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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[MAKING UPHOLSTERY CLOTH. PART I]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: ‚Äú‚ÄòFrom raw materials to finished product‚Äô is a phrase applied to many activities of the Ford Motor Company.‚Äù ‚ÄúWeaving cloth is one of the world‚Äôs oldest industrial arts. Yet today its manufacture plays an important part in modern motor car construction.‚Äù ‚ÄúAs with iron, steel, glass, and other materials, so also is it true of the upholstery cloth used in closed Ford cars.‚Äù ‚ÄúThe story of Ford wool begins in pastoral scenes like this --‚Äù Herder driving flock of sheep through woods - sheep in pasture. ‚ÄúWith the Spring comes the shearing and the wool buyer‚Äôs opportunity to carefully select his purchase.‚Äù Buyer stopping car in farmyard, getting out - two workers shearing sheep using power clippers - farmer and wool buyer talking, looking at upholstery of car - views of sheep - sheep shearing in progress. ‚ÄúSelecting wool from the sheep‚Äôs back.‚Äù Examining fleece as it is removed. ‚ÄúExamining the sheared wool.‚Äù Buyer and farmer looking at fleece, talking - sheared sheep running. ‚ÄúSatisfied with the quality the buyer places an order.‚Äù Buyer and farmer shaking hands, buyer leaving. ‚ÄúHow each fleece is prepared for shipment.‚Äù Farmer placing fleece on table, folding sides and ends to form box, packing and tying fleece. ‚ÄúThe latest in sheep ‚Äòbobs.‚Äô‚Äù Sheared sheep in pen and pasture. ‚ÄúFarmer Jones loads his wool for shipment to Detroit.‚Äù Loading fleeces onto truck, from truck into railroad car. ‚ÄúThe wool arrives and is weighed.‚Äù Trailer load of fleeces on scale, being hauled by tractor, being unloaded. ‚ÄúSorting the fleeces into different grades.‚Äù Workers sorting fleeces into different piles. ‚ÄúThe first manufacturing operation -- the machine which opens and dusts the fleece.‚Äù Workers placing fleeces into machine. ‚ÄúThe bath where the wool is thoroughly washed with a solution of scouring liquor.‚Äù Raw wool going through washing machinery. ‚ÄúIt comes from the bath minus grease and dirt and weighing half what it did before.‚Äù Wet raw wool on conveyor from washing machinery. ‚ÄúHot air blowers dry the wool and send it along in the continuous manufacturing process.‚Äù Wool on conveyor, leaving dryer. ‚ÄúUnwashed and washed wool.‚Äù Dirty and clean wool side-by-side on table. ‚ÄúIt next come to the burr picker which removes the chaff, shives, dust, burrs, etc.‚Äù Wool going through machine. ‚ÄúThis machine picks out a lot of dirt -- just look.‚Äù Hands showing debris from machine. ‚ÄúPart of the wool is left in the natural color -- the rest is dyed brown, slate, and black. One of the dying machines.‚Äù Worker placing wool into machine - hands showing dyed wool. ‚ÄúIn this machine the different colored wools are blended, weighed, mixed and oiled, preparatory to manufacturing into cloth.‚Äù Different colored wool on conveyor, oil spraying from spigots. ‚ÄúThe carding machine. Proper blending, good carding is necessary to high quality.‚Äù Carding machinery in operation. ‚ÄúBristling cylinders rotate and different speeds, rapidly transferring the wool from one to the other.‚Äù Carding machinery in operation. ‚ÄúA close-up of the cylinders.‚Äù Several views - worker‚Äôs hands showing carded wool coming off of machine. Conveyors carry the material to the next carding machine laying it crosswise to give an even blend.‚Äù Wool on the conveyor. ‚ÄúBelts now take the material to the next machine in strips.‚Äù Carded wool being laid in folds by machinery - spinning machinery in operation. ‚ÄúHere by rubbing motion the fibers of the wool are loosely knitted together into ‚Äòroving‚Äô the basis of yarn.‚Äù Machinery in operation - hands displaying roving, pulling it apart. ‚ÄúAfter three complete carding operations the ‚Äòroving‚Äô is removed on spools.‚Äù Worker removing a large spool from machine. ‚ÄúThe spools are now placed on the mules. These machines make yarn by a drawing and twisting process.‚Äù Spinning machinery in operation - worker placing spool of roving into mule. ‚ÄúOnly a certain amount of the roving is fed on each outward movement of the mule which draws or stretches it after the feed has stopped.‚Äù Spool revolving. ‚ÄúThe bobbins come out rotating 3,300 times per minute.‚Äù Mule moving away from spool. [1927]]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Ford Motor Company]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[National Archives and Records Administration]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1927]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:references><![CDATA[http://catalog.archives.gov/id/93139]]></dcterms:references>
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