The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-10-10
POINTS ABOUT PINS.


The first automatic pin machine dates .
from, 1894 when an American tthey are
nearly ALWAYS Americans who do these
thinGs). named Wright, exhibited IN
London his machine, which, during the
revolution of q single wheel, produced
a Derfect niu. OF course in the long
interval between 1924 and 1879, many
improvements have been made on tins
machinery. and the one now IN use IS
that of Messrs. Taylor. which Is only
tvventv-fOur inches wide, thirty inches
long and eighteen inches hlgh-a Yerita-
ble Liliputian giant. y PIN dIYeSted OF
all sentiment, IS piece OF polished
brass wire timed over, with q point at
one end and a heaG at the other, ana is
nroduced thus: The brass wire IS fed
on to the machine by reel, and the
first Operation is to give it head, which
Is done by the wire being forced into a
. recess. and there meeting q steel punch
and die. The head on, the wire IS sud
denly nipped in the middle, according
. to the slides down a grOOYed incline IN
: TO q trav with a slit in the bottom.
. Tbrouob this slit the headed pin wire
isIor7nd to 90: but. as the head prevents
its entirely dropping through, it IS left
danoIfuo Though for an iuiiniteSimai
Deri0d onIvl over revolving roller OF
steel. garnished with number OF teeth
like files Before the pin has had
time to consider its situation, the END
touching the roller is pointed, smoOthed
and poIfshpd. and. at the same moment
that the oueratiOn Is finished. it IS push
ed through the slit by its successor, tol-
I0Vfur i'm the same track. and dro}S IN
to q frav clean as the new pin that It IS.
The subsequent processes are compare
tiveIv sIirht ones. The pins are bright
eDcd by boiling in weak beer, so as TO
thorOughlv purify the surface. and then
exposed to a solution Of grain tin, by
which they acquire a coating OF that
metal. and are finally shaken in bar
rel with bran or sawdust, which makes
them pretty and bright. Perhaps not
the least curious part of the performance
IS represented in the papering-Whlch
formerly cost both time and money when
dome Iy hand. Twelve sheets of paper
had to De folded in each sheet Of which
there were twenty double folds, and
into these were stuck carefully and Ia
Ioriuuslv IA rows of pins with thirty
nine i'm each row. in all. 5.Jl0. But by
the action of q very simple piece Of ma
chiaerv the paper, with the maker 5
name ready printed on it. is actually
Crimrod. and the pins stuck into It III
rows. much faster than these lines can
la written Perhags the lady reader.
of this article and pin consumers, as all
women are. VIII look with more rcspec.
on these uuconsidered tribes when they
think of the extraordinary ingenuity
that has been iayished upon them, ane
that small as they are, nearly quaryel
million pounds sterling are annually
spent upon them by purchasers. Mourn
ing pins arc not made OF brass at al
but of iron wire. and are ''hlucd' by
heating them IL d peculiar furnace call
ed ..muiie.' Then there are corEe
pins of three and half inches in length
hair pins. salty pins for dresses aUC
shawis. not to speak Of chronological
pins. without which the collector OF in
sects is utterly lost.-Eccbagqe.