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Show ' when we take as a basis of figuring a statement from Van Nordcn's Magazine Maga-zine in August of last year, which states that $1,000,000,000 a year Is spent in advertising, which Is approximately approxi-mately 7 per cent of the business dono in this country last year, or rather it costs 7 per cent for advertising to sell our products. By the uso of this machine ma-chine and kindred machines along the same line which Mr. Molyneux is now completing, this cost of advertising will he greatly reduced.' and therefore the cost of the product to the consumer con-sumer will be reduced, which makes : Mr Molyneux's machine a God-send to the public. Mr. Molyneux is a small, nervous, quick-eyed man of Ihigenot descent, inheriting Inventive talent from a long line of creative Normans, one of whom I ricised the compensating balance in I watches. The usual discouragements and setbacks which all end the creation crea-tion of things new havo? been with him, but today his name is blessed by -nany and fortune smiles upon him. Curiously enough, his attention was first called to the need of some automatic auto-matic mailing machlnd on account of the great number of postage stamps received in payment for merchandise, which accumulated in the treasury of the large mail order ho.iscs, and which Ihe former were forced to sell at a discount. A congressional commit! was at the time investigating the question in order to find some suitable mail order currency, and Molyneux, who was then perfecting a mail sorting sort-ing machine, began to design what Is today known as the Molyueux automatic auto-matic envelope, enclosing machine. In' the near future, when this machine Is offered to the public, in whatever form it may be offered, great results are looked for, not only from the big manufacture, but its uso reduces the cost to such an extent that the smaTT dealer will be able to place In the consumers' hands news pertaining to his products, which he has not been able to do In the past. The American people most assuredly assured-ly do owe this wonderful man a great debt, and no doubt will look upon his future experiments along similar lines with great interest. MECHANICAL FINGERS. Barton S. Molyneux Invents a Machine Ma-chine Which Has Nearly Human Hu-man Fingers. Much space has been given of recent re-cent date in tho American press to In ventions, the larger portion of which have been improvements along given lines. It has often been said that the time was not. far off .when men would invent machines to practically bring back life. An article was written recently re-cently on an invention in which the Inventor claimed that for a cost of $10,000,000 a series of reflectors could be so set as to make night Into day. We could go on telling of many wonderful won-derful things that .ire being created : dally by the hands of men, but we will not do so, as the intention of this article Is to convey to the reader that everlastingly sticking to a project will assure its success. Some seven years ago Mr. Barton S. Molyneux of Buffalo,' N. Y.( was possessed pos-sessed of the idea that the greatest need in 'this country today commercially commer-cially was a machine for proper handling han-dling of mall. Ho went to work on the subject and within the month a private exhibition of what he has accomplished ac-complished was shown in his labora-I labora-I tory at Buffalo. He has created a machine known as the Molyneux Automatic Envelope Enclosing En-closing Machine. This machine is arranged ar-ranged to pick up circulars, fold them, address them, stamp them, seal them and count them. One cannot but btt impressed when looking at the ma-1 chine in operation as to how many ; hours of worry and study was re- j quired to accomplish this most won-1 dcrful feat. The machine resembles a large steel table, on one end of which are arranged six compartments, i which are for six piles of different circular maimer. Six hands working ; mechanically pick up a circular from each and lay them in six piles on the movable table just back of the main table. When the six hands pick an j other set of six different circulars, the side section of the table moves over I one, the six hands come back and lay down on top of the previous six piles an additional circular, making six piles, and so on until the first pile nearest the macolne proper contains con-tains six different circulars, and each. of . the other piles contains five, four, three, two and one circular. In this automatic way the six sets of circulars circu-lars are assorted out. by the so-called fingers and are placed on the movable table in proper form and position to be put in an envelope. Another so-called so-called hand tages thd first pile ou the end of the machine and lifts It up ready to insert into an envelope. The next move is on envelope opener, which lifts up and opens the flap and separates the envelope, which naturally natu-rally lays very fiat? then the hand that picked up the pile of -six circulars circu-lars moves along one. The next move is the insertion of the circulars into the envelope; the next move that the machine makes is the convejing of the envelope around the side of a ejlinder, where two separate attachments attach-ments are connected, one for inserting the' flap and the other a sealing device. de-vice. If it is required that the flap he inserted for one-cent, postage, another an-other hand protrudes and pusnes down the flap inside the envelope; if it - desired to seal the euvelope, this attachment at-tachment Is removed from the machine ma-chine before It Is started, ami the second sec-ond device is brought Into action, which includes a movable sponge for the first move, which rubs algug the paste on the flap, and tho next move is a double move. First a hand bend- ed over the flap of the envelope closes some, and the second, a compressor, to push the same tight Right here It is w-ell to remember that by the uso of this machine envelopes are properly sealed, which is much more than can be said of those we seal by hand. After Af-ter the above operation the envelope is conveyed around further along Ihe ejlinder and a compartment containing contain-ing the desired addresses overhead drops an address into place, and the type is properly rubbed by a little inker, and on the final move It is compressed com-pressed aalnst the envelope, addressing address-ing the same, the type being conveyed in a carrier automatically back into the pile of used addresses. The next operation that the envelope goes through is to be "licked" on the corner cor-ner by an automatic sponge piepara-tory piepara-tory for putting on the stamp, and nt this point it may be well to state that Uncle Sam has consented to give the Molyneux system bt rip stamps in large quantities. These stamps come down through a compartment, and with each move of the machine one stamp is set in place and a small air compressor closes up against it and pushes it aeainst the portion of the envelope thai has been previoiibly "licked " The stamp is then properly placed on Ihe envelope. The next move the envelope makes around the cylinder is to come to an opening where it passes against a little catch and is counted and slips either into an open compartment or ito a United Stales mailing pouch, for which an attachment is provided, thereby taking the envelopes and circulars cir-culars from their crude state and delivering de-livering them to Uncle Sam without the loach of a human finser. If one could only stand and watch these fingers fin-gers work, the title of this article would be better appreciated, as they all seem to have absolute feeling, they are so accurate in performing the duty ! requited of them, and one cannot help j but be Impressed with the fact that he is proud that he. is a man. because j it was a man. Barton C. Molyneux. who created this wonderful machine. The entire machine is run bv electricity. elec-tricity. What This Machine Means Commercially. This machine will handle 4 000 envelopes en-velopes an hour, or la oilier words will handle the work of 100 girls. Can anybody question its commercial value |