Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-11-01
HOW PINS ARE MADE.
From rus BsSkET TO THE MiR-
kErIN v4Ri0US VANS


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N'r''s'n"0"'' 70 '"e "l''N" ""'''''
rntM1NGHAN, Conn, Oct 2S-We have
=. -. arranged our factory pins in their
regular salable order in the great
Howe pin factory, heads and points
in even rows and every one las clean
ss new pn" We left them psll
mell il a basket and oily. Thus thes
drvppeI from the machine: finished in
form, hut yellow as brass or dark a. Bss-
semer steel The work is far from lone, al.
though we have cut up the wire, and have
hammer headed and file pointed each tiny
length. We must wash and dry them
We must whiten many and blacken a few,
10 acummcda the requirements of the
art o dressing That We shall ever demand
alH paper, of purple pins aud green pins
red pins and mottlei pins or violet aad
sky blu, appears improbable; pin is so
small n mntter.
The pins are taken from tho pin-mak ing
room 10 the whitening rooms. where they
are plac u in "tumbling barrels" to clear
them u the oil, After this operation they
are pu into either copper kettles or iron
pan Into tho copper kettles are placed
the bra pins, a battery bcin, form VI BY
zinc IN contsc with the copper OF the
kettle but tho stsel pins ara whitened in
the iron yans. Ger ain chemicals aro used
so pr"iuCs deposit Of tin upon tho pins.
Tin is the outside Of our pins whether the
pms h' seal or brass. The BesSsmer ste il
s late Introduction substituted tor iron,
ana tDe current name in the factory i. still
sr'n Whitensi or olacksnei by these
che mical and galvanic Influences, the pins
now so into soaking tubs" in which there
- specified qusntity Of soft soap. The
soaking Tub now rsvolves as do the most OF
The vessels IN thes processes, AMI in a few
minutes there is such foaming lather that
you "ond not auess that the glittering
bubbles contained fine metallic points and
sol'd heads.
"ben pins come out OF the whitening
ppc'S lhey are, as to gloss, in shop Ian
guage, lead" The soap-suts in the revo-
iusion both cleans them and makes them
shine Ike silver, and then none but an ex,
pert can tell whether pin he steel or
praS VI brass are made the better classes
o. pms
After definite time Of sulsy revolution,
the pms ara "ashei in the pure fluid of the
Nau atuck, alias clear water, and then
again they go into ".umbllns barrels,' in
lch they are dried.
No" they are place in carry ing tubs
and are taken up TO the third story If the
factory, where We enter the sticking de
partment' This relates to the form in
which We buy our pins In this depart
meu' only W, fud the womanly hands.
which does all th' sticking. wrapping, roll.
ing, inspecting and boxing
Pell-mell the finished pins are dumped
upon b" apron, from which they drop
in.o a revolving cylinder in which Is a
'serIe5 OF narrow shelves, which catch the
pins and deposit them upon an inclinei
table, down which they run into a grooved
-'end4es, chain who has divisions, IA
CERTAIN number OF grooves t. a row Of pins,
The rap, r is already fed on" from roll
and i, In place to be struck by the pius. As
the endless chain i tiled up with ulns il
pass . ab,v, two erin pin. jaws" A. the
jaws" come together and crimp the paper
"tunger" shUves the pin, through the
crimp after which tho jaw" opens, lib r.
AlD- the paper, Whlch pasghs down and is
ready tor It's next row of pins to be plac.d
upon it in ike manner; and so Continuously.
until the long. uncut roll of pauer ia ALI
filed A. fast as il is filled it falls into
boxes which are under the sticking ma.
chine
From these loxss this paper thus loaded
Is taken to the cutting bench" where
girl cu's it at the prescrih.sd length The
common length holds $50 pins, four teen
rows OF twenty pins each. the cutting girl
at the same time examines whe ether every
row is fllei
II Sc papers of pins not yet folded are
now taken to the tables OF the ''inspe ctor."
She is 10 know, and she knows at = glance,
whether one OF these 2s) pins be too short,
have an lmpsr feet point or one-sided
bead.
II IN the making of pin that part Of the
machine called the hea Ter be the one
thousandth parton an inch out OF the center
1t will cause the pm head to be more or less
one 1dei; that Is, the PIN top instead Of
being perfectly round, Is elongated. And
the e.ongation may lie irregular, which Is
bad male "ors. When the perfect pin is
"hirled IN the hand you see no movement
OF she pan head AT the other end the point