Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1886-08-19

cpesNing these out IN her fingers like
the sticks of fan, she dexterously laws
them in the grooves and passes the
filled slip 20 The girl Mt the left who
puts over il another slip wnich has lust
received a coating cf not glue from a
brush welded by a third. ANY two
slips tit together. and the united pairs
are laid in row and pressed together
IN an iron frame by q screw, and the
row of slips il lett 10 dry. The rough
ends OF the slips and the projecting
parts are next ground smooth against
wheel covered with sand.paper. and
are then ready for the most interesting
and characteristic process of all-that
OF separating and shaping.
The foreign maker sull makes each
pencil separately His glued slip is
one pencil, and he formerly shaped it
eS hand, but now does that by "A plane
driven back and forward by machin-
cry. Yet il is still one at time with
him, and after shaping his pencil he
has to smooth II with sandspaper. Not
so In the American factories. The
work cot separating and shaping them
IN done 10y the same operation of a
single machine. The slips are fed one
by one under revolving cutter. which
separates and rounds them on one side
by cutting away the superIluous wood.
As they come from under the cutter
they arc turned over and passed under
second one, which does the same
work on the other side, so that they
fall into a basket in n continuous
stream, six wide, OF finished pencils.
The familiar operation of planning is
essentially that of cutting with n
pocket-knife. The planning machine.
on the contrary, uses revolving knives,
which make succession of little
gouges in the wood. These gouges,
which would otherwise leave the sur
face very irregular, are made to leave
1t tolcrably smooth by following one
another so closely that the gouges be-
come one long gouge, or cut; but usual
~ the board is not smooth enough to
answer for nice work without further
finishing. Yet so perfect is the opera
ton of these revolving cutters that
they leave the surface not only true.
but so smooth that the finest sand
paper in ordinary use would scratch it.
The machine separates and shapes
probably fifty pencils'while the foreign
maker Is making one. and requires mo-
body to complete its work. AS the
streams of pencils fall six abreast they
are finished. in point of utility, and
are ready to be sharpened and put
to use.
Before they leave the room and sew
eral times afterward they are counted
by means of n counting board This
Is merely board on which are fastened
two strips of wood about four inches
apart, having in each strip l4l grooves.
Catching up handful OF pencils the
workman rubs them along the board
once and back, thus filling up the
grooves, the pencils lying IN them rs
pen lies in its rack on the inkstand.
and he has counted a gross of twelve
dozen without possibility of mistake.
and i'm five seconds time. BY SINH
lar device, the employment of a trav
having number of round impressions
OF the size OF coin, into which the
pieces are shaken, gold coins are some
time counted.
In Difference TO custom and the habit
of associating the desired blackness of
the leads with that of the wood the
natural beauty of the ccdaris concealed
IN the standard commercial grades bv
coioring. After being immersed i'm
dye the pencils go to the very curious
little vanishing machines. From a
little hopper they settle through side
wise. and are seized between two wheels.
which thrust them endwise. one at a
time, through hole i'm tube wet
with varniSh from above. Each pen
Gil pushed on by its follower i'm the
SingIc-tile movement. energies from
the tube and drops on ahoriZontal belt.
1t then moves slowly with the belt some
thirty feet drying as it goes. and
when the belt, reaching the pully, re-
leases IT, drops in a basket Ifyou place
n pencil in the mouth. pushing it well
back. and then, COMPRISING the lips
tightly on it, eNpcl the air, it will shoot
out with some force. In similar man
ner this comical little machine spits
out from itS cylinder stream of pen
ellis mt the rate of one hundred per
minute.
The other operations are Of minor
consequence, consisting of shaving n
little from the ends. sharpening GER
tain styles on a wheel stamping each
with its proper marking. and the
various manipulations i'm packing. The
patent package is a stroke of inventive
genius. The dozen pencils are grouped
'A'h ~ AAN ElOONts dIOUlllA All Oval
piece Of wood. The oval package is
more snowy than the round, and eight
pencils can be slipped out and replaced
! AT will without disturbing it, The
same mechanical skill runs all through
the work, all the pencils being exactly
uniform in size. length and finish, and
even the stamp falling Oh all in exact
~ the same relative position
Except the lcad-makers and the at
tendants on the shaping the
| operators are girls. the machines being
so automatic that neither strength nor
skilled labor is requisite The work i,
singularly clcaulv The shaping-ma-
chimes are covered by metallic hood
connecting with pipes. through which
all the shavings aud dust are sucked
down by a blower 10 the cngine-room.
whcr' they are used for fuel Thu,
the floors are kept free from litter.
The work is in no respect unhealthful.
and the factory is peculiar in being
pcrmeated by tho aromatic odor of the
red cedar. BTOokiyu Eagic.
BOOSTING HIGH.
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