The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-22

p,easantest room in the factorv for
plsnty OF light and keen vision 60 To-
s2r SensI 10 make their work effective
~, inspectors sit in row before a
Inc papers of pins are spread
~ oe1ore them, and they deity re-
sno .' an Dlunt and injured pins. in
49,. ing Iresn ones in the places BY
snelr work Of handling thousands Of
pms every day their eyes become won
uerIuily trained. so that they can de-
,sct the slightest flaw Of tb.. Dins
that they throw out one Will be fouDd
70 nave little hook on the point an
u an ll-shaped head. but the i'm
directions are so slight that the ordi-
mary person, unframed to such WORK
would not detect one in A hundred
paper OF pins of standard size contains
Io"S' with 80 pins in a row. So
ueItiy and quickly does the insDectoT-
90 ner work that she handles thou-
SANDS OF pins in the course of an hour.
Se. siie almost never overloOl1s one that
contains an imperfection.
After leaving the inspectors the n.-
pers are folded, labeled and packed in
cases, ready for shipment. 1t NAV have
Deen only two or three hours since the
little pin now reposing in its neat case
along with hundreds of its fellows. was
part of a coil of wire MANY rods in
Iengtn, put during that time it has
e---Coen q OOLtH inherent Oner-
auons and twice that number of pairs
of hands P'''S
me process described is that through
when the ordinary pin. what may lie
cSei,eu the house pin, passes. but. OF
course. there are endless variations on
enlS uSual FORM Some of the brass pius
aIe auoWed 10 retain their original color
st tueSe, OF course. do not pass through
ne nlSkilnS baths. Instead. they are
boiled in another solution. Then there is
the nluTqerous hatpin and others which
II Is desirable to have of a dark color
IheSe are subjected to the treatment
SHOWN as 1apanning. From the manu-
Idcturlng room they go to the basement.
Were they are placed in q revoIyins,
cynhder half filled with the hot japan
Hihs mixture When removed frOr- here
tney are hung on racks and placed in
o. ovens under an intense heat where
oneV are allowed to bake for an hour
or more Then they are removed.
eledne9 IN sawdust. and henceforth
treated like the Others
mere are other pins of odd and Won
dertul shapes Simplest of all is the
SrlnDing pin, which is made by simply
pending straight piece of wire so that
t-ie Two ends are OF equal length. Safe
= pms require more hand labor than
am Other kind, and are made by a sep
arate process The point is sharpened
while the pin is still straight piece OF
WIRE Then II passes through "a machine
VIZ. M-liIh "a. ueitiy winds 1t about an upright
steer rod, thus making the springs The
headS are made separately by a ma
chine. which stamps them out of long
STRIPS OF wire. and the two parts are
hrmiy joined by a ciamping machine
NO machine has yet been invented that
VIII stick safety pins into the papers, and
TINS part of the work is done by hand.
Here again experience lends sDeed how
ever. and a girl who is an expert can
count 100 gross of safeties in a day.
y branch of the business to which the
button craze and the recent campaign
gave great impetus is the manufacture
OF the pins used for mounting campaign
badges and motto buttons Last fall the
orders for these ran as high as 20.000 per
day, and they could not be turned out
last enough to satisfy the demand. Then
there are dressmakers' pins. bank pins,
hooked and bent and circular pins in be-
wildering variety.
The statement that 800 Workmen and
more than 100 rapid working machines,
capable of turning out 300 or more pins
per minute. are employed in a single
factory gives no adequate impression of
the great mountain of pins that is re-
CURED to supply the market every year.
perhaps statement of some of the
orders received at one of the large Con-
necticut factories will give a clearer
idea The big department stores in the
great cities frequently order 100 cases at
a time case of pins consists of los
dozen papers. $50 pins in each paper.
These are the correct figures. but no
body except a person with a genius for
would attempt to deter
mine from them how many pins the peO-
pic VI tic OiIlltQ OldltS LltlldS6 u lose.
destroy, or in some way get rid of in the
course of year.
1t is gratifying to note that in this,
as in so many other industries the me-
chanical genius for which Americans
are famous mas placed this country in
the foremost of production 1t is an in
structive lesson on the complication and
specialization of modern industrial con-
1itiOns to note the many different pro-
cesses involved in the manufacture. of
even the simplest object required IN daily
use. There is mystery and romance even
in the making of pin.
EARL MAYO.