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Saco-Lowell Bulletin (April 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (April 1928)
Periodical · 12 pages
Volume I, Number 2 (April 1928) of the Saco-Lowell Bulletin, a monthly trade publication of the Saco-Lowell Shops, textile machinery makers. The main articles cover cotton opening and blending equipment layouts that replace bin mixing, and large-package ring spinning for coarse yarn counts, with frame specifications and mill results. Shorter items report long-draft spinning breaking-strength tests, an obituary and personnel changes, new irregularly fluted rolls, and the consolidation of the Metallic Drawing Roll Company into Saco-Lowell Shops. Illustrated with machinery layout diagrams and photographs of a Shanghai mill and spinning bobbins.
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (August 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (August 1928)
Periodical · 12 pages
August 1928 issue (Vol. I, No. 6) of the Saco-Lowell Bulletin, a monthly house organ of the Saco-Lowell Shops, textile machinery makers. It describes the Atkins Rotary Syphon System for draining slasher cylinders, with photographs and a sectional drawing, and gives a biographical sketch of Martin A. Roth, inventor of the Le Blan-Roth long draft spinning system. It also presents the Saco-Lowell Constant Motion Chain Drive for roving frames, explaining the gain and loss in tension of the older "Horsehead" gear drive, and carries advertisements for Saco-Lowell cards and One-Process pickers.
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (c. 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (c. 1928)
Periodical · 2 pages
A two-page annual index to the 1928 issues of the Saco-Lowell Bulletin, published by the Saco-Lowell Shops, a New England textile machinery maker. Entries are grouped by cotton mill process (opening and mixing, picking, carding, drawing, roving, spinning, twisters, warping, slashers) and give article titles with the month of issue. Topics include long draft spinning, one-process pickers, high speed twisters and warpers, and metallic drawing rolls.
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (December 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (December 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin, December 1928
Periodical · 12 pages
December 1928 "Accessories Number" of the Saco-Lowell Bulletin, a monthly house organ of the Saco-Lowell Shops of Boston. It describes how the company manufactures the critical parts of cotton spinning machinery: metallic drawing rolls, steel rolls, flyers, spindles (including Fournier & Lemoine clutch and S.K.F. roller-bearing types) and spinning and twister rings. It also includes a note on the Bulletin's readership in Japan, a list of retrofit improvements for pickers, drawing, roving and slashers, and a short promotion of the company organization. Illustrated with photographs and drawings of the parts.
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (July 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (July 1928)
Periodical · 12 pages
July 1928 issue (Volume I, Number 5) of the Saco-Lowell Bulletin, a monthly trade publication of the Saco-Lowell Shops, devoted to cotton picking machinery. The lead article describes the One Process Picker with synchronized control of eveners and an intermediate hopper rake, with lap-weight data and results from installations such as Langley Mills, S.C. Shorter pieces cover Kitson pickers and the 24-inch Buckley beater, a new friction release for calender racks, a beater safety guard for the No. 12 Opener, and an advertisement for spinning frames.
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (June 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (June 1928)
Periodical · 12 pages
June 1928 issue (Volume I, Number 4) of the Saco-Lowell Bulletin, a monthly house magazine of the Saco-Lowell Shops, a manufacturer of cotton textile machinery. The lead article describes the Saco-Lowell Long Draft spinning system (Le Blan-Roth patent), with its four-roll principle, single belt, and mill examples of labor and power savings. Shorter items cover a miniature waste-reclamation mill, card clothing and reclothing service, customer letters on a high speed warper and tape drive twisters, and advertisements for spinning frames.
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (March 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (March 1928)
Periodical · 6 pages
Partial issue of the Saco-Lowell Bulletin, a trade house organ of the Saco-Lowell Shops, a cotton machinery maker, dated March 1928. It includes an article on high speed warping with cost comparisons against the old system (waste, labor, spools, stops per loom), an announcement of the closing of the Lowell Machine Shop plant and consolidation into the remaining plants, and an article on the company's development of Long Draft Spinning. A back page promotes the Saco-Lowell organization and its line of cotton machinery.
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (May 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (May 1928)
Periodical · 12 pages
Issue (Volume I, Number 3, May 1928) of a monthly house bulletin issued by the Saco-Lowell Shops, a cotton spinning machinery maker. It contains a lead article arguing that slow doffer speeds on revolving flat cards give more even sliver and stronger yarn, with Arkwright and Texas mill test tables. Other items cover twelve questions to ask when buying mill machinery, ball-bearing power savings on spinning frames, a Charlotte repair shop, a new positive knock-off for pickers, a European customer's letter on high speed twisters, and a short note on Hargreaves' spinning jenny.
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (November 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (November 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin, November 1928
Periodical · 12 pages
November 1928 issue (Volume I, Number 9) of the Saco-Lowell Shops' house bulletin for cotton mills. The main article describes the company's "Waste System" for cleaning cotton waste and spinning it into waste yarns, covering the Kitson Willow, Card and Picker Waste Cleaner, Hard Waste Machine, double carding, lap winder, and a table of waste mixes for hosiery, blanket, osnaburg, carpet, burlap, twine and rope yarns. Shorter items include an editorial on the outlook for the textile industry, superintendents' testimony on ball bearings on spinning frames, and a report on the company's exhibit at the Greenville textile show, with a comparison of large package and regular spinning frames.
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (October 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (October 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin, October 1928
Periodical · 32 pages
Special Greenville Textile Show issue (Volume I, No. 8, October 1928) of the Saco-Lowell Bulletin, a trade publication of the Saco-Lowell Shops. It previews the company's exhibit, with a booth floor plan, and describes the machines on display: a revolving flat card with continuous stripper, one-process picker, bale breaker with electric feed control, roving frame with chain drive, Le Blan-Roth long draft spinning, large package and regular spinning frames, high speed and fine twisters, and a high speed warper. Each article covers design features and claimed benefits, with photographs and cross-section diagrams.
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (September 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin (September 1928)
Saco-Lowell Bulletin, September 1928
Periodical · 12 pages
September 1928 issue (Volume I, Number 7) of the Saco-Lowell Bulletin, a trade periodical from the Saco-Lowell Shops of Boston promoting cotton mill machinery. It covers automatic bale mixing in opening rooms, conversion of three-process picking to the One-Process Picker with synchronized control, and mill reports on the Saco-Lowell drawing frame, Long Draft spinning and spinning frames. Includes layout diagrams, tables of cleaning droppings before and after changeover, yarn breaking-strength comparisons, a note on Spain's order to scrap old textile machinery, and advertisements.
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