AUTOMATIC BOTTLE MAKING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, 24 April 1913, Page 26

AUTOMATIC BOTTLE MAKING.

An automatic bottle-making machine, invented and in use in Germany, is one of the triumphs of modern machine building. Doing the work of

250 expert glass-blowers, it was considered such a menace to labour in Germany, where bottle-making is an industry of great magnitude, that the Government is said to have limited its use by rather stringent rules. The automatic making of bottles is accomplished through a great number of movable vacuum arms. A certain quantity of molten glass is drawn into the machine, air pressure is applied, and the glass is injected into an ir<|n mould accommodating several bottles. This operation takes but a few seconds, then a device cuts the several bottles apart, the mould opens, and the bottles are automatically placed on a conveyer and transported to the cooling chamber. The machine can produce 2000 bottles an hour. The bottles are absolutely uniform in shape and capacity, exactly the same quantity of glass beingblown into the mould, and they are delivered in an uninterrupted stream.

“An enormous increase in the direct use of habit-forming drugs and in the use of raw alcohol united with Paregoric, cocaine, or laudinum has

followed in every locality where Prohibition has been adopted. Thus the attempt to enforce abstinence upon the man who wants to drink is not only ineffective, but destructive.” —Dr. Chas. B. Towns, in ‘ The Century M agazine.”

Mr. Harris, of the National Licensed Victuallers’ Defence Association, England, recently told the members that he was sure they would find the Trade again fighting for its very existence within the next 18 months. The Government, he said, was very vindictive, and had never forgotten the way in which the unjust licensing Bill was “returned” by the Lords, and w’as only waiting to once more introduce a measure of so-called temperance reform. No body of people wished to see drunkenness decrease more than the licensed victuallers themselves, but why the Radicals should persist in harassing and worrying them on every conceivable occasion puzzles fair-minded individuals. The main thing, however, was that licensed victuallers should be on their guard.