LESS WASTE COTTON

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4220, 6 December 1939, Page 11

LESS WASTE COTTON

IN THE TEXTILE TRADE. In these days of keen competition, every manufacturing firm has to realise that much money can be saved by eliminating waste. By-products are made from most goods, and new devices arebeing invented to find ways of up second-class stock. A Lartlfashire cotton firm, for example, had for years suffered a. loss of yarn because when the old type of siring plant machinery came to a standstill, the supply of humid air which kept the yarn pliable, was cut off, leaving exposed yam to become dry and brittle. Textile manufacturers are grateful indeed, therefore, for a device which will prevent the loss of much good material. When cotton yam is ready for the last process before Teaching the loom, it is passed through a tank containing a iboiling mixture of flour and size, which gives it smoothness and additional strength so that :t can stand the strain of weaving. After passing through the tank it is dried qtrickly, being carried over

huge drums and rollers up into towers filled with warm, slightly, damp air. Between the point where the yarn leaves the size tank and that at which, dried, it is wound again on to a beam, there are naturally many yards of yarn. This was the yarn which was at one time wasted. Th,e new invention prevents the waste, for when the machinery stops, it automatically controls the supply of humid air. Thus the yam no longer becomes too dry, and one more cause of serious loss has been eliminated HE’S NO LAWYER. Witness: I think Lawyer: We don’t care what you think. We want to know what you know. Witness: If you don’t want to know what I think, I may as well leave the stand, for I can’t talk without thinking. I’m not a lawyer. NOT A NECESSITY. A Scotsman has invented a bagpipe which pla,ys when, plugged into a light socket. And yet it it is said that necessity is the mother of invention.