INGENUITY AND LUXURY 



A few pages back we considered such machines as 

 the blungers, mixing arks, and pug-mills for use 

 in thoroughly mixing the clays ready for the actual 

 process of molding into pottery. Without going into 

 too greatly detailed description, we may consider for 

 a moment some of the other machines that take up 

 the actual process of pottery manufacture, after the 

 clay leaves the pug-mill. 



The batting-machine naturally comes first in the 

 order of use. In place of the block of plaster upon 

 which the presser or plate-maker had to pound or 

 roll his clay to the proper thickness for working, an 

 automatic batting-machine is used, which performs the 

 work in a small fraction of the time, and with mathe- 

 matical accuracy. The essential parts of this machine 

 are a revolving horizontal table on which the lump 

 of clay to be batted is placed, and a tool which descends 

 to the predetermined distance, pressing the clay out 

 into a layer of the required thickness. When it reaches 

 the point in its descent where the distance between it 

 and the revolving bed represents the desired thickness 

 of the bat, an automatic device causes the tool to rise 

 to its original position, leaving the finished bat ready 

 for the workman. With this machine any intelligent 

 boy can do the work of two or three men working by 

 hand. 



Machines for making such pieces as plates, cups, 

 saucers, bowls, and similar pieces are called "jolleys." 

 In the simplest form, such as the one used in plate- 

 making, the jolley has a spindle which can be rotated 

 horizontally, and to which the mold is attached. In 



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