The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1868-07-29

ENVELOPE MASUFAcTURERs.-E
first came into use about the year 1889, ant
for some time were cut and folded by hand
but US the process was too slow to supply
the Increasing demand, several ingenious ma
chimes were Invented to furnish them will
greater rapidity. These machines cut tn,
paper into shape with chisels, and the envel
oPes were then folded by hand with the com
mon folder. About three thousand were a.
many as one person could fold per day. IL
1915 another machine was Invented, by which
from forty-five TO sixty envelopes per minute
were produced, precisely alike, making from
tweuty-scven thousand to thirty thousand
per day
In 1851 another machine was constructed
for folding and cumming the paper for en-
velopes. In the United States, handmade
envelopes were first furnished to the trade by
Messrs, Bell x Gould, and Mr.. G. F. Nesbitt
of New York. Mr.. Gerard Sickles invented
a machine which was used by the former
house with good success. Mr.. Neskitt soon
secured another machine, more simple and
perfect than any then in use. he used in his
establishment about eight machines, the ca
pacity of each Of which was thirty thousand
envelopes per day.
There are now several large establishments
using machines of different capacities. OF
these, Lockwood 5 improved envelope ma
chine" is the only one which makes envelopes
by a continuous operation. Ii has four times
the capacity of any other machine now in
use, and requires fewer number of attend
ants. Each machine is capable of making
six sizes of envelopes, and produces an aver
age of from eighty to ninety thousand CON-
plete envelopes per day. The paper passes
into this machine from a continuous roll at
one end, and the envelopes come out gummed
and finished at the other end, at the rate OF
one hundred and seventy-hve TO two hundred
per minute.
These envelopes are as neat in appearance,
ard more evenly gummed than those made
partly by hand, and are therefore less liable
to open. There being fewer thicknesses OF
paper than in the old style, they offer more
even surface for the type-work, and hence
present neater appearance when printed
ppon-
The Lockwood Manufacturing Company OF
Philadelphia has one of the largest and most
complete establishments OF its class in the
United States. The buildings have a front
on Third and Levant streets, of forty-seven
feet, depth of one hundred and eighty-sey-
en- feet, aud are five stories in height. In the
different apartments there are about ninety
machines used in the VARIOUS processes, to
which power is communicated. by means of
over six hundred feet of shafting from a forty
horsepower engine. The exhaust steam is
used not only in warming the building, but
in boiling water and heating glue and paste.
Many of the machines are made of wood, and
some of them costly. In connection with
paper collars, envelopes and tags, there are
apartments appropriated to the manufacture
Of paper boxes, OF which about three thou
sand are made daily.
All the printing of labels, envelopes, cards,
etc, is done on the premises, and so exten-
siye is their business, that eleven of Gordon's
improved printing presses, and nearly two
hundred fonts of new type are employed in
this department. There is also a forge and a
machine-shop, where they build all their own
machinery, and make ali necessary repairs.
Eight maehinists are now at work building
envelope machinery, which will produce 100
600 daily, and which, by running day and
night, can be increased to ], 400 600 day
nearly treble that of any other house in the
country. At present, nesrly 5000 pounds of
paper are consumed daily in the establish
ment, about :, 500 of which, are used for en-
velopes alone. The company employ about
80 hands, the majority of whom are women.
Dining and dressing rooms are provided for
their accommodation Elevators are used as
8 means of communication between the diff
ferent stories of the building, and they are
so arranged, by means of dogs that spring
into rachets in the sides, that any serious ac-
cident from the breaking of wires is almost
impossible The collar and tag departments
contain S100, goo worth of machinery.