The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-26
ABOUT TlNWARE
A Walk Through Factory where Basins
and Boilers are Made.
Advantages of Machinery in Making Tin
Boxes, Etc.
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Yon may have picked up a seamless
pie-tin, and wondered how it could be
made in that manner Here Is the ma
chine which does H. 1t is solid and
compact, and meant to exert great pres
sure. On what may be called the lower
Jaw OF the machine is flat iron bed: in
the center OF this is steel mold, or, as
you may call it, a steel pie-tin. The sheet
OF tin to be used is cut TO a certain size.
being an inch larger on all sides than the
pie-tin. 1t is laid on this steel mold, and,
as the machine works, a steel head is
pressed down into the mold and turns
the tin up on every side. 1t is taken out
an almost perfect pie-tin, only needing To
have the edges pressed down by another
machine to be ready for market While
we have been telling you how the one TN
was made the machine has turned out
hundred.
Pretty much all the salves YOU buy OF
the druggist are put up in tin boxes
Here Is one of the very few machines in
the United States which makes them.
The principal is the same a the other,
and as YOU realize the economy praetiSed
YOU can't help but feel astonished Ask
tinsmith to make YOU a box which
holds two ounces of salve, and he must
take his compass and mark out the top
and bottom, and cut them with his shears.
He must then cut his side pieces, bend
them in machine and use his soldering
iron. 1t will take a smart workman from
twenty minutes to a half an hour to
finish your box, and nomatter how handy
he Is, there Will be a certain roughness in
his work
Now watch this machine. 4 workman
takes strip OF tin cut to a certain width,
and feeds it in on the mould, the head
falls with a click, and one-half your box
drops 10 the floor The next blow drops
the other half, and the box is made. ex-
cept that the lower part is taken in hand
by another machine which mills the edges
and prevents the cover from slipping
down too far This machine turns out
$500 boxes per pay,with the least possible
waste in material Fifty tinsniths could
not do its work
You may have discovered that a wire
is run around the edge of the larger arti-
cles of tinware, such as pals, dish-pans,
and boilers. Where these articles are
made of sheet-metal there is no need of
it, but when stamped from tin, the wire
/ = IN, 70 fhaY,o 81 nd
stronger The tinsmith measures a piece
| from his coil of wire, files it off, and then
bends it into circle as well as he can by
his imperfect machinery. The only way
he can straighten a piece of wire is by
hammering it and using his eye as a
guide.
Here is the machine, which works fas-
ter than a hundred thinkers. The wire is
taken off reel Strengthened, cut in any
length, and bent in any shape desired fas-
ter than you can count, and no mistakes
are made.
In the making of cups, kerosene cans,
tea and coffee-pots, dippers, and few
other articles with handles, the soldering
iron must come into play;but basins, pans
cups, wash-dishes and pie-tins can be
stamped and made ready for market with
a rapidity to astonish YOU. All the ware
in which seams have to be closed with
solder, are sent to the basement when fin
ished. Down there is tank of hot water,
and every article is forced down into this
and held for a few seconds to detect any
leak which the soldering-iron may have
left behind it.