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for some time upon the goods. This is now done by hand in the Crennille 

 carpet making ; but the machine under notice had proved itself capable of 

 printing perfectly at the rate of 4,000 yards per day. 



The full-sized machine weighs 30 tons, and is some 40 feet long and 12 

 high, and prints 6 colors. The width is such that the blocks or carved 

 " forms " may be moved bodily out to one side after each impression to be 

 supplied with a fresh coat of color. These blocks, when hi use, are in abso- 

 lute contact, and press side by side upon the carpet, but to afford sufficient 

 room for applying the color, and also to strengthen the framing, the forms are 

 moved out, three to one side and the alternate three to the other, so that the 

 coloring sieves are separated by a space much wider than is necessary to, 

 prevent mixing. Mr. C. considered the machine capable of producing very fine 

 dress goods and very rich paper hangings, ^uch as are now only imported. He 

 had counted on one piece of very expensive foreign goods 130 distinct colors. 

 The great point in the goods so produced is the perfect "register " or fitting 

 of each impression exactly to its place without any of the overlapping and 

 distortions generally observed. This is partly owing to a peculiar method of 

 holding and moving forward the fabric after each impression, which insures 

 the absence of any stretch or irregularity. Another point is the practicability 

 of printing paper hangings so far heating the table over which it moves that 

 the color first printed would be dry before reaching the last form, ready to 

 receive another color upon the first when necessary. It is in this way that 

 the veins are displayed in a darker tint upon the surface of green leaves. 



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SEAMLESS GAEMENTS. 



An invention has been patented, and is now in operation for the manu- 

 facture of seamless clothing by the Seamless Garment Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, at Winchendon, Mass. The process is as follows: The wool, as it 

 passes through the carding machine, is woven upon cylinders of peculiar 

 shape, the layers of wool crossing each other at different angles, the fibres 

 being stretched to then- utmost, making a close, well woven batt, which can 

 be formed into coat bodies ; others into sleeves, pantaloons, mittens, shoes, 

 leggings, and the like. Over these cylinders are drawn closely-fitting bags, or 

 coverings of cloth ; the whole is then immersed in water, whence they are 

 taken and dropped into metallic tubes heated by steam. A slight vibratory 

 motion is there given them, which felts the wool in a few minutes, leaving, 

 when coats are to be made, the ends of the sleeves and the arm holes of 

 the coat soft; they are then joined and firmly felted together, producing 

 a coat perfect in shape and even in texture. They are then fulled until they 

 become firm and solid. Most of those garments are dyed in the wool before 

 carding; those that are not are at this stage ready for the dyer. Next 

 they are dried on copper forms in the shape of men, heated by steam. 

 While upon these forms they go through a finishing process, which gives 

 them the appearance of the goods known as Beaver Cloth. They are now 

 ready for lining and trimming, which is done according to the taste or design 

 furnished. 



