Laurelcrest Carpet Mill
Salute To Laurelcrest Carpets
50 Have Been Employed At
Laurelcrest Since Purchase
Of Carpet Mill In 1967
The management of Laurelcrest Carpets, a division of
Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. congratulates the employees who have
been with the company since the purchase of the Laurel
crest Carpet Mill by Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., in January, 1967
These employees are:
Dorothy Stack, Elnetta Patterson, Elmore Locklear, Samuel
^cklear, Ralph Norton, Myrtle Mumford, Harold Bailey
Howard Alford, Jessie Shaw, and Sherry Lee
I^vander Mu^hy, Eric LocUeav, James R. Chavis, Tony
Wilson, Peggy Dotson, Nannie M. McNeill, Willie Mae Mc-
Kenzie, Betty L. Parker, Virginia Chavis, and Clara King
Sara Radford, Willie J. John, John C. Lewis, Wilbert
R Jeanette Bartell.
Ruth Moody, Katherine Nowell, Jeanne S. Radford Marv
Robinson, Barbara Shoemake, Mary E. Stubbs, Josie H
Swann, Libby Wilhams, and James L. Alford
Hershel Evans, Myles Greene, Joe M. Ingram Rillv R
Locklear, Walter Lowery, John McNeil DnnnlH iw ^
Jimmy Reese, Clyde Smith and C. E. Strout. ^
Laurel Hill Plants Comprise
Complete Carpet Operation
Pictures on these two pages
show some of the people who
niake Laurelcrest carpets and
views of the plants at Laurel
Hill.
Laurelcrest Carpets, a
division of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc
carries through the entire
operation of carpet making,
from the raw material to the
finished product ready for the
consumer’s floor.
The processes begin at the
Yarn Mill where the raw
material (synthetic fiber) first is
blended, then sent to carding.
After the carding process, three
drawing operations prepare the
fiber for spinning.
After spinning to the desired
weight and twist, the spun yarn
is taken to the twisters where it
is plied into two or three plies
with additional twist.
From twisting, the yarn is
either wound onto cones or
reeled into skeins, depending
upon the style of carpet to be
made. Most of the reeled yarn is
heatset in autoclaves and then
wound onto cones for delivery to
the Laurelcrest Carpet Mill.
Those skeins which are not
heatset are sent to the Karastan
Rug Mill at Eden to be skein
dyed.
At the Laurelcrest Carpet
Mill, the yarn manufactured at
the Yarn Mill is first stored in
the yarn storage warehouse. It is
then removed as it is needed and
placed in the tufting machine
creels and tufted into carpet.
In the Tufting Department,
large tufting machines make a
variety of carpets from various
types of textured fibers. If the
yarn used in the tufting machine
is pre-dyed, the tufted fabric is
then sent to the Finishing
Department for a latex backing
to be applied. However, if the
yarn is not dyed it must be sent
to the beck dyeing kettles after it
is tufted.
The Dyeing Department has
beck dyeing kettles capable of
dyeing the tufted fabric any
shade or color needed for the
various lines. The dyed tufted
fabric is then sent to ^
ing Department w j
backing is applied'
is to be cut pile or plus
sent to the shean g
where dual actio ,
knives cut the
uniform pile heig^ ■
The carpet is th®!
final inspection and J
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