130 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 



The Universal Winding Co., of Boston, Mass., placed in the 

 Museum as a loan their original gyroscope machine, which has served 

 as the basis for many other patents. By the system of winding 

 developed by this appliance the thread or yarn is laid on a support- 

 ing cylindrical or conical center in regular helical coils which reverse 

 with a sharp bend, each coil crossing over the preceding one, binding 

 it in place at each crossing. The coils form a compact self-support- 

 ing package and when unwound deliver the yarn without twisting or 

 tension. The same company also contributed a series of specimens 

 illustrating the various kinds of work done by their machines, includ- 

 ing the winding of such materials as raw, spun, and artificial silk, 

 fine and coarse, plain and mercerized cotton yarns, glazed twine, shoe 

 thread, binder twine, jute and cotton cords, asbestos yarn, tape, sisal 

 rope, japanned wire, etc. These materials are wound in packages 

 of various sizes and shapes and on tubes, cones, quills, bobbins, 

 cops, etc. 



For samples of wdiite and colored fancy cotton and cotton and 

 artificial silk dress goods, including matelasse, piques, ratines, and 

 other seasonable wash goods, the division is indebted to Lesher, 

 Whitman & Co., of New York; for 85 samples of plain and fancy 

 cotton wash dress goods, stock or yarn dyed, and woven in plain, 

 checked, plaid, and striped effects, to the Parkhill Manufacturing 

 Co., of Fitchburg, Mass. ; for specimens of old English hand-printed 

 chintzes, fabrics, and designs which are being revived and are now 

 in favor for interior decoration and upholstery, to Witcombe, Mc- 

 Geachin & Co., of New York; for examples of crinkled seersucker, 

 Jap crepe, Devonshire cloth, and zephyr madras woven from plain 

 and crepe cotton yarns, and of satin-finished cotton table damask, to 

 the Renfrew Manufacturing Co., of Adams, Mass. ; for specimens of 

 fancy printed velveteens, used for millinery trimmings and for 

 vestees, including examples of pigment printing in gold and silver 

 effects, to Messrs. Henry Kupfer & Co., of New York; for samples of 

 cotton and silk dress goods and linings, including cotton fabrics 

 finished to imitate those made of silk and of wool, to Messrs. A. G. 

 Hyde & Sons, of New York; for samples of imported and domestic 

 cotton dress goods woven from novelty and ratine yarns, which meet 

 the demands of the season for rough-surfaced fabrics, to Wood- 

 ward & Lothrop, of Washington. 



Messrs. William Liddell & Co., of New York, contributed speci- 

 mens of fine grass-bleached Irish linen, imbleached damask table- 

 cloth linen, fine linen damask tablecloths made in Belfast, and also 

 a series of flax products from the seed to the finished fabric. 



The donations of ribbons included warp-printed and satin-brocaded 

 ribbons, comprising some of the very finest material of this character 

 produced in the United States, from Messrs. Smith & Kaufmann, of 



