Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-12-05

mouse lhere large door is lliled ant
the car with its load is rolled in leay-
ing it to be dried by exhaus
steam. He will enter the mill and see
another large door upon the opposite
side of the dry house from which the
car of green lumber entered, open and
car of dried lumber rolled into the
mill here the boards are cut into the
proper lengths by double cut off saw,
and then are cut into square sticks.
These are run through planer that
planes all sides at once, then through a
''groover' and then TO a tenoring ma
chine, from which they are taken in
racks TO the elevator and are lifted by
that to the second story; here the
sticks are taken to the glue benches
where they are quickly made into
frames for screens, these are taken to
beveling machine that cuts bevel
upon two sides, top and bottom so as
to have them fit closely TO the window
stool and to the bottom of the sash,
This beveling machine is one of their
numerous inventions and does its
work quickly and better than do the
saws that are usually used. The
frames are next polished upon spec
ial machine and then are taken to an
oil room 2Sx30, lined with galvanized
iron and here they are dipped into
large tanks containing a special prepa-
ration, discovered by the boys, this
gives the frames neat oil finish or by
the addition of color, stains them.
From the oil room they are taken to
the tackers who with magnetized ham
mers take tacks from trays that have
glass bottoms, upon which the tacks
are spread, and quickly tack the wire
cloth to the frames which are next ta-
ken TO compressor and compressed
into compact crates containing dozen
frames each. The wire cloth comes
in large rolls and is first cut by large
shears into squares that are taken TO a
selvage machine, the boys invention,
that binds the cut edges so that they
will not mravel. This machine viii
do in two hours work that requires a
day in other mills. Tin strips 3-4 of
an inch wide are folded and rolled up
on the edges. This timed edge takes
the place of the heavy wooden bar that
usually is found in the center of adj
Unstable screens. The tin does not
obstruct the view and it keeps the
wire cloth in place. Four styles of
screens are manufactured and each of
these have especial merits of their own
that have so commended themselves to
the trade as to create demand that
this mill with its capacity of turning
out from POO to 800 dozen daily, can
but little more than supply. An order
for 500 dozen was received from
Philadelphia house a few days ago and
other large orders have recently been
received from southern cities.
"Novelty" sleds of the long clipper
pattern, the iron shoes of which are at
tached to the runners without screws
or nails, are another of the specialties
that this firm manufactures for which
they have large sale.
In one of the rooms of the mill is
machine for manufacturing Burt's pat
ent candy, lard, butter tub and tobac-
co pail fasteners. The fasteners are
made of malleable wire and can be
quickly driven into any wooden tub or
pail fastening on the cover more Sc
curely than with straps or the other
ungainly and unhandy makeshifts that
have been in vogue. The machine
takes the wire from a reel and makes
the fasteners at the rate of 75 per min
ute.
The I'D. G." Suspender Buckle that
will not tear your shirt and is quickly
adjusted is a recent invention of the
boys and is made of wire as are the
fasteners named above.
The factory is the largest and finest
used for manufacturing screens in the
world and in its construction Messrs. !
Niebaum and Burt superintended and
aided. In setting the boiler of the At
las automatic engine that drives their
and in the building of the
big chimney they took part. Its steam
heating apparatus is of the best and
uses either exhaust or direct steam.
The shafting and all the machinery is
so well placed that not a hot box has
been found vet. Galvanized iron
pipes take all dust and shavings direct
y to the front of the boiler, on ex-
iaust for furnishing the motive power.
There is hardly a machine they use
hat the BOYS have not invented some
for and many of the ma
hines were invented by them. Twen-
y-two men are employed and they are
Mostly young men. Young men are {
for the reason that they are
lot welded to any set of ideas but are
eady to take new ideas. Mr.. Me
aum was born in Sitka, Alaska and
aa hoa,, a sfudant and traveller Hai