Identifier: hardwaremerjanjun1898toro (find matches)
Title: Hardware merchandising January-June 1898
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Hardware industry Hardware Implements, utensils, etc Building
Publisher: Toronto :
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
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aultily faultless. THE FIRST WEED FILE-CUTTING MACHINE. While the millions of the Whipple Company were being lost,their chief draughtsman was differing from them, and quietly work- depends as much on the regularity of the temperature at which it ishardened as on the irregularity of the teeth. The ideal fuel isone with which the heat of the furnace can be controlled to thethousandth part of a degree. Besides the temptations offered bythis fuel, Mr. Weed had a few other ideas to patent, which are nowincorporated in the great factory of the Arcade works. To see the Arcade File Works from the outside one mightimagine that the Arcadian days of hand file cutting had neverpassed away. An electric car runs up to the doorway of the longbrick buildings, which stand on the outskirts of the town of Ander-son. A belt of woods stretches away to the east, and the work-mens neat frame cottages, each with a lawn and garden, borderthe street car line for half a mile. No file cutters sit at the windows,
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Stripping Shop ing out some ideas of his own. At the first opportunity he went toEurope and studied the hand file cutting works of all lands andthe samples of files, ancient and modern, in the museums. Hisaim was to construct a machine that would reproduce, as perfectlyas possible, the action of the human arm and hand. He perfectedhis apparatus and began to build a machine in Philadelphia. Sogreat was the advance made over all previous inventions of thekind that file-makers everywhere bought the machine and beganto introduce the machine-cut file. Mr. Weed then sold the rightto manufacture his invention to a large eastern manufacturer, andretired from business. He might have been retired yet and had more time to shoot biggame on his ranch in Wyoming, where he spends his vacations,had not natural gas been struck in Indiana. The virtue of the file and only curly headed children look out on the flower beds, andwomen gather vegetables for dinner from the little gardens. Thefathers and brot

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