Splints

Examples

• It requires several ship loads of wood to supply the requirements of Lucifer-match makers; and ingenious contrivances have been patented for cutting it up into splints of the proper size. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The splint machines were for slitting a block of wood of the proper height downward nearly the whole way into match splints, leaving their butts in the solid wood. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• After staying there twenty-four hours, the trainmen made snowshoes of fence-rail splints and started out to find food, which they did about a half mile away. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The simplest form and most effective sweeper comprises a large cylinder armed with spiral rows of splints and hung diagonally on the under side and across a frame having two or four wheels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Others for making splints and the matches separately, quickly followed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The splints are collected into bundles of one thousand, and each end having been dipped into melted sulphur, they are divided in the middle by a circular saw. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Thus in 1842 Reuben Partridge of America patented a machine for making splints. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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