Object Description
Title Modern Cotton Mill Engineering
Creator W.B. Smith Whaley and Company
Date 1903
Source Ensor-Brown Collection, Richland
County Public Library
Subject Cotton manufacture.
Cotton textile
industry--Southern States.
Cotton textile
industry--South Carolina.
Description 132
p.: ill., 33 x 28 cm.
Digital Collection Modern Cotton Mill Engineering
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Columbia, South Carolina, 29201.
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Laurens County
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Oconee County
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Orangeburg County
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Spartanburg
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Union County
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SC Region Upstate
Midlands
Low Country
Language English
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Date Digital 2011-10
Metadata Cataloger Kelly Riddle
Scanner Technician Kelly Riddle
Bibliographic Citation W.B. Whaley and Company. Modern Cotton Mill
Engineering. Columbia, S.C.: State Company, 1903. Print.
Description
Title Warren
Mfg. Co., Warrenville, S.C.
Digital Collection Modern Cotton Mill Engineering
Contributing
Institution Richland
County Public Library
Identifier Cotton029
Bibliographic Citation W.B. Whaley and Company. Modern Cotton Mill
Engineering. Columbia, S.C.: State Company, 1903. Print.
Transcription WARREN MFG. CO., WARRENVILLE, S. C. Capital,
$500,000; Spindles, 33,000; Looms, 900. President, E. F. Verdery. In IHIS mill
is located in South Carolina, at the junction corporated 1896, THIS nljn js
located in South Carolina, at the junction of the- old Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad, and the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad, about twelve
miles from the cit) of ^^313, Ga. It is situated between the tracks of these
two railroads, on a beautiful clear stream 0f water. The mill is 127 foot
wide-. 264 feet lone. 24 bays of 1.. feet, 8 inches each, and is four 1 • 1 _ ^
i. -h t Mil. stories high, 1 7 leet each. Con necting with this is the engine-
room. pS l>\ 56, and the- boiler room, 36 l>v 69. The boiler room is
built ol sufficient size to accommodate a battery ol boilers lor a second mill
which tt is proposed to build in the future. The power lor operating this mill
is furnished l>v a 1,000 horse power cross-corn pound condensing engine. The
condenser is ol the- Spv ro-jet type, and operates under a head ol 10 feet. The
power is distributed to the head shafting located in belt way through i'+ inch
ropes ■ ■ > L-. WARRI x ■ [PAN> 1-1 11 ;« heated bv the Sturtevant system, and is equipped throughout
with air moist,-nine apparatus, and I Jit* 171111 1 II* »l
L.11 I' '11 I'll tected from fire by sprinkler and hydrant systems. Ihe
sprinklers are supplied bv a to.ooo-gallon tank ,. , ,. lT1, ,.,,,,.rs The
machine shop and lighting generators are driven from a jack shall located jn
ocateel "1 " " • 1 • 1 • 1 1 -n nt of engine room. This shaft is
driven from the mam engine when the mill is m operation, and another times bv a
small high speed engine driving through friction clutch. This mill commenced
operations in the summer ol 1898, and has been successfullj run ever since.
List of Machinery I fsed. ,,,., ,. 11. Corliss Boilers and Engine. Knowles Fire
Pump. Knowles Spyro-jel Condenser. Sturtevant Heating. [ones & Laughlin's
Shafting. "\ T. Atherton Lappers. Pettee Cards and Drawing, with Metallic
Rolls on Drawing. VVoonsocket Roving. Fales & fenks Spinning. Easton &
Burnham Spoolers. I traper Warpers. Cohoes Slashers. I traper Rooms. Curtis
& Marbh' Cloth Room Machine.
The Eclipse corliss engine group classic engineering