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Title: DOUGLAS FRASER JUTE MACHINERY - SLIVER ROLL FORMERS

Reference number: 0436

Date: 1932*

Director: [d. Ronald Jay]

Sponsor: Douglas Fraser and Sons Limited

Production company: Jay's Screen Service

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17.06 mins

Description: Comprehensive recording of the new patent sliver roll former in preparation of jute, flax, hemp and similar fibres, seen in this film in action at Hillbank Linen Works, Dundee. Designed by Douglas Fraser & Sons Ltd.

Credits: Douglas Fraser & Sons Ltd. Westburn Foundry, Arbroath, Scotland present

Shotlist: [Note: Film originally shotlisted at 24fps, below, the total run time at correct speed is 17.06 mins. See intertitle summary, below]

Credits (0.20); A unique invention which reduces labour, increases production, improves spinning, abolishes sliver cans - prior to introducing this novel mechanism, the material is processed on Fraser machinery (0.38); Bale opening jute bales are opened using a hatchet Jute softening fibres are passed through a mill Emulsion sprinkling apparatus. emulsion is sprinkled over rollers. c/u springs and weights which provide roller pressure. Driven by Friction Clutch through Worn Gear to Side Shafts. Shots of the drive mechanism. Removing and replacing the roller (3.53); Breaker carding. Girls feed jute into machine. Fraser patent. Sliver roll former. Formation of rolls of jute. Applied to full circular finisher card with side delivery. Applied to a single card with sliver band conveyor and back delivery (6.42) Roll feed on half circular finisher card. Single banded roll feed on drawing frame - two ends into one. Shots of the machinery in operation (9.02); Roll formers in operation. Demonstration to illustrate freedom of unwinding of roll (11.12); Roll former installation in Hillbank Works of Messrs. James Scott & Sons Ltd., Dundee. Messrs. Scott patent under-feed. Shots of the machinery (12.12); List of patent numbers for the Fraser Patent Sliver Roll Former in Britain Czecho-Slovakia India, etc. ... Are you one of their owners? (12.38); ecs (12.50)

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[Main intertitles recorded below]
(0.08) opening credits
A scientific advance in the preparation of Jute, Flax, Hemp and similar fibres
A unique invention which reduces labour, increases production, improves spinning and abolishes sliver cans
Prior to introducing this novel mechanism, the material is processed on Fraser machinery

Bale opening
Jute softening
Emulsion sprinkling apparatus
Pressure applied by spring below rollers
Driven by friction clutch through worm gear to side shafts
Instantaneous pressure release. 30 seconds to remove and replace roller
Breaker carding
The Fraser patent sliver roll former
Rolls can be ejected instantaneously by hand when required
Applied to full circular finisher card with side delivery
Applied to a single card with sliver band conveyor and back delivery
Roll feed on half circular finished card
Single-banked roll feed on drawing frame - two ends into one
Note the excellent pinning with superimposed slivers
Future possibilities
Showing freedom of unwinding
A pair of tireless robots
Roll former installation in Hillbank Works of Messrs. James Scott & Sons. Ltd, Dundee
Messrs. Scott’s Parent under-feed
The Fraser patent sliver roll former is made under the following patent numbers []
Over 500 in operation and in order in a dozen countries. Are you one of their owners?
The End (17.06)