Sleigh-Bells | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 5, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 10.

Sleigh-Bells.

The making of sleigh-bells is quite an art. The little iron ball is too big to be put in through the holes in the bell, and yet it is inside. How did it get there? The little iron ball is called “the jinglet.” When you shake the sleigh-bell it jingles. In making the bell, this jinglet is put inside a little ball of mud, just the shape of the inside of the bell. Then a mould is made, just the shape of the outside of the bell. This mud ball, with the jinglet inside, is placed in the mould of the outside, and the metal is poured in, which fills up the space between the ball and the mould. When the mould is taken off, you see a sleigh-bell, but it will not ring, as it is full of dirt. The hot metal dries the dirt that the bell is made of, so it can be shaken out. After the dirt is all shaken out of the holes in the bell, the little iron jinglet will still be in the bell, and will ring. It took a good many years to think how to make a sleigh-bell.