Threading-up a spinning machine at a rayon yarn plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. After removing a freshly spun cake of yarn from the spinning bucket, production is resumed by using a stream of water from the cup in the operator's hand to...
Threading-up a spinning machine at a rayon yarn plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. After removing a freshly spun cake of yarn from the spinning bucket, production is resumed by using a stream of water from the cup in the operator's hand to...
Threading-up a spinning machine at a rayon yarn plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. After removing a freshly spun cake of yarn from the spinning bucket, production is resumed by using a stream of water from the cup in the operator's hand to...
This view was taken at the nylon plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Martinsville, Virginia. It shows the polymer and spinning building, where the operations of manufacturing nylon yarn begin.
This roving frame in the staple processing laboratory at DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant where Dacron polyester fiber is made, is spinning yarn from this fiber. The roving frame is the third step in spinning staple fiber into yarn and this...
Staple from man-made textile fibers rolling from a storage hopper into a baling press for shipment to mills which process it into spun yarns on the cotton, woolen, worsted, or other established spinning systems.
A bucket in a rayon spinning machine at plants of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. The cover has been removed to show the bucket, which revolves at high speed while the rayon thread builds up as a white cylindrical cake against the inside wall of the...
General view of a bucket spinning machine at a rayon plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. The white lines up the face of the machine are the rayon threads as they leave the chemical bath.
Text from image: "December 12, 1939, 12:50 P.M.; First nylon filaments (undrawn) of 30 denier 10 filament yarn to be made at the Seaford Nylon Plant. Spinning started approximately 12:50 P.M. December 12 on Position #2, Spinning Machine #1."
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