From the blenders the mass is fed into tablet-forming machines on the third floor. To each tablet a pressure of 14,000 pounds is applied, giving it a china-like hardness.

After the mints are formed, they are passed on to wrapping and packaging machines, also on the third floor. It took eight years to develop these machines. but now, it is believed, they are as nearly perfect as human skill can make them. Each machine wraps and labels an average of 1000 boxes a day, running at a speed of thirty-five to forty rolls a minute. These machines receive into their hoppers mints in bulk direct from the tablet-forming machines. A device turns them on edge and assembles them in rows of fourteen each. Then each group of fourteen is gripped by steel fingers which carry them on to a piece of tin foil which has been cut to the desired length from a big spool of foil beneath the machine. The tin foil is then spun around the candy, and the ends are twisted.