Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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High-Quality ; Yarn In, ; Good Loom Beams Out Regardless of how good your slashing may be. or how much you have invested in weaving machines, you won't produce top-quality beams or realize high weaving efficiency if 4 yarn quality is below par. Clinton has gone to great lengths to see * that this is not the case at Geneva. A new 96-in. warper (West Point Foundry) accomnanipd thp npw slashpr installation Section beams normally contain 612 ends. Warper stops average 0.17/millionend yd. Warping is critical in a plant where 12,000-end loom beams require about four weeks for runout. "A bad warp will stay with you a long time." notes Jones. So Geneva is doubly cautious about running leases and cleaning up crossed ends. It pays off: The 153-in. looms average 7.0 warp stops/100.000 picks, weaving double or triple fabric rolls. Geneva's well-maintained yam manufacturing equipment includes automatic stock feeding (Bale-O-Matic, Automatic Material Handling), intimate blending (Fiber Controls). chutes (Continental Moss Gordin), rebuilt cards (Crosrol takeoffs), drawing (Rie lit HPPI v ^ ^l 49 / ^ ^W^KT^TI P^b^.v iS^KJN l?l? tTW M nxitiw#^ pJnftM r^ vVt^I HL< ?i-rSlT *"" ter) and ring spinning (MagneDraft, Piatt Saco Lowell). Flprtrnnir mnnitnrino tCnmnuTrnn nrn -v' ';t,i . tZ. 'j* \jtiM*M*mi*mM*m Geneva warper plays importa JB ^^B *V s-,s^'-t->* Geneva slasher has easy-access creel. vides efficiency and productivity information by style, shift, weaver and technician section, day and week. At Plant No. 1, these I -vl y&r ? -4fe9*9iMBr nt role in quality manufacturing. ^^ Page 7 numbers are consistent ? 96 percent and above. Clinton management and operating personnel won't accept anything less. I L, \ . I *!* wk, I B " HHpw t H