Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-11-29
facturers have not been slow in adopt
ing this new dye formula: The Oco-
nee Knitting Mills, Walhalla, S. G..

1uR tGlS new aye iOTmuid ne OCO-
nee Knitting Mills, Walhalla, s. G.
This mill has just made considerable
alterations in it's dye house and is
now running on full time and very
busy. The Newberry Knitting Mill,
Newberry, S. c.; Scott. Harving Ho-
siery Mill, Manning, S. c.; The
Shamrock Hosiery Mills, Winston
Salem, N. c.; Scotland Neck Cotton
Mills, Scotland Neck, n. G.; The
Mathis 81 Davis Co., and Davis
Hosiery Mills, East Chattanooga,
Tenn, and Richmond Hosiery Mills,
Rossville, Ga. In the North: In
Philadelphia, Angola Dyeing Co.,
Brown-Aberle Co., Thomas w. Buck
Hosiery Co., E. J. Chester Hosiery
Co., Chester Dyeing Co., Dragon Dye
Works, A. T. Harris Dyeing Co.,
Indellible Fast Black Dye Works,
Pilling & Madeley, E. Sutro & Son !;
Towanda Knitting Co., Towanda,
Pa; w. G. Urner & Co., Spring City,
Pa; Mellerose Hosiery Mills, East
Strasburg, Pa; The No)de & Horse
Hosiery Mile Reading, Pa; The
Pond Lily Dye Works, New Haven,
Conn; Salem Kr;'ting Mills, Salem,
N. j.; Mankat Mills, Mankato,
MINI.
Of every color N wn there are
none 80 complicated and interesting
as aniline fast black on cotton hosiery.
Aniline! What is it The general
public knows very little of it, if any
thing at all. For the benefit of the
reader / will describe, in short
paragraph, what it is. 1t is known
that in manufacturing gas from coal
that there is heavy, black oil that
separates from the coal during its
distillation, to make gas for lighting
and kitchen purposes. This heavy,
black oil is known as coal tar and
contains more than forty different
products that are made use of in the
dye industry and medicine. Among
these products there is one known in
chemistry (in the English language)
as benzol, but known as benzine in
French and in America. This ben
zol or benzine is light oil, distilled
from the heavy coal tar, and is the
base of the aniline with which ami
line black is dyed on cotton. To
transform it into aniline it has to
undergo different chemical processes,
briefly as follows: The benzol, or
benzine, is first mixed with suita-
BILE proportion of nitric acid and
when the process is over we have a
product known as nitro-benzol, or
nitro benzine, which has pleasant
odor Of bitter almond and is extern
sively used in perfumery and soap
making to give that pleasant bitter
almond flavor, and is sold under the
name of coil mirbane." When this
nitro benzol is further treated with q
reducing agent, such as zinc or iron
in powder, in suitable proportions,
it transforms from nitro -benzol to
aniline oil. This aniline oil is fur
thermore treated with hydrochloric
acid to combine with the chlorine of
this acid, which forms hydrochlorate
of aniline. This crystalizes into
beautiful, flat, white crystals, and is
the product with which aniline blacl
is formed directly upon cott'
hosiery by a very interesting and
complicated process.
As there are no ready prepared
aniline black colors on the market
for the use of dyers, as are blue, red
and yellow, we must, therefore, pro-
duce the color upon the cotton itself
by process known as aniline oxi-
dizing process, as follows: The
hydrochlorate of aniline, known also
rs aniline salt, is dissolved in water.
The cotton to be dyed is saturated
with the solution, havin G in its COM
pound various oxygen salts that must
all be non-poisonous in order to
make non-poisonous dye. When