Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-08-02

/ II was deeirabe that the edges should be trim
med SO they would wear well. II cut with q
straight knife they would be bevelled one way
As they are now cut, with circular knives running
piuohingly, they have an edge beyelled both
ways. The sheets Gre registered in the centre
anu the shrlnkage divided between the two
edges.
The groeobacks are printed four On sheet
One machine trims the margins, and another sep
arates them. This latter Is an ingenious contr
vance. It Sits them very fast, and lays them
with regularity in a box, each series Of numbers
separately The notcs are lrtered A, b, { and
| d, and the numbers on each are the same there.
fore IL is essential they should be kept carefully
aparl. Each oi the boxes that receives them
hos movable bottom.
When the cutting for the 6r-t day commences
this bottom is near the top Of the box but as the
oupog progresses and The number I tie bills in
creases, ratchet let's the bottom drop The thick
ne.s ofa bill, 50 the box is KEEP just so full all
the time 10 make the bills slide IL without doub-
| ling. II is intended that the cutting should be
criterion by which TO Judge of the genuine.
ness OF the bills, for every one must be the same
width and length. If the end Of a bill be placed
on the centre Of another, there will be found no
| difference in the width, an exactness which can
not be given Jy the hand.
The currency cutting machine is more compIi-
Gated, as it cuts both ways, and files them in
hurdles Of five dollars each, and | am not slre
out It binds AM seals them
WET PElNrING
Is The process now used 10 This establishment.
The @ettng is done by cloths instead Of by dip
'ilg OF sprinkling as IN newspaper printing. A
room is prepared specially for this with iron
weights for pressing. Elnh man has his particular
place assigned him, and all work in harmony and
win precision and celerty. Ordinary bills are
We and dried thr,e times during the printing
But this process will son be done away with, for
preparations are being made to substitute
DRY PBINTING
In IL stead, 10 when wln be- at l,ast two adyan,a.
ges, speed aud better work To do this some
eighty neavy hydraulic presses are being set
up, when what is called Dry printing, or printing
Oh dry paper, will for the first time successfully
be performed. There is 0 very pereeptbe differ
encs between the present way and the one TO be
substituted. Specimen sheets show clearer
impression and remarkable dstinctness Will
which the fanest water line il made to stand
boldly out. This process, which is entirely new,
has only been introduced after the most yehe
ment aud vifulent opposition. All sorts of stories
were circulated Of the blilding being crushed
down, Of there being an inpossibility To take with
machine more than seventy five mpro sio
per pay, aud hundred Others Of similar charac
ter bu' inviting men Of Judgment and skill in
machi1ey 20 iui the feasibility Of the plan, MIR.
Chase vent % and instruNed Mr. CLARK to con
tinue the experiments and perfect the system. The
frs tests were made with hand pumps. Machine
pumps are now being riggd, and the whole will
soon be in motion. There has been added to the
pressure Of the pumps regulator in the shape Of
weight Of cast metal Of brty-fve tons weight
which is intended to take up their lost power as
their force is exhausted, tlus keeping up near
.he same pressure al the tine,
THE CHECKS AND SAFEGUARDS
upon every one employed this department,
from the chief down to the lowest laborer, oper-
ate At every turn. Not even q blank sheet, much
less printed paper, IS passed from one hand to
another without being counted and reeeped for,
and unless there is coausion from one to another
through every process through which the paper
has to pass before 1t Is money, through the entire
range, here cannot be an over issue. The paper
il Issued from onf room, and is Teissued from
tina, room sixteen or eighteen times before it is
pu, IN circulation, being counted, charged and
receipted for Zach lime, and recounied, recharg-
ed and re-rec.ipted for through each process that
il passes aftr ieaving this room.
Five hundred persons are employed in note,
bord and earrency making 1t would seem as
il this number ought, III months time, turn
out money enough to carry on bali dozen such
wars as We have On hand But million Of dol
lars in notes of required denominations to do the
current business Of individuals, is an immense
pile o. paper, and when it comes to hundreds Of
millions, they grow into sma nay stacks as to
size. By the present process OF printing each
pressmau takes about five hundred impressions
per day. BY the hldraulic presses it is expect
ed that from three % five hundred impressions
pei hour will be taken,