{"id":25,"date":"2005-12-03T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wckelsey.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2005-12-08T23:40:29","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T04:40:29","slug":"the-tobacco-tying-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wckelsey.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"The Tobacco Tying Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tobacco tying machine played a significant role in the mechanization of the tobacco industry, and Bill played a small but important part in its development. Up until its invention tobacco was tied onto sticks by very skilled (and very fast!) women. It was hard, back-breaking work, and for many years numerous people had tried and failed to come up with an automated solution.<\/p>\n

There is more to the story of how the tobacco tying machine came into being. I will elaborate a bit later.<\/p>\n

Click on the picture for a larger view<\/font>
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A high resolution TIF file (13 Meg) of this image can be downloaded from here.<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

The tying machine was based on a regular sewing machine – complete with needle, looper and thread. The main difference is that the needle was very large (about 8″ long and 1\/4″ in diameter), the thread actually heavy duty rayon twine, and the looper very large.<\/p>\n

Bill shot a short 16mm film of the tying machine that he designed being used on a farm in 1962.<\/p>\n

Click on the picture to watch the video<\/font>
\"Tobacco<\/a><\/p>\n

The machine in the picture at the top of this page was a special machine built for the Imperial Tobacco Company. The image was taken in the Reynolds tobacco factory in Delhi, Ontario.<\/p>\n

As always, if anyone has more details or information about the TTC tying machine and the role Bill played in its development, please post a message with details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tobacco tying machine played a significant role in the mechanization of the tobacco industry, and Bill played a small but important part in its development. Up until its invention tobacco was tied onto sticks by very skilled (and very fast!) women. It was hard, back-breaking work, and for many years numerous people had tried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","category-kelsey-manufacturing","category-front-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wckelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wckelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wckelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wckelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wckelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wckelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wckelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wckelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wckelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}