THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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It "Springs In" the End Bars. 



the frame. At the opposite end is fixed a small furniture caster, 

 and the distance between this caster and the wedge-shaped stop, at 

 the other end, is o Ki inch less than the outside length of the frame. 



The frame is easily forced in place, by dropping one end against 

 the stops, while the other rolls in past the caster, bending in the 

 end-bars. The frame is then wired, and the little nails forced into 

 the wood, while the frame is in the gauge, with a pair of pliers, 

 with jaws bent to the proper angle, ^^'hen removed from the gauge, 

 the end-bars spring in place, and the wires are as tight as could 

 be desired. 



Others have also devised machines to "spring in" the end-bars, 

 but so far as I have seen, they are comparatively complicated 

 arrangements of springs and levers, while ours is as simple as it 

 could be made and embody the necessary principles. 



The hole shown, below the caster, is to allow more finger-room 

 to wind the end of the wire around the tack. 



Less time is required for the work, and the combs are decidedly 

 better than before. 



Meridian. Idaho. 



[Springing in the end bars while putting in the wire in order to have the wire 

 tight when completed is a new one to me. Friend Atwater says that the methods 

 have been described before for doing this but 1 must confess I have never tried 

 any of them. The plan outlined above looks practical to me.] 



