The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-20
4 ERruMPH OF MECHANISM.

L
The Introduction of aoor-saving machinery
In all departments of Industry has been go
rapidly increasing during the past few years
that any establishment requiring mechanical
labor must be on the alert to discover and pos
sess itself OF such advantages In all practical
cases. II 1t would maintain reputation for
| enterprise, and keep abreast of the times and
In advance of competition. This is especially
true of newspapers, which, besides being the
chronicles of progress, are expected them
selves to be, In this age OF the telegraph and
the lightning press, the practical Illustrations
of the spirit of advancement. These consld-
eralions and the rapidly circula.
ton of TIE NEWS have compelled us to bring
to our aid, from lime to time, all OF the latest
and best machinery In the various mechsni-
cal departments of the paper that can be at
| tanned. The last of these additions to the me.
chanIcal resources of our publishing de-
partment hea been one of the new
patent newspaper folding machines, the
inyeDtion of New Hampshire me-
chanio named s. G. Fersaith, which have
been introduced In most of the large news
paper establishments of the North and West.
The process of folding copy of TIE NEWS in
proper shape for Il to be sent through the
postofice or laid on the breakfast table may
appear very trivial matter, but when It
comes to The folding of these copies by the
| thousand, and 1t Is remembered that the
whole work must be performed 10 very few
hours Of the eerly morning when most of the
world is fast asleep, 1t will be seen that the
folding is an important detail in the process
of publishing The NEWS it was at least
detail that involved the labor OF eight men
and boys, without much inter mission from
two to FIVE A. NJ, and which required no In
considerable space In our building. Now,
| however, with the aid of this Forsailh's Fold
er, the folding is easily accomplished by one
man, and the whole process is completed IN
much less time than was formerly required
| by the whole array of busy workers. The ma
chine Is model Of ingenuity and precision,
and it's movements have all the accuracy and
beauty OF an automaton. II occupies about one
halt the space of an ordinary bedstead, and Is
operated by a series Of cranks, levers, eccen-
which Is on one side OF the machine, quite
near the floor, and which is run by band
from the steam engine below. On the other
side stands the "feeder," or the man who at
tends the machine. and the supply Of papers
to be folded are piled on slightly inclined
plane at one end of the apparatus. The ma
chine being started, q framework OF au-
tomatlc fingers seizes the topmost sheet,
and gently pulls 1t q few feet forward. This
looks at hrst like an easy little journey for
the paper, but soon the centre of the printed
sheet comes just above q pair of swiftly-re-
vo!ving wooden rollers, when suddenly quiet
looking strip OF metal, which has been poised
exactly over the line of contact of these roll
ers, drops down upon the paper and strikes
1t down betwssn the rollers, which seize 1t,
and, with Their quick converslng revolutions,
pass 1t down between them and almost
out OF sight among the Internal mysteries
of the machine. This Is the frat fold
and it Is no sooner done than the paper Is in
duced along until egain It gets just over pair
OF rollers and under knife which Is on the
watch to cram 1t into their tight embrace.
Again 1t is cosxed along, and again 1t gets
doubled up by the dropping OF kRife and
squeezed by It's accomplices the rollers, this
process being repeated in all four times. The
folding of the paper is then completed, but
the machine is no slovenly workman, and 1t
has no sooner folded up the paper than it picks
1t up and adds 1t, with an emphatic dab, to the
neat pile Of already folded papers. The pro-
cess, of course, consumes less time than The
reading of even this brief description of 1t,
and the machine is capable Of folding and
packing away the papers at the rate of one o
second. The machine has given the most COM
plete satisfaction, and it has proved most
valuable adjunct to the machinery OF our pub
lishiug department. In addition to Its advan.
tages in the economy OF time and labor, It's
work Is done far better than 1t could ever be
by hand, the folding being more uniform and
the papers receiving finish and smoothness
by being compressed between the four pairs of
wooden rollers that adds greatly to the beauty
OF the paper and the clearness of The print.
It is the fret machine for folding papers that
any paper In this State has found the neces-
city OF employing, and Its introduction is only
mentioned as an earnest of our desire to
make THE NEWS In all respects and all de.
and the determination of outstrlpping compe-
tition and furnishing to the public the best
paper that can be produced In tile Slate oil
South Carolina.
HOTEL ARRTTALS-MARCH 10.