THE WANZER SEWING MACHINE.

Evening Star, Issue 4230, 16 September 1876, Page 4

THE WANZER SEWING MACHINE.

It; is known throughout the world that theproprie'tior and founder of these machines has displayed great ability, unsurpassed enterprise, aud untiring industry in bringing it up to its p esent state of prosperity. Near 500 bauds are employed in Mr Wanzer's extensive business, and his investment maysafely.be put down at.leat a half million of dollars. Twelve are required for the production of a '* Wanzer," and as some of these ate specially characteristic of the factory in question, we will specify the processes in the first place, and comment on those which appear to merit special notice. The following operations are those to which we refer:—Smelting, moulding, annealing, turning, e'eaning (in churn-like mills), polishing, forging (such parte as the shuttle, tomtner, and attachments), small tool making, car. pentering, japanning, ornamenting, and niokei. plating on steel. Of the forogoing processes, that which is wrought by the agency of M'Cune's moulding machine is conrjroatively new, and deserves notice on the twofold ground of Its economising time, and producing a superior quality of work. The machine possesses the characteristic of most valuable inventions—that of extreme simplicity. It superset es the old method of moulding by inverting the order of it. Instead of pouring moltsn lead into a matrix from which a mould has been removed by hand, and wnioh has therefore been more or less disturbed by the removal, the mould is fixed, and i 3 thrust by dint of a handle into a frame of superincumbent sand, and withdrawn therefrom as a seal is withdrawn from wax, with such precision as scarcely to disturb a grain of sand. The value of this invention is recognised by «aTeTal of the sewing-machine manufacturers ofthe United States, who pay the patentees a royalty for its use. it appears that the respective manufacturers of the States and the Dominion ]ay po» riodical visits to each other's manufactories; th y thus avail themselves of the improvements of each, and it is to be hoped secure a reciprocal coi dialiiy of sentiment. The second process which specially interested us in thi3 inspection is that of ornamentation. Hand-labor in this caso, as in the former, is superseded by the use of a stamp—consumers, therefore, will participate with tho manufacturer, in the banefit accruing from the reduced cost of production. A royalty is paid in this instance also by several classes of traders, to tho patentees, viz., by scale-makers, and picture-frame makers, and by knitting-machine and sewing. machine manufacturers; each and all of these, instead of elaborately I«yin? their gilt ornamentation on their several articles by hand, avail th-.-m« selves of the process'styled H'Elcherau's which consists in the use of a stamp, made of gelatine, ou which (if we may so say) tho ornamentation is engraved. . An ordinary lad can by such m.-'ans print the ornamental work on a dozen articles, ui the time that was formerly taken to adorn one. Of Mr "Wanzer's triumphs at the various exhibitions of the world, and pre-eminently at that of Vienna, it will be all but superfluous for us to write; hut of the cosmopolitan extent of hi 3 enterprise, inasmuch as we gathered the information at his faetery.it will be more permissible to speak. We refer to ihe fact that MrW.'s instruction books are printed in two-and-tbirty langnaeos.—[Advt.]