The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-10-10
How Clothes-Pins are Made.

Clothes pins now come principally
from Maine, where the requisite lumber
is abundant. A Bangor paper describes
the way they are made in one Of the
larger factories, at Vanceboro, in that
state.
The wood used is mainly white birch
and beech. The logs are cut and hauled
TO the shores of the lake or the streams
emptying into it, whence they are hoated
down to the mill. As fast as required
they are hauled into the mill By a wind
lass and chain worked by steam power,
and sawed into lengths Of l6 or p inches
the former 10 be made into pins, and
the latter into boards for the boxes re-
quired in packing. The 16-inch lengths
are next sawed into boards of the re-
quisite thickness By shiBgle machine,
then into strips of the proper size by a
gang fof u circular saws, and finally
into 5-ineh lengths BY gang of saws.
The logs have now been cut up into
blocks about five inches long and three
fourths of an inch square. Falling, as
they leave the saws, on an elevator belt,
they are carried into an upper story, and
returning TO the first floor are deposited
1 in troughs, whence they are fed 70 the
turning laths, Of which there are seve-
ral-eaeh being capable Of turning 60
pins minute. They are then passed
/ to the shooting machines, in which ape
culiar arrangement of knives inserted in
circular saw gives the slot the proper
| iange, after which they are automafi
eally carried by elevator belts to th.
/ driving bins on the second floor, wher'
theyare subjected to high temperature
generated BY steam pipes, until thor
oughly seasoned. There are several o
these bins, the largest Of which has
capacity Of 100 boxes, or 72, 900 pins, ans
the smaller enes 80 boxes.
i The pins are now ready for polishin.
and packing. The polishing Is accom-
plished by means Of perforated cylinder
, or drums, each capable Of holding sixt
bushels, in which the pins are places
and kept constantly revolving until the
become as smooth a. if polished by han
. with the finest sand paper. A few mir
, utes before this process is completed.
small amount Of talIow is thrown In tn
: drums with the pins, after which fe-
|. more revolutions give them a beautifF
. glossy appearance. These pOIishiB
I drums are suspended directly over tn
I packing counter on the first floor Of ia
{ mill, and being thus Immediately b
. meath the ceiling Of the floor above, 81
!, readily filed through scuttles from th
drying bins on the second, and as reae
, ily emptied on the counter below, ,whcE
!. the pins are sorted into first and secon
Z grades, and packed in boxes Of five gr0s
each The sorting and packing are don
By girls. Two hundred and fifty boxs
are packed IN day.
TIE market for clothes pins i not cor
fined to any special locality, but Il foun
all over the world. Ten thousand boxs
q have been shipped 70 Melbourne, Al
e tralia, within four months. Ten firm
7 in London carry a stock Of ten th0usan
e boxes each, and two firms ia Boslo
4 carry 4 like amount--Aastery.
le Auewspaper isnoE the cheapest thin
e in the world, and yet thousands Of ne
raise large families without ever sd
% scribine for one. How Is Il possible f
= 4 child to be anything bat an ignoraml
II il has nothing 10 read Three or fol
e cents will pay for q newspaper, an
every member 0f the family can read
q and derive benefit from it, and vet Il
father will come 70 town and pay
cents fora drink of Whiskey that do
3 him harm and his family no good. [
ducfing II drinks q year would sa
z money enough to pay for the nexspapI
which Wcald Be reIishec BY his wife. q
. Be Of great advantage ID al his ch 'ldrl
% and the man who WotIld refuse TO
that ought not 70 have a wife and chil
rsn--Exchange