El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-05

of necessity. A French glass manufac-
turer was harrassed by labor troubles
! in one way or another until at last he
shut down his plant. Then he set TO
work trying to devise a machine that
| would take the place of men in blowing
bottles 1t was not many months before
! machines We're installed, and his work
started again. This was the forerunner
| OF the American machine that is so
| nearly human that it can do its work
| better than men, and can make bottles
for 40 cents a hundred which cost 20
cents under the hand method
The making Of bottles was long be-
| leved to be the one branch of glass
making that hand laborers could de-
pend upon as being free from machine
| competition. The introduction of the
bottle making machinery exploded that
| theory, and when the manufacturer re-
cites the advantages of the machine
| made bottle over the handmade and
adds that the number of bottles broken
among handmade ones was 80 per 1000
as compared with three per 1000, ma
| chine-made, he clinches his argument
| against the older method
Saves Mems Health.
One of the b0ons OF the new method
is the fact that pulmonary diseases,
which were very frequent among bot
tie blowers, have been almost entirely
overcome by the new method. Passing
the blowing tube from lip to lip spread
, contagion, and the high death rate
among glass blowers was attributed
more TO this than any other one cause.
In the machines compressed air does the
work that was hitherto required of hu-
man lungs, and the sick and death rates
have both fallen off since the introduce
ton Of the machines. More than 25
factories are now turning out machine
made bottles.
The exploitation Of bottle-making
machinery is an apt illustration of how
one new mechanical device may aid an
other. A complete bottle-making ma
chine weights about Is tons. OF course
the drummer cannot put one Of them in
a suit case and lug it around So he
has enlisted the aid of the moving pic
ture machine, and has q string of films
showing the whole process from the
assembling and setting up of the ma
chine to the completion of the finished
bottles. With this film in his grip he is
able to go to any town IN the country
where there is moving picture ap-
paratus and demonstrate the wonders
Of glass blowing by machinery.
Styles in Bottles.
There are a great many styles of
bottles. new fashions being brought out
each year. Last year 81 new styles were
placed on the market To the bottle
manufacturer therefore only few great
classes of bottles. and his nomenclature
is as follows: Prescriptions and yiaIs.
beers and minerals. patent and proprie-
tary, liquids and TASKS, fruit jars and
sundries.
By the records Of the bottle makers
it is shown that the patent medicine
output in the United States amounts 70
nearly S00,000,000 bottles a year, while
the liquid prescriptions filled by the
pharmacists may be twice as many. OF
course there is no definite way to tell
the number of prescriptions filled,
since some bottles get back to the drug
store many times before finishing their
career. In Europe the bottle is always
charged for in addition to the cost of
the prescription. and the result is that
the majority of bottles come back again /
and again.
An Exact Science
Bottle-making is now almost an exact /
science The directions for making a |
certain kind Of color of glass are writ /
ten out with the accuracy of a doctors +
prescription The molten glass when /
ready to be turned into bottles is con- !
tanned in great lakes 75 feet long, I6 !
feet wide, and five feet deep. The fur |
naces under these lakes are first heat
ed by small candle, the by a kerosene
lamp, then by easy gradations until it
reaches the white heat of molten metal.
Then the finished bottle is allowed
gradually to pass through a declining
temperature until at last it comes out a
cool and tempered bottle
Careful studies have been made to de-
-ermine what color of glass has the best
effect on the liquids which are put up I
N 6ottles. AS to beer. it has been found
that dark reddish brown bottle is the |
best, while the one Of champagne color
S not good protector Of the best quail
ties of beer.
Green and blue are also poor protect
ors. The round-bottom bottle is as OH
IS history. and was first the product
II ignorance-they did not know how
20 make it otherwise. But modern ex-
Derience teaches that for carbonated
thinks they are the best, since they will
always lie on their sides, thus keeping
ne corks wet and preventing shrInkage
md consequent loss OF gas.
Non-RefilIabIe Bottles
For years there has been a constant |
to perfect a non-refillable |
bottle, and the patent office has been
ieluged with applications for patents
or such bottles. 1t has been a tradition
lmong people everywhere that a for
une awaits the man who produces such
bottle That might have been true
ONE years ago, but IT is no longer.
The law against misbranding prevents
my wholesale fraud in using refiIled Il
'ottles- There have been hundreds of
on-refillable bottle patents issued.
ome OF them are successful so far as
helr use is concerned, but their cost
S prohibitive
A new bottle that promises TO he
ONE popular is the poison bottle. 1t is
uaranteed to prevent the taking Of
olsons by mistake. 1t is a bottle made