Newspapers / Fieldcrest mill whistle. / Feb. 17, 1964, edition 1 / Page 4
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before method improvement at ^dspread Mill, the above picture AFTER new system began, filling waste was re amount above being checked by II. C. Collins- illustrates amount of filling waste from a day’s operation. Better Way' Reduces Filling Wasi^ An improved method with close at tention and cooperation by the em ployees concerned has brought a reduc tion in filling waste at the Bedspread Mill making possible a substantial year ly savings. In the weave room, soiled or damaged bobbins picked up from the floor were placed in the quill cans. The magazine fillers tossed into the cans any bobbins with a bad build. Also, loom vibration and the slant of the filling boxes some times caused bobbins to fall into the quill can or onto the floor. Under the old system, the good bob bins that found their way into the cans were allowed to remain there. The quill collectors dumped all of the contents of the cans and carried the entire lot to the quill stripper. There the full bobbins were tossed into cans and allowed to accumulate before being carried to the winder room to be sorted. The good bobbins were returned to the weave room; bob bins with a bad build were rewound on cones and then wound back on filling quills on the Schweiter winder; dirty or greasy filling was wound on cones to be sold as twine. No Accumulation Now With the new method, there is no ac cumulation of unused bobbins. The magazine fillers and quill collectors see that good bobbins go back into the fill ing boxes. Soiled bobbins and those with a bad build still are placed in the quill cans. But from that point the system is dif ferent. At the quill stripper the bobbins are still placed in cans but the cans are returned to the winder room daily. There, H. C. Collins, yam packer and server, checks every bobbin. He sends the good ones back to the weave room. The bobbins with a bad build go di rectly to the Schweiter winder, omitting the former cone winding step. Those that cannot be salvaged are wound to cor-.es and sold as twine. The daily follow-up prevents the fill ing from accumulating and becoming more soiled or damaged. Corrections in winding have reduced the number of bad builds to such an extent that they can be handled by the Schweiter winder without being wound on cones first In the weave room, the positions of the filling boxes have been changed to prevent bobbins from falling out. The loomfixers continually make adjust ments to reduce the amount of knocked- out filling. And, importantly, the coop eration of employees has been enlisted in keeping filling bobbins off of the floor. This has resulted in a big reduc tion in the number of dirty ^ bobbins. -ei In commenting on the Giles Runnings, mill superin^ M said: “We are concentrating ■i elimination of urmecessary our people are cooperating in a '' jy# ful way. The employees realize> ^^jcS' that the reduction of waste is the ^ and simplest way to lower that it usually takes no more i do something right than to wrong. . p a** “We appreciate the coopera i interest shown by employe^ fidentiy expect that we will jjjll' to reduce waste at the Bedsprea Feb. 29th Birthdays For Three L. J. HALL s. HA.RSTON There are three Fieldcresters who, by the calendar, are not getting old as fast as others. They are Wilma Laney Mus ^gee Spmning; Lenford Hall, Towel Weavmg; and Sanders Hairston Jr of the Towel Mill Carding Depan^ent.’ They were born on a February 29 and will observe their once-every-four years birthdays later this month. As far as is known, they are the onlv persons among Fieldcrest’s nearly 7 5J0 employees having such birthdays ’ WILMA LA>'E'' 1 THE MILL
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