Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-18
LOOM RECORDS.
Which Have Been Made
in Machinery for Weaving.


The Northrop loom was discussed at
the recent meeting Of the New England
Cotton Manufacturers association. In
paper read by f. N. Messenger IL was
stated that the production was very
much larger per loom, averaging a cut
per loom per day. The cost per pound
was very much less, nearly l per cent.
The expenditure for power was about
the same as with the ordinary loom
with the same class of goods. The
goods ran better With fewer seconds.
/ The weavers ran more looms, and
though they We're paid 20 per cent. less
per cut, yet they made more wages
than upon the old looms, and fewer
changes in the help were noted. The
weayers found the looms easy to lea,n
TO run, and so far had required little
for lcpairs, and one loom fixer took
care of rs TO 100 looms
j. H. Hines, of burlington. VT, re-
ported that some Of die weaye4s ran 20
OF these looms at a tine.
H. ID. Wheat, OF the Gaffney Manu-
featuring company Gaftney G. c., re-
ported that the mill had these looms in
operation for six months and were so
satisfied with them tlat he had given
an order for them for new mill. The
plan was to take a weaver who ran six
OF the old looms and make him run
four of the new looms. In few days
he could handle with ease six or more
of the looms without difficulty. The
wages are so adjusted that the weaver
earns from so cents TO $1.05 per day.
Upon this scale the production of the
Northrop loom is so much in excess of
the old loom that the price per cut is
very much less. There is also a very
small percentage of seconds, and the
cost per sound is lessensd by three
fourth cent. Each fixer tends about
100 looms per day The most trouble
had been with the shuttles, but lately
this had been done away with by put
ting leather on the binder, and the
cost of the shuttles had been reduced
one-half He did not figure that the
looms had cost any more than the old
Icons for repairs, and beside the profit
in their use there was less trouble for
the operatives. The speed of the loom
was from 100 TO $50 picks.
General w. F. Draper said that the
labor cost of weaving was about one
half the total labor cost in the manu-
facture of cotton goods, and any i'm
portant saving in this item must mean
an immense profit to the manufacturer
and this, it was expected the loom
would do. Against the Increased pro
duction of the loom was to be set the
possible costs of extra expense. 1t did
not appear, however, in practice. that
the repairs We're any greater upon this
loom. The only complicated part of
this loom was the cop changer. and
this was required to operate only once
IN six to eight minutes, so could not
wear very much, while the loom itself
works $50 times a minute. The shut
tie caused possibly little more trou-
Bile The warp stop-motion was de-
scribed and the various WAYS and har-
ness in use for it, fhe benefit of this
device was shown. With one kind the
item of drawing in was rather more
costly, and on this account wire har-
ness is preferred. with possibly a
slightly better yarn needed. Giving
these the full value as against the
loom, there still remained a very large
saving in the cost of producing cloth
by means OF this loom, and this fact
must bring it into use. There were
now in use over 1000 looms and con
tracts for $500 more and the Mason
Machine Works, Kilburn, Lincoln &
Co., Lowell Machine Shop Saco Ma
chine Shop and other shops were pre-
pared to build the loom in their own
way for their customers To the in
qufries as to whether or not the yarn
did not need more careful preparation.
he said that in some cases this was so.
Tests showing the power required to
drive various widths and makes of
looms We're contributed by various
members. The tests varied somewhat
in results, from two TO a horse power
for the widest looms to eight TO a horse
power for narrow looms. Providence
Journal