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Grape-Nuts Packing Room.

The paper packages are set up and the bottom sealed by the automatic machines on the floor above, as shown on page 14. They are carried down a shute to an endless belt that conveys the packages to an automatic filler that fills the package with Grape-Nuts; the same belt carries the filled packages to the round sealing machines shown in the foreground of the above illustration. These machines tuck the flaps and seal the tops air tight. The machine then revolves around to an opening, where the packages are dropped on another endless belt, which carries them to a long row of girls, who lift them off and place the packages in wooden cases. These cases are then placed on an endless carrier and conveyed to automatic nailing machines, where in two operations the lid is firmly nailed on and the case ready for shipment to any part of the world.

appeals strongly, for the old coffee can be left off at once, and the Postum Food Coffee, made as it should be made, furnishes a delicious beverage, pure in food value, with a deep, rich brown color which is quickly changed to a golden brown by the addition of a little cream, and with a crisp coffee flavor satisfying both palate and nerves.

One end of Grape-Nuts Packing Room.

The row of girls to the right are placing the Grape-Nuts Recipe Book and “The Road to Wellville” booklet in the small envelope that is sealed on top of the package. The girls in the centre of room take the packages from the moving belt and put them in the wooden shipping boxes. The centre carrier shows the packed boxes traveling to the automatic nailing machine, where the top of the cases is nailed on.

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