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Show ; UP-TO-DATE CI1IN0S TONES. Mad With 1111 llrli.e N" "it " 1 j Other Modern I n.pnitenaest. , j "If." said n dealer In such things. 1 "anybody had told our grandfathers I 1 Hint the time would come when w ) should have ball b-arlng grindstone ( j I suppose they would hsve thought he . I was ciary; hut e h ue lh. m now and j 1 they me not ve.y iie-lly. i lltier. If th j g. '.mistime Is one I liat l worker; with j a treadle there me hull bearings on j the eiank. win re the tirmll rod I connected, ns well as ou the ihaft on i which the grindstone turns. It.ally. 1 is a pleasure to see that h' mely old tool, the grindstone, mounted on bill bearings, and II Is positive d .light f) see how easily eilch a grindstone turns. Hut the ball IiiihIiiks are not the only I modern Improvement In grindstone 1 equipment. There are nowaday a grllld-i grllld-i atone frames and ntt u binen's that ar I patented. The old. old way of tinning a grindstone was with a crank, or a I single treadle; but nowadays we hav ! aiimle trendies, on" for each fisit. and j the fisme thnt support the grindstone ! haa in on one end i f It n seal like you ' see on a mowing machine or anything of that sort, this being by no means I a devli e for a lay man. but a convenient conven-ient mc ins of enabling the man using the grindstone to get at It to tho best advantage, if you. knowing the grindstone grind-stone of nnclent times, will plctur to yourself a man sitting In a comfortable comfort-able seat so placed on th end of th frame thnt he can get square at th fnco of the stone, which be turn by means of two treadles, ono under each foot, tho stone Itself turning on ball bearings throughout, a grindstone yet distinctly mcKlernlied, you will get some Idea of tho difference between '.h old grindstone and the new. Detroit Free Tress. |
