Commemorative photo at the factory · Female workers wearing kimonos (1924)
Toyo toothpick company.
Toyo toothpick Co., Ltd. exhibited round toothpicks to the industrial materials exhibition organized by the Mie prefecture commodity display station. However, depending on the reason and the rareness of the flat tooth picks imported from the United States from around 1923 begun to share the market. The dealers in Kawachinagano, a sales company whose sales began to decline, strongly requested to make flat toothpick that cannot be defeated by America. Looking at the products of developed countries, the future toothpicks felt the mind of production with machines
Y. Inaba asked the Mie prefecture commodity display station (later trade pavilion) to investigate its manufacturing machinery.
What I was surprised at was using white birch wood. The spicebushes used in Japan are the thickness of the thumb, and Utsugi is the thickness of the arm position, so manual work becomes inevitable by all means. If it is a thick log, the mechanization can proceed. The amount that can be done is completely different. He often told my brothers of my grandchild that it would take the capital of the small bank in Mie prefecture to buy a machine with full set. Because of the high price of the machine fee, he requested a loan to the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce.
Since I cannot listen to that wish, I will certainly buy some machines at Toyo toothpick company. (See photo: 1. Machine that scrapes both ends of a thin banded plate 2. Machine that punches the cut board with die
Stripping machine
Cutter of both side of flat toothpicks
Cutter of both sides of timber.
Punching machine.
The newspaper that reports the importation of machines from U.S.A.
Wooden pulley
Woven belt
Punching molds.