The Cecil Whig., 1874-05-09


the polisher. When each charge is polish
ed it is dumped into another receiver, and
from there it is fed into a little railroad
wagon with slide in the bottom, and the
wagon is passed back and forth on little
railroad at the head of the separating table
to separate the perfect from the imperfect
shot. At the foot of this separating table
there is a areceiver into which all the perfect
shot run. In the bottom of this receiver
there are four hoppers holding thirty
pounds of shot each. When opened by a
lever the shot falls into a chest of drawers
called a sitter, composed of twenty draw
ers, and when the power is applied this
sitter has rocking motion from front to
back quite violent, which sifts the shot.
When thoroughly sfted the drawers are
withdrawn and emptied into the respective
bins to be filled into bags of the various
sizes. The drawers are replaced and the
operation repeated, etc.
The bottom of each drawer-there being
twenty-on sizes and five drawers for each
size-is made of parchment of sheep, goat
or hog skin, prepared expressly for shot
manufacturers, and each size is punched
with a punching machine, every hole per-
feet and complete, agreeable to the stand
ard of the company. To illustrate, sup
pose they were dropping for No. 6 shot.
The No. dropping pan is set on the frame
on the middle floor, in the dropping there
will be a few No. 5, about ninety per cent
No. 6 and some few No. Z, and so on with
every size dropped for. In the sitting pro-
cess the sitter has twenty drawers, the first
set of drawers, four for No. 4, four for No.
), four for No. 6, four for No. and four
blanks. When the sitter is charged about
one hundred and twenty pounds immedi
ately drop into the first set of drawers No.
t. So soon as the power is applied in
rocking the shot, each size falls into its
respective drawer, then the top and bot
tom set Of drawers containing shot are put
aside until these numbers are being made.
In the above process all the shot on the
Nos 5, 6 and are finished and perfect
1t will be seen by a careful observer, that in
the shifting there must necessarily be in
every size made some half numbers of
shot, the pellets which pass through the
No. 5, and too large for regular No. G, and
so in every size made. So that in counting
twenty separate ounces of any given size
perhaps not six ounces would count out
exactly the same number of pellets, and
this difference in count, will of course, be
much greater in the smaller than in the
larger sizes.
The pig lead is placed on platform or
dish of the hoisting elevator in the center
of the tower and is hoisted up to the mid
load, hoist and unload about a ton at a
oraught, and nine minutes to the top floor
After the dropping of the day is finished,
the pig lead, wood and coal is hoisted each
afternoon to be ready for the next day
work. Steam, machinery and inclined
planes do all the work, except melting the
lead dropping the shot and filling, weigh
ing and sewing up the bags. This com
pany have all the latest improvements and
new machinery and they make the most
perfect shot made in the world. They
drop two or three sizes larger and three or
four sizes smaller than any other Their
present capacity is one thousand bags Of
shot per day, and with very small outlay
they can increase their product to two
thousand bags per day whenever the de-
mand requires it.
The scale of skies and pellets to the
ounce are the same standard with the ex-
ception of two or three sizes which this
company adopted twelve years since, and
which has given then manufacture such
universal satisfaction. The number of
pellets to the ounce from Tits up to
No. are more dense and heavier than any
other drop shot made, which is of the
greatest consequence in shooting, as the
shot being heavier consequently go more
direct, a greater distance, and with greater
force and power. From No. down to 13,
the reader will observe the extraordinary
difference in the number of pellets as COM
pared with Messrs. Thomas Otis, Leroy &
Co., of New York, whose shot they con-
slider the next best to their own made
Here again the company claim a great
advantage, because where these smaller
sizes are used, the birds being smaller and
nearer the gunner, the use of their shot
gives so many more pellets 10 the load that
there is 10 possibility of the birds escape,
if the gun is pointed correctly.
The american Sportsman.