Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-09-18
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can find exactly what he wishes to
see, for everything almost which the
world is now using is there. The Wis
itor who has no interest in machinery
except curiosity will be interested in
some of the tremendously great ma
chimes that are exhibited. To such
we will mention a few machines that
are noted on account of their imme nse
SIZE The enormous trip hammer in
the Bethlehem Iron Co.'s exhibit, tho
itself dummy, stands in the trans
ept of the building and it's two i'm
mense legs open like an archway thro'
which stream of people are con-
stantly passing, perhaps unaware
that they are passing under and thro'
one of the largest steam hammers in
the world. The hammer itself, which
is hoisted fifty feet or more, weighs
25O, 900 pounds. 1t is used in forging
the seventeen-inch armor plates
which that company have been lately
making for some of the new ships of
the navy. The height of this great
machine is 81 feet. While speaking
of the Bethlehem Co.'s exhibit we
mention hollow steel shaft, hydraul-
ic forged that is 81 feet long and 20
inches in diameter; this company
45 feet long and 80 inches in dame
ter-the biggest piece of forging in
the world, and the company show an
ingot of steel weighing 113 lbs; they
show a ventilator arrangement for
the steamer Puritan, which was form
ed out of nickel steel without seam.
They show 45-ton army gun made Of
steel which uses $50 pound projec-
tile, and propels the huge thing with
1000 feet per second velocity, pene-
trating % inches of iron. One of the
49, ton steel They have all sorts Of
massive nickel-steel plate armor ma
terial which has been subjected to the
most powerful tests by the best steel
rifle guns. Massive peices of plates,
forgings, cranks for ocean steamers,
etc., show what is being done in the
line of great things in the working
of iron and steel. If we go to the far
Their end of the building, we shall see
some of the greatest machines in
these lines that have ever been built.
An immense machine, known as iron
shears, is large enough to cut and trim
the plates which are used in the con-
struction of locomotive boilers; an
other machine for punching or per-
forating iron and boiler plates will
punch the whole side of long boiler
plate at one motion, the holes being
exactly in line, an equal distance apart
and of uniform size. These great ma
chimes, with other apparatus of like
useful character, make boiler making
child's play compared with what it
formerly was. In this section is an
immense iron planer. It's weight is
enormous and it's capacity is equally
eight or ten inches in thickness, II
feet wide and over 80 feet in length.
The other parts of the machine are
equally large accordingly. To an or
binary man these dimensions convey
no idea of the gre atness, capacity and
expense of machines of these dimen
sions machipist will understand
the matter better.
In this locality in the building may
be found great number and variety
of what are known as iron and ma
chinists' tools. Everything almost
can be seen there. In machines for
working wood there is remarkable
showing. Machines for saving, turn
ing, molding, planning, carving, and
machines for making wood statuary,
either in single pieces or in groups.
Machines for granting wood. The
wood enters the machine in plain
form and comes out apparently as
piece of fine oak, walnut or cherry
as the thing is desired. Then there
are machines for geometricat mold
ing, making furniture, etc.
In one section Of the building is
large space devoted to milling ma
chinery. The different processes of
grinding and rolling grain with bolt
ing and barreling apparatus are
shown. Near by is a simple little ma
chine that will measure, weigh and
put up in packages coffee or other
weighing or measuring it
with mathematical accuracy. We be-
lieve this was the invention of a Yer
monter, Mr.. Brown of Woodbury..
A great and very important section |
is devoted to the show of fabric ma
chinery. The processes are shown of |
cotton and WOODEN goods from
the raw material to the beautiful fin
Of