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THE LA.?HE.Here ii another bar of Iron, bat this is roand and somewhat larger than an ordinary arm. It is black end rough, and not entirely true. It is turning slowly, and the little instrument toward which its circumference constantly mores is the least conspicuous of its parts. ▲ small piece of sharpened steel, half hidden to the crowds that pass, is gnawing away at the end as it revolves, making it a complete circle. The bar continues to 4urn, the tool to cut, and moving as it cuts until it has made the bar from one end to the other an axle, perfectly straight and round. This tool Is a screw cutting lathe.These may not be wonders, but they are things that comparatively few of the entire population have seen. Bo indeed might the whole of Power Hall be pissed through until the person not a practical mechanic is smasbd at the number of things that are in daily operation to contribute to his wants and the demands of the world.THE BUNG MACHINE.Take the bung machine tor making bungs of all slses. This is a specialty In Cincinnati. The enterprise of a single citizen, in a comparatively few years, i by the multipMoation of these machines, has built up his business until he almost supplies the country and has visited foreign lands bunging things ss he has proceeded. The magnitude of the business is now astonishing. But to the machine. Here it is—s circular knife, the diameter of which will be the aise of the bung, moving rapidly in a perpendicular position. Under it is passing a section of a board which is an eighth of an inch thicker than the diameter of the bung that is making, and which is sawed the desired length of the bung. This passes under the circular knife, or chisel, as it is termed by mechanics, Down comes the chisel and a round plug is formed.The chisel rises* Instantly a die reaches forth from the rear to receive the plug,and having received it, quickly returns to receive a stamp that comes down heavily and quickly upon the latter, imprinting the manufacturer*s name npon it, and at the same time forcing It down into the die, forming the rounded end which we see when the bung is done and which enables It to be readily driven into the opening it is to 111. This done, the stamp rises, and as quick as thought a little spring, exactly at the right time, strikes the bung now completed, throwing It into a hopper from which it tolls into a barrel for shipment.THE QUA? BLOWER.But here is quite another implement—a rotary blower, from Connersville. Crowds of people are about It, while perhaps the lathe that is doing Its wonderful work has not a spectator near it. It is a machine tor raising the wind, and suoh a thing many a man has sought and not found. It is Intended to furnish air to cupolas In foundries; to sup*
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Cincinnati Semi Weekly Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Tue, Oct 04, 1870
Page 3
Full Page
Clipped by
Daniel J.
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