The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-18
HOTEL AND CORRIDOR.


DO you know" said D. V. Perkins,
a California fruit man in the Temple
ton last evening, that within the past
six months a San Francisco man has
made an invention which will, in time,
revolutionize the whole system of can
making?
You have heard of Hume Brothers,
the old salmon Gamers, of San Fran
cisco? Well the inventor is Robert
Hume, of that firm and his simple
device means a great deal for fruit
Gamers. AS 1 understand it, he has
been working on the machine for four
years now and after working, study
ing, experimenting and improving, ad-
ding and devising he has so perfected
the apparatus and appliances, that he
can manufacture more tin cans OF any
desired kind, size or shape, at much
smaller expense and in shorter time
than the best equipped factory can turn
out by the aid of the latest and best
improved machinery with twenty times
the number of hands
''All kinds of Gamers, the Fruit
Growers association = of which [
am a member = and similar Or
CARNATIONS who have seen the
machine operate are surprised at
what it can do and how we'll it does it.
Just one factory with six or seven ma
chimes will be able to supply the whole
coast, the saving III labor and time be-
ing something marvellous.
"a youngster of either sex just
tall enough to reach a machine
can run it with perfect ease.
The tin being cut so as not
to waste bit of metal, all that a boy
has to do is to feed it at the receptacle
at one end and the machine turns out
any sized can wished at the rate OF
sixty a minute, and 49, 400 cans a day
can be turned out at this rate and
every one is perfect.
1.-The number of machines may be
multiplied according to the wants Of
! factory, and as they are quite small
large factory may contain any num-
Der of them, with a 12-year-old feeder
at each.
Mr.. Hume's first machine turned out
LOCO, 900 in a month l think. Another
great feature is the fact that ten ma
chimes running at full speed will not
make half the noise of a solitary tinker
| fattening the seam of can. All that
is necessary to change the shape of the
| can is to change the die If solids or
powder is to be placed in the can, the
tins are made without solder; for
| liquids, fruits, etc. with solder. After
my long harangue, 1 haven't told you
| now the cans are MADE.
1.-The die cuts the sheet of tin for the
required can or box Then this sheet
is propelled along a shaft which creases
the edges of the sides, where the seams
are to be. After the creating of the
seam the can passes over soft rollers
| which roll acid on the seam, and then
it passes between soldering irons, one
outside and one inside the seam. The
solder unreels from above the irons,
and the jets beneath are so regulated
| that they sustain an even temperature.
Every detail is locked to for just be-
hind the irons are Scrapers which
shave away every bit of sulphur solder,
and still another set of rollers clean the
seam. More water soaked rollers cool
the seam, the can is tightly clamped
and is done, dropping into a receptacle.
"At the lower end small attachment
cuts, creases and hoist the covers
which are clapped on the cans just be-
fore reaching the finish goal
Fred c. Marx was at the Knutsford
all day yesterday. Mr.. Marx travels
out of New Orleans, with imported
olive oil, and although this is his first
trip to Salt Lake he is enchanted with
the city. Mr.. Marx is a pleasant talker
and brings d most astounding piece of
news from Portland, Or.
The majority of the people won't be-
lieve it, but he brings the information
that they've had one clear day up there
during the last two months.
J. j. Rosenthal, Roland Reeds ad-
vance, is stopping at the Knutsford.
Templeton guests of yesterday were:
B. r. Wells, Chicago; G. E. Fehrman,
New York, and ]. H. Brady, Chicago.
Those registering at the Walker
house yesterday were Caleb Jones' Ma
lad Ida; T. J. Hunt and wife, Bellevue,
Ida; l. H. Amos, Portland, Or; ]. H.
Pace, Eureka, and F. B. Fields, Omaha
The following people are staying at
the Cullen: J. P. Spalding, Challis,
Idaho; N. ]. Sharp, Challis; J. NJ.
Hutcheson, Chicago, and P. P. Egan,
Colorado.
Knutsford arrivals yesterday were
p. S. Abbott, Boston; Mrs. Redwood,
Toxic; Miss Lowther, London; Lee
Leon, New York G. A. Lorizer, Butte;
R. w. Foster, New York; T. o. Hill
bourn, Chicago; M. H. Greenbaum,
Louisville; G. S. Bowman and F. FALL,
Kansas City; S. w. Williams, Rockford
b. II. Moody, St Louis; John Lyon ST.
Louis; G. A. Rumpf, Butte; H. o. Bell
London; /. K. Greenbaum, louisville,
w. S. Aldridge, Rochester, and A. E.
BlakeSley, Omaha