Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-12-12
TO IMPROVE COTTON
New York Mdn Has Remarkable In.
VeDtiOn.
WOULD TAKE CARE Of LOW GRADE
Claim is Made That It Works Sue
eessfully and May Revolutionize Mill

following interesting. story OF much
interest to the south:
Phillip C. Wadsworth, inventor of a
process bearing his name, and de-
signed to raise the grades of low
grade cotton to a point where super
ior cloth can be turned out from
staple which is almost worthless, yes
terday demonstrated his process and
it's results to a picked group of cot
ton men and newspaper representa-
tives at the experimental plant, 5Oth
street and First avenue, Brooklyn.
The development of the apparatus was
revelation to experienced men who
witnessed for the first time the spec
tacle of low grade, dirty gritty staple
cotton being cleaned and raised to a
point where it graded several notches
above the original grading and even
exceeded ordinary. cotton of the high
er grade in spinning qualities.
Following the demonstration the in
ventor explained his process. Broadly
speaking, the textile advantages of
cotton treated in this manner are en-
braced in the three following claims:
Elimination of Trash.
First: The grade is raised from low
to high, insofar as trash, said, ETC., are
concerned, without damage to the
fibre.
Second: Cotton of any color, put
through this process, bleaches white
in the cloth or skein without tenering,
in the process,
Third: Trash, notes, immature and
short f1bres contained in the raw cot
ton are eliminated by this process,
which makes the character Of the
treated cotton very much superior to
that in the original bale. This means
a larger percentage of yarn than is
even made with raw cotton of the
same grade to which this cotton has
been raised by the process.
"In support of these claims, it might
be stated that corroboration has been
received in the case Of hundreds of
bales thus handled" said Mr.. Wads-
worth. Numerous mill runs and
scientific tests afford additional proofs.
Cotton mill machinery is designed
for the use of and operates on, raw
cotton of high grades to the best ad-
vantage in the production Of character
and tensile strength OF the manu-
factured yarn
I'm using American raw cotton good
middling and grades above give the
best possible results. In the use of
grades below good middling there
must be eliminated from the raw cot
ton quantities Of notes short and i'm
mature fibres, sand, leaf-trash and
other extraneous matter.
Cleaning Methods Criticised.
Under the most advantageous at
mospheric conditions for spinning at
cotton mill, the elimination of foreign
matter from the raw cotton cannot be
accomplished to the best advantage,
and every practical cotton spinner
knows that the methods generally in
use for cleaning cotton have an ex-
ceedingly detrimental effect upon the
spinning quality Of the fibre, /. e.,
twist, and that the yarn produced by
the use Of grades of cotton below
middling is not as strong as that pro-
duced by the use of the higher grades.
Many practical cotton mill men
will admit that the methods used IN
cleaning cotton in cotton mills, and
preparing it for economic spinning,
are .murderous.' In recent years
number OF machines have been intro
duced in the cotton mills for cleaning
cotton by less harsh methods, but as
previously stated, cotton cannot be
properly cleaned under atmospheric
conditions required at mills to main
tain the best conditions for spinning.
"The use of grades Of cotton below
good middling is producing yarn or IN
ferior tensile strength and much COM
plaint is heard at the laundries all over
the country. This has reached the
point where the Laundry Owners as
sociation has taken active steps to
show where the fault lies in the fact
that laundered fabrics are so quickly
ruined in the wash.
when cotton fibre is in its best
condition for spinning it adheres close
ly, fibre to fibre, twist to twist, and
any eXtraneous matter, such as fine
particles of dust, sand or leaf, ETC., in
tcrfcre with the natural spinning ten
dency of the fibre, for in this condi-
ton the tendency to adhere is just as
marked as to eXtraneous matter as to
the fibre itself So that any operation
in use at any cotton mill which is
successful in eliminating this trash
from the fibre in this condition, must
of a necessity, and does, eliminate the
twist, tear and break the fibre.
Little Low Grade Used in War.
During the war cotton mills were
required by government regulation, in
doing government work, to use, eX-
clusively, high grade cotton and most
of the mills I'll over the world were
active in government work, so that
very little low grade cotton was used