Cork: Being the story of the origin of cork, the processes employed in its manufacture & its various uses in the world to-dayArmstrong Cork Company
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Cork: Being the story of the origin of cork, the processes employed in its manufacture & its various uses in the world to-day
Armstrong Cork Company
Cork
A host of other useful articles also find their way from the many
manufacturing departments to the shipping rooms. Of insoles thousands
of pairs are produced annually. Discs and washers by the million
are punched out for use in metal caps for bottles and jars, and as
gaskets in lubricator cups. Life-preservers, ring buoys, yacht fenders,
mooring and anchoring buoys are the specialties of one department,
while another pays particular attention to the manufacture of seine
and gill corks, and bobbers for fishing lines. So varied, in fact,
are the forms which cork assumes that the complete cataloguing of
the functions which it fills in the world to-day would be well-nigh
impossible. For instance, cork shapes may be found in animal heads on
rugs and fur garments, and, covered with suitable material, are used
as buttons on fur coats. Cork balls play their part in exhibiting
cutlery and in various games; the automobilist finds cork carburetor
floats indispensable; churn lids are made tight with cork gaskets;
pen holders have cork tips; hats are lined with thin sheets of cork;
friction clutches of cork are steadily growing in favor; the optician
employs small cork strips in connection with eyeglasses; the plasterer
uses cork floats; while the glass manufacturer knows no better medium
for polishing his wares than cork wheels. The finest pieces of bark
are made into cork paper, so thin that five hundred sheets measure but
one inch in thickness. Sorted into several different grades, this
beautiful, velvety material is practically all used in making cigarette
tips. Fishing rod, whip, bicycle, trowel, and pyrographic instrument
handles of cork are, of course, familiar to every one.
[Illustration:
Straight Wine Corks]
[Illustration:
Straight Soda Corks, D Grade]
[Illustration:
Granulated Cork]
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