Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-01-22
HOW PENS ARE MAJ.
The Process Explained In
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The first steel pen was mad
Engiishman named Wise. i - 2 a
indrical and adjusted to 4 bon ! ss Cyl
pocket uso. but 1t was too ox. ease ios
well as clumsy to come into 0an sslss y
A birmingham man, named Msss usA
had been experimenting To INV Who
Wise's invention. had in hs s,., o.
young man named elliott Ahop m0 !
time Meyer had nearly comp,essSs s, sas
vention, his daughter marr,ss n ms ~
and told him her fathers sso - ullo
consequence elliott anticipats Ss !, y
father-in-law. and started ! ,soss ai
making the very kind Of pens ~ %
man had spent years in deyisino 'l' 'a
How are the pens madep a..
the finest steel six feet long, two -,
hall feet wide and one-sixteenth ),
inch thick, Is cut into strips each ! Y
enough to make two pens. Thasa .. Ivy
are annealed by placing them !, ,s ~
with clayed lids and leaving thsn - Oa
night in the 'muflier,n or oven ~ v,a
y kept at an intense heat Wbe, ' .a
are cooled they are secured viii y.
to remove the scales and brighten th..
They are then rolled to the ea,,s s.' u |
sired and taken to the cutting sbon,
DO transformed into blanks By ha,s
presses. Thence they 90 to the n,s .s
ing shop, where hand-press make,,s
Sits in the sides. After being cles.a |
in sawdust to remove the grease ~.
go to the hardening shop and sDena
second warm night in pots in thu ava,
Next comes the stamping room vhs..
the firm name and trade mark are \. |
ceived.
Thus far they have been merely A.,
blanks. Now comes the transio,m.
ton scene. In the raising sbon ,bs,
are given the semi-circular forms m,
makes them pens. After bris l.,
generation In the oven, they are Given
an oil bath, shaken in a reyolvir,
colander till the drippings are removal
and saved, and then wiped dry in drum,
with a sawdust towel. In the temDer
ing shop hundred gross are put h Il
single drum and turned slowly oye,
charcoal fire, man with along-handd
ladle watching the changing colon
scooping them up at the proper instant
and spreading them on cooling Dan
/ In the securing shops they again en-
l counter sawdust in a drum; in TIA
l Sitting shop hand-press makes as
9 Sits in the points; in the grinding she,
3 they are treated to either straight al
cross grinding, the latter being consider
!. ed preferable. The back Of the zen
n shows readily to which process It ha|
8 been subjected.
|. The longest stay is in the polishil;I
$ shop-two days-the time being speut|
: In the most intimate intercourse with
t the rubbish known as ''pot" and in Re
d volving drums. They emerge polished
g and with the sharp corners worn os
r the points. Then another trip is mss|
If to the tempering room, where they an
n given a blue, light, dark straw, Or sly
y other desirable color. Into thin Tg|
It nish of alcohol and shellac they Hs
'r plunged, and spread on perforated
et and heated iron plate to dry, and Themes
10 to the looking-over room, where girls
o inspect each pen, rejecting al deectiys
ID ones. They are very particular to thl'
4 part of the process, as bad pen, llkea
10 bad egg, will spoil the reputation oths
l. entire box. The final processes an
A. counting in gross lots and boxing vhel
~ the product is ready for the trade and
g after going through all these manipula
O. tiors the completed pens ~ sold
y, dealers for about third oil cen
ct apiece.
h Soon after steel pens became popua
in inventors went to work to olscC'a
es something better. Glass, horn u'
It. toise-shell and other substances "r'
1g tried, and the numerous experlmel
is eliminated in the gold pen with doao
g, diamond points, first made in lnglAl
ne by Isaac Hawkins, an American rs''
ny inc abroad. Subsequent the same n'
by found that iridium was about as Wv
lie. as the diamond, and it Is now useu
in most exclusively. 1t Is found m% !,
ne nection with gold-bearing qusru II
en- mines of California and Russia Ul'
is 1874 gold pens were split with ael ~
it and rounded up with mallet anu WV
I'm The price was then fyem five doldn !,
in ten dollars a pen. After John h = !,
Try invented machinery that wo'la ~ !
-er greater portion of the work the r
ny declined RAPIDLY, and although m'.. !.
he the work is still done by hand ag'
las gold pen can be purchased Da'' r
vel from one dollar to two eolAnS
me best gold pens are made in tins NJ co., o.,
of try, and the expectation is Qul'S A'
ind | GoIIe7a DdUS.