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BASE BALL MANUFACTURE.Bow ?ho Instruments of fan *1111 Xortnw Are .Made Marti anti Finn.[Philadelphia Times. 1At least 10,000,000 ba-o balls are made and cold in this country every year. Perhaps /cry fow persons know the process by which ihoso balls are manufactured or the nature ji the stuffs used in construe ting a standard ball Tho most expert workmen are employed. F;r.tt there is a little hard rubber bull, and around that the wrapper winds a strong, bluo, coarse yarn. When this reaches 1 prescribed size it is Unnly wrapped with tfhito Venetian yarn.The balls are thou placed in an oven and saked until all tho moi-turo fc* taken out of .hem and thoy are reduced in size. The# nukes tbem solid. After this they are :oated with cement. This causes the balls :o retain their shape, and they cannot be cnockod crookod. Then comes soma fine alue yam, and around the whole is placed lao white gilliug twine. The balls are weighed, for each must bo of certain weight, md are now ready for tho covers. Thea» ■jitter are made of tho best quality of horset-rido. Tho cover consists of two pieces, inch cut in too shape of the figure **’ By bending one section one way and tho other in an opposite direction, a complete cover farobtained.That was tho discovery of a college boy. For years the belts xvjro covered with four Mecos of leather, but the genius of the college chap has proved c. great benefit to too manufacturers. At ono time two covers were placed upon a buU. That is, tho boll was half lucdo whan it wa? covered, and 5hen another ball constructed over it. Bat ivun that did not prevent its being knocked ;ut of sbr.po. They cannot disturb tho ball is now made, though, bo cans a tho cement*oids it.A little machine owned by a Philadelphia icm is usod for winding the balls. It is the only coo in tho world. It wrapt* two and mo-halt ounces of the American association balls in a minute, and tho rest is finished by :u:iu. That apparatus is a little wonder, [t does its work as neatly as if it hail brains, jut u capable, say it* owners, of a good dealn improvement.
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Lawrenceburgh Register
Lawrenceburg, Indiana, US
Thu, May 14, 1885
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