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FIGURE OUT THE COST


In short, the brass- bushed filling bobbin is an


improved tool. It costs about one- sixth more than the


inferior tool. If you hesitate to give your spinners and


weavers this improved tool, try one or more of the


following suggestions.


Compare the average life of your old- style bobbins


with that of the brass- bushed bobbins in some mill with


similar spinning and weaving conditions.


Look over your supply of fIlling bobbins as sent to the


weave room, and your spinning frames, where the


comparison will be striking, and see the percentage of yarn


they contain in comparison with what you would have


with all bobbins fIlled to the full length of the trav. erse.


Figure what this increase in yarn would mean in


reduced costs in your spinning and weaving.


Ask your overseer of weaving what troubles he is


having from partly fIlled bobbins.


If he is running a feeler on part or all of his looms, ask


him how these partly filled bobbins affect the operation of


that mechanism.


Ask him how much more waste he is making than he


would if the yarn started evenly on all his bobbins.


Ask him how many bobbins he finds with yarn wound


over the butt and rings, and what these bobbins do to his


weaving.


Ask him about loose rings on the bobbins and how


bobbins with rings of varying sizes reduce his production


and increase his seconds.


Figure out what it costs per year to ream your present


bobbins.

Cotton Chats 1923, No. 241, Page 8