Crockery & glass journal . 35. The Machine that Revolutionized Bottle-Making ^€ ONE of the most wonderful pieces of machinery inthe world is the Owens bottle making idea of the amount of labor it saves may begained from a statement of facts concerning it. Eachmachine costs about $7,loo to build and has a capa-city of 23 bottles per minute The labor cost of blow-ing bottles by the old method is $ per gross; thecost by the Owens machine method is four cents pergross, and each bottle is absolutely perfect and ofexact weight and capacity—an impossible result byany other known meth
Crockery & glass journal . 35. The Machine that Revolutionized Bottle-Making ^€ ONE of the most wonderful pieces of machinery inthe world is the Owens bottle making idea of the amount of labor it saves may begained from a statement of facts concerning it. Eachmachine costs about $7,loo to build and has a capa-city of 23 bottles per minute The labor cost of blow-ing bottles by the old method is $ per gross; thecost by the Owens machine method is four cents pergross, and each bottle is absolutely perfect and ofexact weight and capacity—an impossible result byany other known method. The advantage of the machine-made bottle overthe blown bottle lies in this uniformity of size andweight. Every bottle turned out by the machine islike every other bottle which it turns out. For thisreason the trade is showing a decided preference forthe machine-made bottle, and it is freely predictedthat within a few years the old method will be en-tirely abandoned. This is indicated by the wonder-ful success of the Ow
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