern Ala
bama, experimenting and i'm
proving, and taking out fresh
patens until the whole device was
protected from piracy. The Glenn
ents patent was for 10 new inven-
ton, but for a constellation of the
principles Of two machines that
have been in use for three Quarters
Of century-the gin and the card
for converting seed cotton by one
operation directly into slivers.
This machine consists Of a 36-
inch top-Aat, stripping card,
and the attachment which is a d.
minutive gin I8xI8x36 inches)
which is substituted for the Ticker
| in and feed rollers of the card; its
saws are inches in diameter, with
II teeth to the inch, and revolves
from 40 to $50 times per minute.
The brush connected with the saws
is cylinder covered with bristles,
its periphery revolves little faster
than the saws, and has traverse or
horizontal motion. The periphery
of the card travels little faster than
that OF the brush; a feed table is
placed above the card and connect
ed with the attachment. A stop
motion IS used to save waste in case
Of an accident. These, with small
drawing between the dotfer and
calender rollers, to reduce the silver
to ordinary working size, and can
motion to receive said 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 passes thence through the chute
into the attachment where the lint
is removed from the seed, and whilst
on the fine saw teeth (after passing
the ribsl passes through set of
combing plates, which removes all
extraneous matter, and delivers the
fiIaments to the brush, which
delivers them to the card, and
thence through the dofer, small
drawing and calender rollers, are
delivered as perfect silver into re-
yolying can,
Ry this process only four ma
chimes are necessary to convert any
given amount of seed cotton into
perfect yarns. viz; card, as changed,
drawing fame, speeder and spin
ming frame A cleans er of seed cotton
is used as a preparatory machine,
its size is 22x28x44 inches; costs,
SIS: capacity, 5,ooo pounds seed
cotton per day; ? power necessary
to drive one-half Of one horse.
The new process dispenses with
fully one half the building, one
third Ct the machinery, motive pow
er and operatives hitherto nece sary
to convert any given amount of
seed cotton into yarnsy causes the
card, with the same amount OF mo-
tive 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
CT baled cotton, which on account
of their extra strength, seldom break
or let down, thereby enabling ope-
ratives to attend more machinery
and each machine to do more work.
The thread is equal in every re-
spect to that made of baled cotton,
50 per cent. stronger and possesses
finer sheen.
The attachment superCedes the |
gin, press and compress, because
they are intended and only used to |
render cotton transportable: the |
willower, lapper, double lapper, |
breaker and four ffths of the cards, |
because they are only used to try |
TO remedy the injury done by the
gin, press and compress; If super
sedes the railway, railway drawing |
head, also all jack frames. shrubbers,
mules, twisters, eveners, etc, etc,
simply because they are costly and
machines and perfect
thread can be made without them.
This is wonderful progress, in.
deed, and some fourteen or fifteen
mills. located in many States, from
Virginia to Texas, have been run
ming for the past two years with
most satisfactory results. The live,
fresh cotton made flxible and elastic
by the absorption of oil from the
seed produces a yarn which is pro-
n ,unced by manufacturing experts
as unrivalled in its way. Only seed
cotton can be used bv this process,
and as this will not bear long trans
portation. the mill must be near the
cotton field. From the making Of
yarns there is but a step to the man
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