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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 



OUR TIN-SHOP. 

 PERFORATING MACHINE, ETC. 



T= ET'S sec. We have given our readers a 

 K view of our factory, a glimpse into our 

 \J. saw-room, ami one of our .office. We 

 AJ now take pleasure in giving you a 

 photographic view of our tinning 

 apartment. The picture is an exact repro- 

 duction by the Ives process, and, of course, 

 every thing appears just as it did when 

 photographed, which was ( ne afternoon 

 immediately after shutting down. The 

 view shows perhaps a little over one-half 

 the room. Our tin-shop, including paint- 

 shop, is one spacious apartment 4t x 96 



regular intervals. A foot-treadle, shown 

 in the foreground, can be so operated as to 

 throw on or off the power at will. If a 

 punch should happen to drop out, as it did 

 on one occasion, or something else should 

 get out of order, the machine can be in- 

 stanth stopped, and thus avoid an expen- 

 sive breakdown. A man stations himself 

 in the rear, picks up a sheet of zinc. 28 \ 96 

 inches, from the tloor, and places it on the 

 table. He then slides the two ratchet-bars 

 back far enough to fasten the ends of the 

 zinc to tlu m. A pressure of his foot upon 

 the treadle sets the machine to perforating. 

 At every chank of the great jaw, 70 little 

 oblong pieces of metal drop down into a 



OUll TIN-SHOP, WITH Till. ZINC-PERFORATING MACHINE IN THE FOREGROUND 



feet, and in it are something Over 40 tin- 

 ning-machines. 



•• What do you call this machine just be- 

 fore us ?" you ask. 



•• Why. that is our new zinc-perforating 

 machine."' Unfortunately, the engine has 

 just shut down : but a sheet of zinc lias been 

 passed half way through. The balance- 

 wheel is connected by a belt to a pulley be- 

 low. The two sets of cog-wheels, in con- 

 nection with the connecting-rods, as you 

 will readil} perceive, give immense power 

 to the punches. 70 in number, inserted in 

 the sliding carriage. Lying on the front 

 platform, and on either side, are two rat diet - 

 bars. A couple of dogs, operating upon 

 these, cause the zinc to which the bars are 

 attached to be fed through the machine at 



keg. When several kegs are full they are 

 sold with their contents to junk dealers, 

 who gladly pay us enough for such scrap 

 zinc to fully pay for the time of a man and 

 the machine for perforating the sheets. We 

 are thus enabled to put the price of per- 

 forated zinc down to nearly the cost of the 

 raw imperforated metal. 



The capacity of the machine is something 

 over a thousand feet of metal per day ; and 

 so great has been the call for it that we 

 have sold during the past year about o0 

 casks of zinc, and our past trade has been 

 such that we feel wan anted in believing 

 that we shall sell very nearly double that 

 amount in the near future. 



We have given you these facts in order 

 that yon may get some idea of the demands 



