The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-01-21
jar. Goats, Spool Cotton Machinery.

/ agents OF MesSrs. d. ~ L. Goats. Is
not your spooling machinery little
old>fashioned and behind the times,
and is there not economy in the use
of the machine that winds eight spools
at time, while yours is winding only
two The question Is fair one, and
We answer by giving a condensed his
tory ct spooling machinery. Until
about twenty years ago all spool
cotton WIS wound on what were called
.SEud machines. The first really i'm
pOFtant improvement was made about
that period, and was the invention
! OF Mir. Weld, and known as the
Weld eight spool winder. 1t was a
great advance over previous inven-
lions, and Immediately came into
large use. j. ~ Z Goats, with other
manufacturers, adopted it in their
Scotch factories, where it has been in
operation ever since. At the time of
its invention more thread was used
for hand sewing than on sewing mas
chimes, and what has since proved
to be very serious objection to its use,
was at that time of very little impor-
lance, viz: that when a thread breaks
in spooling, it is necessary to stop the
winding of the entire eight spools
and tie the two ends with a knot.
Aside from this its work in the main
is satisfactory.
In 1857 or 1858 Mr.. Hezekiah
Conant, OF Connecticut, turned his at
tention to such machinery, and after
long experiment perfected the Conant
Winder now in use by j. d 2. Goats
in all their American mills, and which
they are rapidly substituting for the
Weld Eight>spooler in their Paisley
works. Mr.. Conant was also the in
ventor of the most successful spool
ticketer, and until his patent for the
same expired other inventors did not
try to get up new machines, as no
ticketer can be made to work unless
it embodies the main point of his pat>
ent, i. e., punching the ticket from
sheets or strips of paper. Equipped
with his two machines, Mr.. Conant
went to Scotland, and naturally SUBJ
mitted them to j. d p. Coats-iudg-
ing rightly that he was applying at
headquarters-it being an established
fact that this old firm, though pru-
dent and conservative, are ever on
the alert for anything that will in any
way improve the quality of their
goods, and will pay price that small.
er houses would scarcely risk. The
result was an Invitation to become
connected with their business, and
time has proved the wisdom of their
prompt decision. More than half of
all the six>cord spool cotton used in
the United States is now wounf on
the Conant spooler, and all parties
using sewing machines driven by
steam power testify to the advantage
of having thread spoiled on this ma.
chine. j. u P. Goats never consid.
cred the Weld Eight>spooler or the
Conant Winder "superhuman" ma.
chimes. If they had done SO. they
might have thought it wise to estab-
llsh kindergarten with its narrow
aisle and sihg ie row of seats in which
to exhibit it, and give object lessons.
They thought best when they entered
the Atlanta Exposition to establish
store room for their goods in the city,
and leave their space wide and free
with four large entrances, through
which the crowd surges as they enter
the Exposition; and it is safe to say
that their average attendance is about
the same as that registered at the en-
trance turn stiles. The thread spool
cotton displays at the Exposition are
well gotten up, and far in advance Of
the displays made by either firm in
Philadelphia or Paris. The visitors
recognize this, and no one comes with>
out looking at all of them and feeling
that they have received the full worth
OF their entrance fee, were there not
many other interesting objects to see.
But It is hard to tell how the compa.
ny who use the Weld Eight-spooler,
can say, "Thas their machinery is fif,
ty years in advance of that in use by
any other thread manufacturer, and
is admitted to be such by all competi.
tors" when two years ago, at the Gin
cinnati Exposition, they put their
Weld Eigbt-spooler, the Identical
machine they now exhibit at the At,
lanta Cotton Exposition, calling it
Zone of their many refnements, into
competition with the Conant Winder:
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