AN ARTIFICIAL SILK.
Lehner's artificial silk is a new material for use m textile manufacture, possessing distinct and valuable characteristics, which render it, says the prospectus of the company formed for its manufacture, unique among all fibres existing. As the rtjsult of study and analysis of the natural methods of production of silk by the silkworm, the inventor has. by simple- chemical and mechanical means, .closely and successfully reproduced a . natural process. Wood pup, cotton, or jute waste, &c., are chemically digested and the liquid product is spun by a mechanical silkworm to a thread of even diameter throughout and of unbroken and unlimited tengt'u. The same machine which draws the threads from the liquid twists these threads m any desired number into the requisite "count," or thickness of yarn, m one uninterrupted and continuous process with perfect regularity. The machine is inexpensive and extremely simple. It can be run day and night without intermission, and requires but little power and attention.
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Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1819, 30 July 1895, Page 3
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162AN ARTIFICIAL SILK. Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1819, 30 July 1895, Page 3
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