The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-19
A WONDER.
Machine That Yields
at Lightning Speed.
CLINTON'S CLOCK,
Residents Want New Time
piece Illuminated.

Clinton, Jan. Worcester county
possesses the only machine in exist
ence that is capable of welding two
pieces of metal too rapidly for the eye
to follow the operation. This machine
is owned by the Clinton Wire Cloth
Company. 1t has been in the expert
mental stage for some time, but the
first machine for actual use has been
recently completed and is now in reg
ular commercial use. Charles Swins-
coe, manager of the company, showed
the correspondent of The Spy two wires
an eighth of an inch in diameter that
were electrically welded together in the
form of a cross by process applied
in an almost human mechanism and
entirely unique.
1t was explained that, while metals
have been electrically welded by Prof.
Thompson, by gradually heating the
parts to be welded up TO the fusion
point; and by Prof. Burton, who uses
the arc between two carbon points,
which is a gradual process, the process
used in the works Of the Clinton Wire
Cloth Company, is to force a current
of such volume through the wires that
they are welded in less than the tenth
part of a second.
Now, as it seems to the company's
experts, while this system revolution
ICES the process of electrically welding
wires, 1t has brought to light an en-
tlrely new principle connected with
welding. 1t is the welding of two wires
coated with a covering which melts at
a much lower temperature than the
metal welded.
For instance steel wire coated with
tin can be welded, although the tin
melts at 400 degrees and the steel re-
quires 5000 degrees. Or a galvanized
steel wire is welded. although the zinc
coating melts at $50 degrees and the
steel at 5000 degrees without DESTROYING.
lnnuring, or even marrlng the protect
ing coating.
This process is nov being utilized by
the Clinton Wire Cloth Company in
the manufacture Of an electrically well
ded fence. The fence is covered by
patents owned by the Clinton Wire
Cloth Company, as Is the machine
1t was necessary for the company to
acquire the exclusive right for electric
welding by this process from the
thompson Electric Welding Co In fact
Prof. Thompson has secured some two
or three hundred patents relating to
electric welding, which are supposed to
cover the whole ground
me fence made by electrical welding
consists Of perfect rectangles. with no
bending or twisting Of the wire. The
work Is done by a machine that is most
wonderful IN its ingenuity. The Va is
carried into cross and perpendicular.
une sections of juncture are brought
under the welding mechanism. there -
an instant Of sputter, little smoke. and
the wire is welded in perhaps FORTY
places to as many heavy wires lying
across it,
1t is confidently expected that the de-
mand Will be such as to require a largo
number of these machines, and the re-
suit corresponding increase in the
Dsnent that this town receives from one
OF tne most substantial wire manufac-
turing industries in the world.
IN Importance this method of electri-
al Welding Is held to rank next to
Nikoia Tesla's system of high potential
currents, in the field Of electrical dis
SSoVery. IL VIII bring a large volume of
business TO the concern possessing the
process and controlling the patents.
The town clock seems to be assured.
The committee in charge of the collec-
tons have already taken in in the
nelghborhood of $500. A town clock of
a suitable pattern will cost but $3.50
me question comes now rather on 4ha
illumination than on the clock An ~
Eliminated clock will cost 1852. It viii
COST ABOUT 81 a day for the light It is
thought that the town will be WILLING
10 meet this charge inasmuch as tbs
citizens will purchase the clock II is
practically settled in the minds of the
committee that an illuminated clock is
wanted 0o1fN -
Thomas D. Tate. member of tha
committee said to the correspondent Of
me spy, this evening: I'VE are going
10 nave town clock in Clinton, and if
IS going to be Illuminated. of Coursa II
IS. me only thing that bothers' me is
Ian We get our clock illuminated before
worcester gets its clock, which il has
illuminated" mas
Wednesday evening a union Sunday
school normal class will be organized
in the vestry of the Baptist church in.
Guiding representatives from schools
IN Chnton and vicinity. The class win
pe under the instruction of w. r
ConanI OF worcester, who has aIraad,,
Taught nine consecutive terms in Wor-
Jester and elsewhere. This class win
pc under the direction of Rev. A NJ
Osgood, normal secretary for Clinton
AAGtrict. i'Oii
me Young Mems Republican Climb
VIII meet tomorrow night, in rooms in
cTreeIeys block, to make arrangements
Tor a vigorous campaign, under tbe
direction of President c. +. Fairbani,
Jr. Mr.. Fairbank said this mornina,
That the club would enter the field az
vigorously as it has at any time and
VIII fight to win. Mr.. Fairban< was
added to the republican town commit
lee at its meeting last night. This is
ms fourth term with the committee
He and Representative S. Ives Wallace
are the Oldest members of the commit
Tee, excepting Neil Walker, who has
served for nearly decade. The com
mittee is composed almost entirely Of
new men
The Massachusetts Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has
notified Its agents in Clinton that thev
are agents in perpetuty, unless noti-
fed to the contrary. Special Agent
Charles A. Currier finds it unnecessary
to issue special commissions each year.
Nelson j. Harding is a candidate for
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