Report on a standard wire gauge

✍ Scribed by T. Egleston; Wm. Metcalf; Jos.D. Weeks

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1878
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 353 KB
• Volume: 105
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(78)90417-9

✦ Synopsis

Standard Wire (lunge. 103 per minute, dividing the coins into three classes, while the Seyss machine will weigh 80 pieces, dividing them into the same number of classes.

By the introduction and use of the Seyss machine, the separate weighing of the silver coin will be accomplished, thereby preventing any silver coin passing from the Mint which shall not be within the legal allowance, viz., 1½ grains light or heavy on each piece. The large number of silver pieces annually struck has heretofore prevented the weighing of single pieces, but with the aid of a suitlcient number of the Seyss machines it is thought this can be done. The capacity of this machine, as compared with the amount of work that can be accomplished by one person, is as one to five ; therefore the machine, attended by one person, will perform, in a given time, the same amount of work that would, by the use of the ordinary balance, require the services of five.