HOW PINS ARE MADE.
A snappish, voracious little dwarf of a machine pulls in the wire, bites if; off by inches incessantly, one hundred and forty bites a minute, and just as it seizes each bite a saucy little hammer, with a concave face, hits the end of the wire three taps and " upsets" it to a head, while he grips it in a countersunk hole between his teeth, and lays it sideways in a groove, where levers and springs, playing like lightning, point the pins, and whence they are dropped into a box. The pins are then polished, and two very intelligent machines reject every crooked pin. Another automaton assorts half a dozen lengths, and a perfect genius of a machine hangs the pins by the heads, and. transfers them to slips of paper, , and by one movement sticks them all through, two corrugated ridges in the paper, when the work is finished. The pin machine is one of the nearest approaches to the' dexterity of the human hand that has been invented. It is about the size of a sewingmachine., which it closely resembles. - .
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Otago Witness, Issue 1320, 17 March 1877, Page 19
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186HOW PINS ARE MADE. Otago Witness, Issue 1320, 17 March 1877, Page 19
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