A MILL THAT GOES BY ITSELF.

Dunstan Times, Issue 929, 6 February 1880, Page 3

A MILL THAT GOES BY ITSELF.

A run of live or sit no irs from Lon ion northward takes you to B. a* 1 ford in Yorkshire ; if y..u if* tiy the Midland Railway you travel tiirongh a stretch of the most picturesque scenery lu England on til t High Peake section oil the road. That was my route. Vly j mriiey ended at a smoky suburb tjf th-; great inanuiacturing town of Bradtor i. Low M sir is a bus/ district ;it made most of the cannon balls that wo hmled at Sebastopol during the Crimean War. To the local ironworks have been added several Yorkshire mills; and the latest supplement to the industries of the district is oue which promises to revolutionise the mechanical operations of tho world. !: had been reported on the other side of the Atlantic that Mr Banns, a Yorkshire inventor and assignor, had come as near to the attainment of perpetual motion as had yet been reached for real practical purposes. H lias constructed machinery which can be set going at the beginni ig of the week and will continue until .he end wi: bout being touche i, so long as the steamengine is kept at work ; the operations o( manufacturing proceed continuous!/ without tending ; the owner looks up hj s mill at night, and goes to n« I, while tho machines tnainra n their busy rev nations, cumin l , out miles of silk cor , fringes, trillion igs, and other things Whereat housed to env piny scores of hands, he now only nee Is a anker, a bookkeeper, an 1 a few cleanori and packers to put up tho produce of his automatic mill. “ But supposing ‘h ire u a bicakage of the v irn ?' I asked. “Tin machine pauses, mends the break, and goci on a ain,” was the answer. The next day I inspected tlie mill, i found in the prinoi pal departure it fifteen machines at worli quite u lattended. They were making silken I woollen cords of all kinds and it Humorous colors, combinations of silk an. woollen, and in many varieties of designs ■ arge bobbins charge I with material an: fee ling themselves from endless rolls, re volved r mod each o'hcr upon a large rotat ing disc of slower movement. It was a! most like an astronomical model of a sun with a planetary system in motion. Be tween them travelled yarn in course o working, and this was clothed in variou hues and designs by revolving silk. To old method of manufacture was to raak the cord in lengths longwise. Binus’ principle is rotary and endless, alums literally without beginning ; and withou end. “ Except for cleaning,” said the in ventor, standing by one of tho machines a lie spoke, “ this would go on for ever, un til it was worn out ; hut let us put it at week It will goon from Monday moruiu till Saturday night without touching ; it i self feeding, seif-taking up, self-acting. Ho broke a thread ; the machine raende tho breakage and went on again—‘ Tinsley’ Magazine.’