The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-18
THE CLEMENTS ATTACHMENT.
New Process of Converting
Seed Cotton
DIRECTLY INTO YARNS.


feed table, chute, traverse and stop mo-
ton, tat cost of $3.50 for the lickeriI
and feed rollers on the card. This is
easily and quickly done, and no Other
piece of machinery used is changed.
The attachment is a small gin, consist
ing of breast ribs, saws, a set Of combing
plates and brush. The saws, seven inches
in diameter, have fourteen fine teeth to
the inch. The brush is cylinder COW
cred with bristles. The whole (for q
thiTty-six inch CARD would be thirty-siX
inches long and eighteen inches square,
and occupies, precisely, the place and
space of the lickerin and feed rollers on
the card. The seed cotton, after passing
through the cleanser (where all dirt, dust,
sand, and great majority of the notes,
trash, etc, are rcmoved) is weighed and
spread on the feed apron, which de-
livers it by the chute, into the breast of
the attachment at the rate Of from four
teen to eighteen ounces per minute; the
saws revolving at about one-half the
speed of the ordinary gin, removes the
entire lint from the seed, passes it
through the combing plates, where all ex-
traneous matter, not removed by the
cleansers and saw-ribs, is cOmbed out
the brush then takes the lint from
the saws and delivers it to the card,
straight and PARALLEL not permit
ting it to leave the machinery, or become
tangled, and the card delivers the lint or
silver TO the railway trough, whence it
is, by the ordinary old process machines,
converted into yarns of any number.
LIST. 1t is claimed and practically dem
onstrated by all new process mills, that
the attachment dispenses with nearly one
half tho hnil1inpC motive ms
chinery and operations, hitherto necessary
to convert any given amount of seed cot
ton into yarns, in any specified time.
I'd. The card is made to do four times
as much work, using seed cotton and the
same amount of motive power, as it did
by the old process, using lint cotton after
it had passed through six or eight differ
ent machines.
Sd. That it removes all lint from the
seed ESTIMATED by oil men at six or eight
per cent. of the cotton), saves the waste
i'll the lint room of the gin, and the picker
room of the factory; also saves some
waste in the other factory rooms, on ac-
count of the superior strength of the
silver, rove and thread.
4th. That it produces stronger silver,
rove and thread, the latter of any numb
ers, more sheeny and fifty per cent
Illdu vi DtliCtl COtlOll,
thereby enabling operatives to attend
more machinery, and each machine to do
more work, especially in the spinning and
weave rooms.
9Th. That it saves the ginning, baling,
bagging and ties.
9th. That the seed is worth six dollars
per ton more to the manufacturer.
18th. That it cuts off all competition,
as seed cotton, only, can be used, which
will not bear long transportation.
8th. That it dispenses with cotton
bales and thereby saves all the usual end
less clippings in expenses, loss, waste,
sampling, perquisites, stealage, specula-
ton, ETC., of middle men and others
thereon.
9th. That seed cotton remaining in
bulk from eight to twelve months, enhan-
ceS in market value from one and half
to two cents per pound Qint) by absorb
ton of oil from the seed by the filaments,
which improves the staple, increasing its
weight and tractility, causing it to work
up with less waste: whilst baled cotton
standing the same length of time, deteri-
CRATES in market value from one to one
and a half cents per pound-becOmes dry,
seasoned and brittle, losing on the aver
age from eighteen to twenty-five pounds
per bale, and loosing greatly in waste in
being worked up in this dry state.
10th. That the large sums annually ex-
pended in building, repairing and insuring
ginneries would be saved.
18th. That it greatly lessons the risk
of fire, from the fact of the small guam
tity of lint exposed; as the lint room of
the gin and picker rooms of the factory,
with all their fast running machinery, and
the flying lint are dispensed with.
18th That it saves the damage done
by the ginin cutting, knaping and tangl-
INC the staple; the damage done by the
press and compress, and the damage done
by the complicated machinery of the
picker room in trying to remedy the above
injuries
The following advantages apply both to
the old and new process mills located
near the cotton fields.
18th. That as bales of textile fabrics
are more easily handled, occupying less
space and are worth three or four times
more per pound than baled cotton, there
would be saving of freight: and the
freight, profits and other expenses, and
that portion of the goods consumed in
the South, would be entirely saved.
18th. 1t will employ large number of
women and children, whose labor other
wise is almost valueless.
10. 1t will save to the South to be
spent at home the large margin of one
hundred per cent. between the raw mate
rial and the yarn, and of 2, 3, or 500
per cent. in converted into textile fab
RIGS.
10th. 1t will increase our population
and the money circulation, and afford
better educational and church privil-
eyes.
18th. 1t will utilize our wasting water
power-mOre reliable than that of the
North, coal mines and forests of
timber.
18th. 1t will enhance the value of real
estate and increase the demand for pro-
ducts from the farms
10Th. 1t will attract capital from the
North and draw machinery to the mate
rial.
The attachment supercedes the gin,
press, compress, bagging and ties because
they are intended and only used to render
cotton transportable; also the willower,
lapper, double-lapper and breaker cards,
because they are only used in trying to
remedy the injury done by the gin, press
and compress, it causes the cards to do
four times as much work because it per-
mits only One-fourth the tangling of fla
mentS done by he gin. The saving of
one-half the usual waste is because fresh
elastic cotton only is used, and much ma
chinery discarded. The extra strength
of the thread (the half of which has not
been published)) and sheen is owing to
the working of cotton fresh from the
seed, the oil of which has kept it alive,
elastic, flexible, with all its alternating
properties perfect, and to the fact that
it has never been cut, mapped or tangled
nv the oip f.omDracSad nor NOR
mitted TO become dry, seasoned and
brittle in this tangled condition; nor has
it been injured by the willower, lapper,
double-lapper and breaker cards, where
the damage by the gin, press and COM
press are sought to be remedied
The cost of ginneries necessary to pre-
pare the last cotton crop of 5000, 900