THE OSBORNE STRING BINDER.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2063, 4 October 1880, Page 3

THE OSBORNE STRING BINDER.

With the return of summer comes thebinder man, and unfortunate pressmen are once more busily engaged in getting posted in eog gear, spool attachments, knotters and. twisters. One of the moßt genial of the craft, Mr H. J. Case, and better known as the representative of sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, has arrived from the Statesduring the paßt few dajß, bringing with him the new attachments for the Osborne reaperand binder of 1880. The firm which, as MrCase pithily puts it, " can lick all creation on binders," have manufactured an attachment for converting, at very small cost, the wirebinders now in use to string binders, thusdoing away with the necessity entailed by other machines of having a new one built specially for twine. "We claim," says MrCase, "to have thought out the champion attachment, which cannot be beat anywhere, and the cost is only twenty-five dollars, orfive pounds of your money." On Saturday MrCase proceeded practioally to illustrate, themethod of changing the attachments, to b. small but select audience. In order to change> from wire to twine all that is necessary is to unhitch the switch frame and in its stead substitute a knotting device. Then remove the twisting stand and put on a knotting stand, replacing the wire spool J with one of twine. Here Mr Case calls attention to the improvement made by D. M. Osborne and Co. on the method of fixing the twine adopted by other twine binders. Instead of having the twine in a ball in a box at the Bide, where as it paysout —from the jumping of the machine it is bound to get tangled—the twine is_ wound on a spool exactly the same as the wire, and pays out the same way, so that no tangling can ensue. Mr Case has brought a quantity of twine made from Kentucky hemp, but he heard suoh good aoeounts of the flax twine before leaving America that he intends using it so Boon as he can. The twine attachment comprises seven parts, and is under 251bs in weight, so that for a very moderate cost farmers holding Osborne machines can have them fitted for working either twine or wire. In fact, for £5 or £6 they get a dual maohine. The twine binding apparatus itself is very simple, and at the same time both effective and interesting to those who admire ingenious machinery. The re'dlo is threaded! similarly to the manner ueed in the wire binder. As the needle comes down fingers convey the twine to the knotter, where it is taken by a jaw which catches it, and turns *fc around the knotter, making a bow knot round the sheaf. So soon as this is dene the twine being at full tension a straight knife comes out on a coiled spring and cuts the twine. While this is going on a jaw comes up from below, which holds the twine thus severed for the next bundle, and the operation is again repeated. The knot tied is an exceedingly firm one, whilst the sheaves are bound as tightly as if by hand. Mr Case has set up what may be called his factor; at Messrs. R. Wilkin and Co.'s stores, they being the agent*, for Canterbury, and any machines sent in> will be converted.