. Gleanings in bee culture. we have several times ex-plained heretofore, by a rocking motion of thetool the points are made to press the wiredown into the wax. Of course, the waxmust be warm enough so that the wire willsink readily. Our friend Oliver Foster sentus an implement some little time ago on thesame plan, only the strip holding the pointswas on a straight line instead of a does the work nicely, but it needs apretty powerful pressure to sink the pointsall in at once; while with the machine shownabove, a small girl can do it readily withoutmuch fatigue. Our next implement is
. Gleanings in bee culture. we have several times ex-plained heretofore, by a rocking motion of thetool the points are made to press the wiredown into the wax. Of course, the waxmust be warm enough so that the wire willsink readily. Our friend Oliver Foster sentus an implement some little time ago on thesame plan, only the strip holding the pointswas on a straight line instead of a does the work nicely, but it needs apretty powerful pressure to sink the pointsall in at once; while with the machine shownabove, a small girl can do it readily withoutmuch fatigue. Our next implement is a machine devisedby Mr. Gray, and is an improvement on theClark fastener. It came about in this way :One of the friends sent us a machine to beworked with two treadles, which did thework so nicely that I paid some ten or tifteendollars for the privilege of making them for sale. Before we got to making them, how-ever, Mr. Gray said he thought one treadlecould be made to do the work, therefore wehave the machine shown below :. GRA\ S MACniNE FOR FASTENING FDN. INTO SI C-TIONS. To understand this you will need to re-member that the block A slides in a groove,and is drawn back by a coiled spring E. Touse it, lay on a section as shown in the cut ;put your foot on the treadle until the hard-wood block comes down on to the edge ofthe fdn., mashing it firmly into the will observe, that the treadle is madeof a hard piece of wood, cut out in such away as to form a forked treadle, as it were—one piece holding the block that fastens inthe fdn., and the other piece being pivotedso that, when the treadle is moved farenough, it strikes the sliding block A. andpushes the section and all clear out of themachine ; in fact, the sections can be madeto drop into a basket so as to save the timeof the operator. This movement of pushingthe section out from under the hard-woodblock has the effect of bringing the up, just as we want it; and whenthe machine is adjusted properly, t
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