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. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
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. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
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. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
Others for making splints and the matches separately, quickly followed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
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. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
Thus in 1842 Reuben Partridge of America patented a machine for making splints. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.