The Pensacola journal., 1920-02-29

\ significant change has come over
the American tea packing business
dJfrirg the past two or three year. Pc
fore the outbreak OF the war in Europe
most Of the nationally known trade
marked package teas sold in this
Country were packed, ready for the
consumer. in either London or Cal
Cu-ta. Now they are put up in Amer
lea in large and modern tea paCketing
plants that, as general rulr, are far
In advance of the foreign plants in
the point Of high efficiency equipment.
This change constitutes one Of the
Interesting recent del eIopments in the
American tea business. and is a direct
result OF the war. Thousands of dol
lars have been invested in machinery
and buildings. anJ the manager of one
of the largest OF these plants states
that the company has no intention of
reverting To pre-war arrangements
after peace comes.
+ An American Tea Packing Plant.
. One of the most representative of
these new tea packing plants was
opened recently by. Joseph Tetley d
Co, at ass Greenwich street. New
York
The thought that remains uppermost
i'm the mind of n visitor after leaving
thc Tetlcy factory is that every prac-
1lcal measure has been taken to pro-
vide the most approved labor saving
and health preserving devices obtain
able Evety department. from the
blending 10 the shipping room. il
equipped with machinery that is de
signed to turn out the best package of
tea i'm the quickest time.
The TctIey nlaut occupies five floors
of remodeled building in one of the
busiest sections of down town New
York. 1t has been arranged 50 that
very little lifting hy hand IS necessary
In moving the ton. packages. etc. from
one department to another. This Is
accomplished by the gravity system
whereby the tea is literally poured
through from the store room TO the
shipping department.
As an example, the cases in which
tho teas come from South India and
Ccylon are opened i'm the storcroou
on the top floor. ard their contents
dumped down al chute that leads into
p tea mixer on tie next floor, whcAct
e goes through more chutes to The
store room on Tire first floor.
This system, i'm connection with an
electrically operated Burns tea mixer
the pueumatie sale Corporations au-
tomato weighing ANA packaEiuE ma
chimes ana "A special design labelling
and drying apparatus. enables the com
pdny to turn our from 1900 to Is 00C
packages per machine per day.
Blending the Tea Electrically.
Followine the different operations
through which tho tea passes one
tea passes one comes first to the lab
nratory. where \. /. Sanders. the Tet-
ley tea export. tests and makers ur
the sample blends. This point decided
a blender pours the different varieties
down ii galvanized sheet iron chute
that leads into the mixer on the next
floor below.
The tea mixer is the product Of IA =
be- Burns < Sons. New York. It can
blend IN five minutes quantity of tea
that formerly required two hours by
the oId-time hand method. The ten
fluff is automatically removed by a
suction fan and collected IN the fun
nclshaped container seeua NJ the left
OF tle sheet iron miNilg cylinder. An
air vent runs from the top Of the coll
leesor to the outside of tho building.
After the blend is completed the tea