Britain at Work
A Pictorial Description of Our National Industries
År: 1902
Forlag: Cassell and Company, Limited
Sted: London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
Sider: 384
UDK: 338(42) Bri
Illustrated from photographes, etc.
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BRITAIN AT WORK.
in shape, are the colour of brass wire, and
greasy to handle. After being thoroughly
cleaned by revolving in barrels, they are
spread out flat in steam-heated kettles, a
fine tin powder is laid over them, a certain
quantity of acid is added, and in this the
pins are boiled for four hours, They come
out bright and silvery, being thinly coated
with tin, and are then dried in sawdust, put
once more into revolving barrels to be
polished, and freed from dust by being placed
in a flat tray and tossed about in a fashion
only to be mastered by long practice.
The next process is to look them over
carefully, weeding out all imperfect ones,
and then all that remains is to stick them
in paper, which is done by a machine. The
paper is mechanically crimped and placed
in position to receive the pins, which are
dexterously swept with a brush down an
inclined plane leading to it by the girl feed-
ing the machine. They pass into the latter
in long vertical lines, a lever brings the paper
under their points, a clever bit of machinery
presses them into it, and row by row a sheet
is filled with from 100 to 500 pins evenly-
arranged, and leaves the machine quite ready
for the purchaser.
A special department of the factory
employs girls to make the boxes and packets
in which the pins are also put up. I hese
vary from small ounce boxes to large
decorated cases, and many of them are
very pretty as well as useful, containing
various kinds of pins in daintily designed
receptacles. JOSEPHINE BULLEN.
{The illustrations accompanying this article are from photographs specially taken for the purpose, and are the
copyright of Cassell and Co., Ltd.}