Rocky Mount Mills

ESTABLISHED 1818

Carded Cotton Yarns
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General Superintendent

HYMAN L. BATTLE
Treasurer and Manager

RONALD E. STEVENS
Assistant Treasurer

 
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WittiAM HENRY SUMME twenty-three years service, trucks a bale of
cotton from the storage warehouse to the bale opening room.

JoNATHAN CLEE EpWArRpDs, seven years service, feeds cotton into a
opening machine which starts the process of mixing, blending and cleaning

the fibers.

 
Witt1AM Doucias Hayes, mechanic, six years service, cleans out a
picking machine which continues the cleaning and blending process and
rolls the cotton into batts called laps.

Roy Eucrene HopewE yt, fifteen ice, operates a carding machine. ae
Here the lap is fed between revolving cylinders covered with thousands of
wire teeth to clean and card the fibers into a web which comes off in the form
of a tangled mass called card sliver.

 
Tommie Lee TuHompson, twenty-five years service, operates a roving

frame. . Drawing sliver is drafted between rollers to reduce it into a finer
strand called roving. For strength the roving is twisted slightly as it is wound
on bobbins.

Euta Wixuis BLaytock, five years service, runs a drawing frame where
several card slivers go through the first process of parallelizing the fibers into
a strand called drawing sliver.

 
Rutu WiiuiAmMs HowELL, seventeen years service, tends an automatic
winder. This complex machine automatically ties and winds yarn from a
spinning bobbin to a large tube for ease of handling in the next step.

Joe Ta.zort, nine years service, removes, or doffs, full pack:

from a ring spinning frame. Here roving is drafted between rollers into yarn
and spun onto bobbins.

 
 

Mary Louise Lancsrton, nine years service, runs a high speed winder to
transfer plied yarn from twister bobbins to cones or other type packages as
requested by customers. Wr1Li1AM Davin Howe LL, mechanic, twenty-seven
years service, adjusts a part on the machine.

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Lewis Howarp Woop, eleven years service, reties broken yarn ends on a
twisting frame. Supply tubes are placed at the top of the frame in the creel.
Two or more strands are drawn down between rollers and twisted together
as they are wound onto bobbins as plied yarn.

 
1. Cotton Storage Warehouses; 2. Waste Mill;*3. Cafeteria; 4. Main Mill; 5.” Power House;
6. Main Office; 7. Finished Yarn Storage, Shipping and Supply Room; 8. Testing and
Experimental Laboratory; 9. Personnel Building.

 
 

Jacos Barrie Avent, shipping clerk, eighteen years service, enters bale
and: case descriptions on a shipping ticket to fill a customers order.

Lewis Ciirron Woop, six years service, reties broken yarn ends on a
warper. Hundreds of strands are drawn from cones and wound side by side

on a huge spool, or beam, which will go into a loom in some customers weave
mill,

 
ALEXANDRIA MALpass, two years service, turns a piece of metal on a
lathe in the machine shop.

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Troy Ler Puexps, Assistant Production Manag twenty-three years
service, and Daviw H. Racktey, Test Clerk, eight years service, test yarn in
the laboratory.

 
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First shift lunch period in the cafeteria.

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Rocky Mount Mills

ESTABLISHED 18186

Carded Cotton Yarns
Rocky Mount,N.C. ,

 

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