The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-10
He is LEARNING FACTORY IN ORDER
New Congressman Topeka Industry Is in
Things Brand New. Complete Operation.
"Freshmen" Members Do Not Novel Weighing Machine Is
Get Garden Built in This City.
STRONG MAY WRITE A BOOK BRING IN SKILLED MECHANICS
He Something About Invention Made by High
Democrat Trips. Salared Men.
Sending France TOpekans Interested in
Great Pastne. the Enterprise
Novel Weighing Machine Is
Built in This City.
BRING IN SKILLED MECHANICS
Scott Invention Made by High
SaIaried Men.
Many TOpekans Interested in
the New Enterprise.

Charles D. Scott a resident of To-
peka. has invented a machine for
weighing sugar and other food prod
ucts in retail stores that for original
ity, mechanical precision and unique
features generally is destined to take
front rank among weighing devices.
You have seen the grocer clerk along
about $3.50 - m, when the store was
packed with customers clamoring to
be. waited upon, grab a paper bag,
rush to the sugar hopper, take a
scoop and start to weigh so cents
worth of sugar. First, he partly fills
the bag, then takes it in one hand and
a scoop full of sugar in the other.
places the bag on the scale, pours in
too heavy, takes an ounce or two out,
spills some on the floor, finally gets
the approximate weight in the bag.
losses the scoop with the remaining
portion OF sugar back in the supply
hopper, ties upNthe package, and says,
What else ?"
SCOTS machine stands on the coun-
ter in much the same way as an ordf-
nary scale, but right here the similar
ity ceases. Instead of using a scoop
to fill the bag, then placing it on the
scale to be weighed, the clerk merely
sets an indicator for the desired
amount, presses button, the machine
takes the sugar from the supply hop
per which is located under the coun-
ter, weighs it in transit and deposits
it in the bag, all without the aid
of human hands; in other words, it
does the work of both the clerk and
the scales, and of course eliminates
the Inaccuracies of weighing by the or
binary hand method. 1t is designed so
that the parts are interchangeable for
making either a highly sensitive COM
putting scale, or with slight modifica-
tons the same parts are used for
making the automatic machine that
operates with almost human intelli-
gence.
New Factory Here.
The Scott Weighing Machine COM
pany has been organized with an au-
thorized capital of 100000, and has
Just finished equipping a splendid new
factory with modern machinery and
tools located at 41S-42O jackson
street
Some of Topeka's best business men
are interested in this enterprise. In
Guided among its officers and direc-
tors are 1. S. McFarlane of the Mer-
RAM Mortgage company; w. H Da-
Wis. retired wholesale grocer; E. c. Ar
mold, wholesale druggist; ]. H. Con
der. capitalist; F: F. Apitz, capitalist
and banker at Manhattan. Kan, and
Chas. d. Scott. the inventor. who for
several years was general manager of
the Davis Mercantile company, whole
sale grocery house.
SCOTS Other Inventions.
This is not SCOTS first invention in
the weighing machine line; several
years ago he patented and developed a
rapid fire automatic machine for
weighing such commodities as coffee,
tea, cereals, spices. etc This machine
is used exclusively by wholesale
houses, coffee roasting establishments,
and manufacturers putting up uniform
food packages for the trade He sub
mits letter written by what is pur-
ported to be the largest tea and coffee
house in the world. in which they
state that they have total of forty
nine of his machines in use, and con-
slider them superior to anything of the
kind in existence. Scott has disposed
of these patents to a Boston concern
where the machines are being manu-
featured at the present time and are
in general use all over the United
States
The Scott Weighing Machine COM
pany has already brought skilled me-
chanics to Topeka from Alton, Ill:
Dayton. o.; Toledo. O.; Elkhart, Ind.
and have more on the way. They
expect to have from twenty-five to
thirty people employed within the
next thirty days.