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Capacity: 550,000 Magazines a Day I
It takes fourteen and a half acres of space,
spread over eight floors of the Curtis Building, to
accommodate the machinery for manufacturing The
Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post
and The Country Gentleman.
Making twelve million magazines a month and
delivering them for distribution, in all parts of the
county, on schedule time, involve the closest kind
of intelligent study.
Seventeen hundred people are employed in the
manufacturing department.
There are a hundred and fourteen high-speed
rotary presses.
Included in the Post press equipment are four
teen presses, each with a capacity for printing and
folding forty-eight pages, and required to operate day
and night in order to produce the editions of the Post.
Eleven automatic insetting and stitching ma
chines are constantly engaged to complete the Post
for delivery.
There is a battery of seventeen unique presses,
which at one operation produce the beautiful four
color pages of the Home Journal.
The section printing the covers for the Post and
Country Gentleman and all color insert pages
embraces twelve presses, especially designed. jThese
print two colors on each side of the sheet as it goes
through. '
Many of the machines in the Manufacturing
Department were especially -'esigned to meet the
exacting requirements of printing the vast editions
demanded by the Curtis circulation.
New methods and machines are being planned
constantly.
Under the direction of a committee selected for
the purpose, every means is used to safeguard the
employees who operate the machines.
Each machine is run by its individual motor,
thus avoiding the use of dangerous and unsightly
shafting or belting.
All trimming machinery in the bindery division
is equipped with suction pipes for automatically
removing the waste paper into fireproof vaults in the
basement, where the paper is baled and discharged
from the building every day.
On each floor are ducts that carry oily rags and
inflammable material to other fire-proof vaults, thus
preventing fire by spontaneous combustion.
A technical knowledge of printing and machin
ery is quite unnecessary to appreciate the standards
of quality demanded by the Manufacturing Depart
ment. On every business day experienced guides are
at the service of Philadelphians and visitors to the
city who may be interested to see the mechanical
wonders in the Curtis Building, as well as the archi
tectural beauty of the building itself.
THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, 'INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA
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