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...
Racks of rayon yarn in cakes pass into huge ovens to dry in temperatures considerably above 100 degrees F., following washing and de-sulfuring plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company.
Operator lacing skeins of rayon at the Richmond, Virginia plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. The lacing is necessary to retain the diagonal lay of the thread and to make it possible for the user to unwind the thread without snarling.
Winding rayon yarn into cones at plants of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company. Each operator has been trained to tie the thread with a particular kind of knot, called waver's knot, and to place all knots on the face of the cone.
Lacing or tying together skeins of Acele acetate rayon as it comes from the reeling machine at the Waynesboro, Virginia plant of E.I. de Pont Nemours & Company
Physical testing of Acele acetate rayon to determine denier, or weight, as conducted at the Waynesboro, Virginia plant of E.I. de Pont Nemours & Company.
Physical testing of Acele acetate rayon to determine denier, or weight, as conducted at the Waynesboro, Virginia plant of E.I. de Pont Nemours & Company.
Careful inspection is given to every cone of yarn before shipment from the rayon plants of E.I. de Pont Nemours & Company. Skilled in dining imperfections, their eyes trained to find trouble with the least loss of time and effort, a corps of...
Acetate, washed free of acids, being loaded for transportation to the dyers preparatory to becoming Acele acetate rayon at the Waynesboro, Virginia plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company
