American Patent Machinery.

Manawatu Herald, 9 March 1899, Page 3

American Patent Machinery.

— ♦ Mr F. Frank-, well known in the printing trnde. in Sydney, recently undertook a business visit to America '^* and Europe, and has communicau d to the Australian press some im i pressions of the progress of invention in both countries, from which wo take a few extracts. He has seen many improvements in the printing machinery world, more particularly emanating from America. Much of thia new class of machinery is now sy' being introduced and used in London and the provincial cities by the news paper proprietors and printers. Outside this trade Mr Franks took a keen interest in the butter xmking machine, the " Radiator." This is manufactured in Stockholm, and Mr T. Nordenfeldc (the inventor of the r ' great guns) is associated with it. The machine is much used in I Sweden and Denmark, as well as in England and Ireland, and is creating immense interest among dairymen. With it : they can make milk into butter at the rate of 250 to 400 gallons per hour. Mr Franks has taken up the representation in Australasia of the 11 Dey" Time Recorded, a little machine for use in a warehouse or workshop to record the time employes come and go. It is made for 50, 100, 150 and 200 employes. The talking machines of America much interested Mr Franks, as they ere greatly used for commercial purposes in offices were much correspondence is to be done. The principal dictates his letters quietly in his office, or at home, and then sends the cylindera to the typewriter who immediately has the letters repeated to her by placing the cylinder on another machine and inserting the tubes in to her ear.s. She can thus rattle the work off by the typewriter. Should the record be running too quickly for her to follow Bhe can stop or regulate the machine, and the cylinders can be shaven and used any number of times. Then the number of machines one sees in \merica.on the principle of the ki nickle in the Blot " is wonderful. There are great show rooms of these in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San. Francisco, and other large cities. These ro^nn are highly decorated, and made very aitrac ive with electric lighting. Not only theae rooms talking and singing machines but also scenic view--. But the most wonderful of all is a banj i played by two steel hnnd- 3 , with screws at the top of the machine regulating the tune if the string, thus making a three hindr-d banj > The result is very clever and entertaining.