The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-14
The Mechanics, Exhibition.

The Mechanics Exhibition.
We have been deeply interested in the every
day manifestations of public regard for the
display made for them by our mechanics and
manufacturers. Daily and nightly the rooms
are thronged with visitors. The different de-
partments are searched by some for novelties,
to gratifyI mere curosity--for more oddities.
The major portion Of visitors examine, to see
articles best adapted for given usesj they
patiently observe and compare. Inventors
and manufacturers are benefited by competi-
tion. Zach observes the strong points in his
neishbor's specimens, and learns to correct his
own deficiencies. In this regard, the emula-
tion and rivalry does all parties good. Having
given hasty glance about the rooms, We give
few more specific notices.
HoNINy MILL.
GowDY & WELsH's Upright liominy Mill,
here on exhibition, is in practical uae in the
city, and VIC havc the testimony of those who
manufacture with these machines, that they
obtain an advanced price for the hominy thus
made. ThOSe who see the working Of tho mil!
recognize remarkable advantage in the pOr-
fection of this work. Tho corn Is worked dry;
and this machine, being made at but light
cost, will cause the more diiiused use Of this
cheap and desirable food. The rights for use,
in this and neighboriug Western States, arc for
sale by RICHARDSON, WRIGHT & HOLMAN,
Spring gfeld-that choice place for manufacture
Of agricultural instruments.
BRAMBLR's SUSPENDED SPRING BED.
It is claimed for this new style article of
furniture that its simplicity, comfort and
graceful appearance is such as 10 recommend
it for household elegance and luxurious com
fort, and, when sickness damps tho brow"
the most comfortable and convenient for the
sick and invalid. It has no feet, but is srs-
pended on springs, so that no jar on the floor,
or even Of the bed, can ncommode the per.
sonlying omit. 1t has gentle Springing and
swaying motion, horizontal and perpendicu-
lar, not to be attained by any other contriv-
ance. The head and foot boards can be re-.
moved at will for the convenience of putting
on or removing q sick person. Mr.. H. +.
ROBINS, of Madison, Indiana, manufactures
this novel bedstead. Mr.. II. McCuLLouGu is
agent at the Fair.
CARTER's FIJI TgRING HYDRANT.
AS good clean water is a blessing, it be-
comes those building houses to inquire if
Carter's Filtering Dydrant which cleans
and filters itself, is not cheaper than thoss in
common use. See samples manufactured by
j. B. & T. GIBSON, Of this city.
NEWSPAPER ADDREssER.
There has been % Exhibition partially ma
tured machine, by which great economy Of ex
pcnso and time isexpected to result ftora its u5o
ia mailing large circulation Of newspapers.
esay partially matured, for although the de-
sign has great merit, II is not Completed
there being as yet no linking attachment. The
author is torVent, hopeful, enthusiastic rna =
chinist-not prnter--who, after considerable
reflection and some conference with practical
men, dashed eff his present design, obtaining
his patent only last month. 1t is q machine
which We con perhaps but incficiently describe,
from the study Of but % half-hour. Imagiuo
ap endless metallic belt Of brass-say six inches
wide and twonty four feet two inches In
length-revolving at a hight even with tho
waist of working boy, over two whees, ono
at each end. This belt, in revolving, brings OH
level, consecuyey, four divisions in which
are placed, as the belt revolvcs, type frames
containing type to print twenty papers with
addresses. -Four divisions, twenty papers to Il
division, make eighty papers to one revolution
of the belt. Even by slow hand d-power, as We
observed, the belt made three revolutions in
ono minute thus addressing two hundred and
forty papers each minute-eq ualling fourteen
thousand four hundred per hour. Granli1gtcu
thousand to be the result, the sansuino prcpric
tor concludes that the cost of one man and four
boys tending tho machine the brief period
needed will be but one-eghth of the cost now
paid to persons writing addresses, deemed to To
worth 81 per thousand.
The process of feeding the papers in The
machine may be thus described: two boy,
stand by the machine with the edition Of the
paper folded up ready for wrapping at hand,
and between equal compartments on the rs
volving belt are laid the folded papers, cx
tendingover the type-framsS laid longtudinally
on the revolving belt; as each paper passes
between two friction rollers above and the
other below the belt-the paper is pressed down
upon the type frame, imprinting across tho
middle Of the paper the desired address. Each
type frame is, say two and half inches wido
by one inch thick, containing twenty separate
grooves, in which, by two screws, the name
and place of residence in small-cap types is ad-
Juated. When needed they can be removed at
will, and others substituted. For club papers
no wrappers are needed, and the paper is bv
this process egibly addressed at a uniform,
part Of the paper; 80 that when postmaster
takes them from his box, all are in order,
he can read their address without difficulty,
The inventor, Mr.. GEORGE HUTCHINSON, has
taken his machine from the city, having
yesterday left for his residence in Allegheny
City, VIII hc can be addressed by letter.
Another model has been placed in the Fair
OF which we may speak hereofter.