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•Kill bo an immense mway. . . „.The machines for this purpose have joot been sot -op. There arc rao of them, exactly alike, and one will do for description. r.vr.i-iae a wooden box nearly CO feet long, 4 feet high nad « ™d°-From ciul to cud runs what might be ^k-cn for the skeleton of a trough.This skeleton projects from the box for a few feet at either extremity. Tne box is traversed by two endless chains, run-njD- side by side, two feet apart, Into ontMjncl tbc'shects of printed stamps are fed one bv one. As it is fed into the machine each shoot passes under a roller like the roller of a printing pm*?, to which a cum made of dextrin is slowly supplied-The sheet takes up a coat a. this mucilage on its lower side and is earned on by tho endless chain through the loap bo*. This box is u hot-air box, being heated by steam pipes. At the other mid ol it tho sheets are delivered at the rateot la a mm-., me. Just o:ic minute is required,for s sheet ro pass through the box, ano it isdelivered perfectly dry.The gummed sheets thus delivered arc passed uver to a long table, where girls nick them tin in pairs, and placing the gummed sides together put them between hirers of straw hoards. Arranged m tbn wiiv they arc placed under a stcam press to flatten them, the mucilage having causedthorn to curl somewhat,On coming out of the press they aro counted again, ami now they go to the • perforating machine that ninke holes by vr Well U is tendered easy to tcacthe stamps ujjarc.The perforative: machine is an arrange-mene of little wheels revolving parallel to each other and just far enough apart » make the perforations as ono sctw.ueni in3 sheet of finished sunups fresh bought at the postolHce. After the perforations ha%o been made acros* the sheet one w^y by quo irmchinc the sheet must pas* through li second mnebiao w the cross periora--tions.—Washington Star.
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Racine Journal
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Nov 07, 1894
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