A New Automatic Machine.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1882, 17 March 1888, Page 3

A New Automatic Machine.

The fact that sixteen thousand gross of glass bottles are every day imported into this country from Germany and Belgium (says the St. James Gazette) should help a good many people to a better understanding of what foreign competition is like, But there seems to be considerable probability that the tables are about to be turned as regards the manufacture of bottles. In England the cost of producing a gross of bottles by manual labor — the only method hitherto known — is 3s lOd ; but a machine has just been invented by means of which, it is claimed, the cost will not exceed 3d per gross. From time immemorial bottles have been made by " mouth blowing " — a process which wastes one-half of the glass used and requires the employment of two men and three men to each furnace. A furnace produces seven gross of bottles daily ; the new automatic machine will, it is said, turn out eighty gross. The best of workmen cannot fashion a bottle which is mathematically perfect; whereas the machine made bottles never vary. With the machine nearly one-half the hands now required can be dispensed with; although by its adoption we can stop the foreign importations, there will be little fear of its use making any addition to the ranks of unemployed. An important firm of glass-blowers in Yorkshire has announced that it will save .£35,000 a year by henceforward making its wares by machinery. That every bottle used in the world — and 46,000 gross are turned out every day in various parts of the globe— should still be made by hand is certainly astonishing.

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