WIRE WRAPPING OR COVERING MACHINE. The accompanying drawing shows a side elevation of a wire covering machine recently patented by Mr. Charles Conner of Ashtabula 0. The reel C on which the rib upon which is also journaled the cog wheel B upon one held the bent rod A' to which are attached the ribbon ten sion plate C' the guide plates and friction rollers. The cog wheel B meshes with the cog wheel B' arranged upon with a cog wheel upon one end of the shaft 0'. The beveled cog wheel P is normally keyed to the shaft but may be easily loosened. The cog wheel P' meshes with the wheel Q' and upon the other end of the shaft 0' is the large cog wheel N which meshes with the cog wheel M on the shaft K that communicates motion through the belt J to the winding drum H so that when the wheel P is unkeyed from its shaft and power is applied to the shown to the cord 9 which passes over the bangers beneath the table and carries the pulley X and a friction wheel bearing against the wheel 8. A cord leading from this pulley to a pulley on the side of the reel revolves the latter when ribbon is to be wound upon it. It is a law of light that in passing from one substance to another possessing a different power of refraction a portion of it is always reflected. Hence when light falls upon a transparent solid mixed with air at each passage of the light from the air to the solid and from the solid to the air a portion of it is reflected; and in the case of a powder this reflection occurs so frequently that the passage of the light is practically cut off. Thus from the mixture of two per fectly transparent substances we obtain an opaque one; from the intimate mixture of air and water we obtain foam; clouds and snow owe their opacity to the same principle; as also does the whiteness of crushed diamonds salt glass and many other substances which are transparent before the pressure is applied to them. Ice being therefore opaque and white in proportion to the amount of air it contains at the
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