EMPLOYEES DEVELOP NEW DEVICES
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Banner Leach and Chester Fraley
look over the specifications of their
idea for a direct drive of the friction
disk on the automatic clipper and in
spection machine. They received a
Cash award of $25.00 for their idea.
The direct disk drive replaces vee
belt drives. The vee belts were con
stantly wearing out and several hours
Were required to replace them. This
involved mechanics' time and loss of
production while the machine was shut
down. No belts are used in the new
drive.
Leach and Fraley have also develop
ed a red uction gear attachment for the
hand clipper.
Another of Leach's machine im
provements is the power drive for a
grommet machine. Many of our socks
^re now packaged in cellophane enve
lopes for self service. After the enve
lope has been sealed, a grommet is
placed in the top of the envelope for
hanging the socks on display racks.
The original machine required the
operator to drive the grommet through
With a foot-operated direct drive. Ban
ner attached a power driven clutch which
enables the operator to increase pro
duction with less effort.
Howard Young, Carl Hatley, Roy
Dean, Willis Taylor and L. W. Dean,
all of Plant #4, have developed a suction
device to take string clippings from the
knitting machine. Utilizing compr es sed
air, the suction device is attached to the
dial head, pulling the clippings from the
knives and blowing them into a suction
box.
The suction device eliminates loose
ends in the stockings. The knitter does
not have to stop the machines to clean
clippings from under the knives. It
keeps the thread from slipping from
under the clamps, thereby greatly re
ducing cut-outs in the heel and toe.
Records of 9 knitters working with
30 machines equipped with the suction
device and 30 machines without the de
vice show waste is reduced approxi
mately 25% by the use of the suction
attachment.
Needle consumption and machine
breakdown are also reduced by the suc
tion. Seconds, irregulars and other
off-grades show reduction in the finish
ing room.
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