The Making of Pins.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 6, 6 February 1902, Page 20

The Making of Pins.

Pins, previous to 1824, were all made by hand, and were, consequently, very costly. Pin-making machines have been brought to a state of perfection. They now receive the wire from the spools, cut it into proper lengths, make the head and point, polish the pins, and by a most singular piece of machinery, gather up at one motion a proper number to compose the row, fold the strips of paper and piss the pins through. A slight movement of the roller bearing the paper pushes it forward a little further, it is again caught up by the clamps and another row of pins pre« Bed into position. It is oUimed for some of these pin-making maohines that they can manufacture 500 pins a minute.