Example: The Beeches, 16 Ballyclosh Lane,
Cullybackey, County Antrim BT43 5PG, Northern Ireland UK
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Ballyclosh census 1901:
Samuel ELDER, Presb. Farmer, Widower, wife Elizabeth
son Samuel - Occupation: Cotton Beetler
Google for "Beetling" and "Beetling machine"
found:
http://www.scotsfamily.com/occupations.htm
Beetler =
Cloth mill worker operating a beetling machine to emboss fabric
Beetling Machine = " A machine for
"finishing" linen or cotton cloth by hammering it;
for this purpose heavy wooden blocks are used, which are raised
in succession
and permitted to fall by their own weight. Sometimes called "mangling-machine."
The object is to render the surface of the cloth of an even and
uniform thickness."
and
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Finishing
"Beetling is a process by which a peculiar linen-like
appearance and a leathery feel or
handle are imparted to cotton fabrics, the process being also employed
for improving
the appearance of linen goods. For the best class of beetle finish,
the pieces are first
impregnated with sago starch and the other necessary ingredients
(softening, &c.) and are dried on cylinders.
They are then damped on a water mangle, and beamed on to the heavy
iron bowl of the beetling machine.
"A beetling machine of the kind, with four sets of
"fallers," is shown in fig. 3.
The fallers are made of beech wood, are about 8 ft. long, 51 in.
deep and 4 in. wide,
and are kept in their vertical position by two pairs of guide rails.
Each faller is provided with a tappet or wooden peg driven in at
one side,
which engages with the teeth or "wipers" of the revolving shaft
in the front of the machine.
The effect of this mechanism is to lift the faller a distance of
about 13 in. and t
hen let it drop on to the cloth wound on the beam. This lifting
and dropping of the fallers on to the beam
takes place in rhythmical and rapid succession. To ensure even treatment
the beam turns slowly round
and also has a to-and-fro movement imparted to it. The treatment
may last, according to the finish
which it is desired to obtain, from one to sixty hours.
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FIG. 3. - Beetling Machine (Edmeston & Sons).
"Beetling was originally used for linen
goods, but to-day is almost entirely applied to cotton for the
production of so-called linenettes. Hot-pressing is used to a limited
extent in order to obtain a soft finish on cotton goods,
but as this operation is more used for wool, it will be described
below...."
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