The Iron Age 1908-06-18: Vol 81 Iss 25

THE IRON AGE Published every ‘Thursday Morning by David Williams Co. 14-16 Park Place, New York. Vol. 81: No 25. New York, Thursday, June 18, 1908, _ $8.00 a Year, including Postage. 9 Single Copies, 15 Cents. Reading Matter Contents page 1986 | — — eee Alphabetical Index to Advertisers ‘ 197 || , Classified List of Advertisers “ 187 || ZOR, Advertising and Subscription Rates ‘‘ 196 || REED F. BLAIR & C0.) “Lutoloading Rifk PRICK BUILDING, PITTSBURG, PA. STANDARD CONNBLLSVILLE Comparison Invited FOUNDRY PURNACE CRUSHED WE want each buyer in America, whether he has a thorough knowledge of fire arms or not, tocompare point by point the new Remington Autoloading Rifle with any other competing gun in the market. A comparison will mean a substantial order Ropes and Twines for these new rifles if you sell in a big game market. 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THE IRON AGE New York, Thursday, June 18, 1908. A Modern Wood Working Machinery Factory. The Rochester Works of the American Wood Working Machinery Company. BY H. R. COBLEIGH, (With Supplement.) ‘The largest plant of the largest manufacturer in its Machine Company, Ltd., Hoyt & Bros. Company, Levi like is that of the American Wood Working Machinery Houstan Company, Globe Machine Company, Lehman Company, in Rochester, N. Y. In its functions it is com- Miuchine Company, Milwaukee Sander Mfg. Company, plete, being independent of outside sources for all except Cc. B. Rogers & Co., Rawley & Hermance Company, raw materials. Given transportation facilities, and it is Williamsport Machine Company, and the Young Bros. excellently located for these on the New York Central & Company. When the consolidation was first made the m River Railroad, and it is self-reliant for the company was operating twelve factories, and, while it aving even its own foundry and power plant. had the advantage of a centralized selling force, it did Aiuoug the noteworthy general features are the arrange- not have the efficient producing organization that has Hose House[_ | A INDICATES THE POSITION OF CAMERA AND DIRECTION POINTED IN TAKING * ) THE VARIOUS VIEWS. \ THE NUMBER IN THE CIRCLE IS THE FIGURE NUMBER. TESTING FLOOR 1C-TON CRANE SMALL MACHINE 4) —<—{10) ERECTING FLOOR RESERVOIR 48 x 47/ DRILLS SHAPERS HOSE MOUSE ENGINE BORING MILLS ROOM ‘ ‘ BOILER ROOM | 4a’x 60’ TING FLOOR | STOCK ROOM — BiPE TUNNEL SHOP MACHINE MOULDING a [Pipe TONNEC) —eeEEE ELEVATOR @6 x 150 HEAVY' ERE TOOL | ROOM MACHINE ~ BLACK- SMITH SHOP MILLING 43/x 52’ MACHINES ay | MAIN AISLE: @50-TON COAL STORAGE | PROPERTY LINE SAN FOUNDRY SUPPLY STORAGE DEPARTMENT room| | S4sT | os 5-TON CRANE CLEAN (ND | ot 4 PIPE TUNNEL LAVATORIES TURRET LATHE DEPARTMENT PLANER DEPARTMENT RPENTER| SHOP 1st FLOOR PATTERN SHOP end FLOOR 60/|x 120° ~® CASTING STORAGE EIGHT 2-TON HAND TRAVELERS ON SUB TRACK PATTERN STORAGE x 104’ Leesa [nose wouse AVENUE Plan of the Rochester, N. Y., \ the American Wood Working Machinery Company. ment of the buildings and the intercommunication convenient and economical manufacture, and the dispo tion and extensiveness of the equipment in the machi ‘or, since been developed. The factories are now i- ‘ited in six, located where they are approximately most mvenient to the territories that create the greatest de- concen- shop which are important to the same end. Before taking up in detail the description of these works it may be interesting to give a little concerning the company as a whole, Organization, The American Wood Working Machinery Company was incorporated September 30, 1901, as the successo by purchase to the F. H. Clement Company, Glen Cc ynand for the products in which each specializes. } The Rochester Works combine what were formerly uy H. Clement Company, Glen Cove Machine Com- p nd C. B. Rogers Company branches. The R. & HW rks, at Williamsport, Pa., combine the Rawley & if ice Company and the Lehman Machine Company ae ss. The Williamsport Works, also in Williams- ort, %., combine the Williamsport Machine Company 1922 THE and the Young Bros. Company branches. The Houstan Works, at Montgomery, Pa., were formerly those of the Levi Houstan Company, now one of the branches. The Sander Works, at Green Bay, Wis., were formerly known as the Milwaukee Sander Mfg. Company, and the Hoyt Works, at Aurora, Ill., combine the Hoyt & Bros. Com- pany and the Globe Machine Company branches. The executive offices of the company were removed over a year ago from New York to the Rochester Works. The officers are J. E. McKelvey, president; Gen. Hiram Dur- yea, vice-president; A. N. Arms, secretary-treasurer, and F. H. Clement, chief of construction and manager of the Rochester Works, to whom credit is principally due for the mechanical features of the new plant at Rochester. Among these six factories the work has been reas- signed to some extent so as to avoid duplication and promote specialization to secure the well recognized benefits that attend that method of manufacture. For example, the Rochester branch specializes in heavy plan- ing mill and furniture machinery and pattern shop ma- chinery to a certain extent; the R. & H. branch makes molders and the heavier sash, door and blind machinery ; the Houstan branch, molders and lighter sash, door and blind machinery; the Williamsport branch, band saws and sawing machinery; the Sander branch, triple-drum sanders exclusively, and the Hoyt branch, heavy planing mill machinery. In the Rochester works a distinct line is drawn between heavy planing mill machinery and fur- niture machinery ; each department has its own machine tool equipment and forces of workmen, and except in emergencies the two are practically distinct factories. Bulldings. The plant occupies about 10 acres on Lyell avenue, on the western boundary line of the city. The buildings, eizht in number, are shown in relation to one another in the plan view, Fig. 1, and as may be seen are arranged so that the progress of the work through the plant is continuous from the drafting room in the main office, when it is a new machine that is being built, or the pattern shop, for all standard machines, to the shipping department at the rear of the machine and erecting shops. The main office is the logical beginning and ending of a trip through the works, and yet is centrally located, so that all departments of the plant may be reached by the most direct line from this point. The buildings, mentioned in the order which will be adhered to in the description which follows, are the main office, carpenter and pattern shop, pattern storage, flask stor- age, foundry, foundry supply storage, blacksmith shop and power house, and the machine shop. All of the buildings are of brick, except the flask storage, and, with the exception of the foundry, power house and blacksmith shop, which are essentially fireproof build- ings, all buildings are provided with automatic sprinkler systems for protection against fire. The machine shop, power’ house, foundry and supply house are of steel frame construction, reinforced by concrete and brick. Points to be noted are that all of the buildings are capable of extension with growth, and are connected by an interworks railway system which communicates with crane or trolley service in the principal buildings. Spurs from the railroad facilitate the receiving and shipping of freight. One passes between the foundry supply storage and the power plant, over which are brought the sand, coke, pig iron, &e., for the foundry, and the coal for the boiler room. Two spurs pass, one into and the other along the end of the machine shop building, where the shipping department is located, and from which the heavy ma- chines can be loaded by crane direct into cars. The buildings are heated by a steam heating system, supplied with exhaust steam from the engines and auxy iliaries in the power plant. When the available exhaust steam is insufficient make-up live steam is supplied 0 the system through reducing valves. This covers em@r- gencies such as a shut-down of the engines. In all there is a total of some 32,000 sq. ft. of radiation. The . tem is proportioned to heat all buildings to a temperature of 62 degrees, with the exception of the pattern gshop and the office buildings, which are heated to 70 deggrees. IRON June 18, 1908 AGE The Paul vacuum system is used and maintains an ever- age of 12 in. of vacuum on the radiators and coils. The heating system supply lines are carried from the power plant to the different buildings through tunnels which are indicated in the plan Fig. 1. These are concrete conduits 5 ft. sq. in section, and also allow underground distribution of electric current fqr lighting and power in the different buildings. Main Office. ’be office building is 50:x 104 ft., two stories high. The first floor contains the works offices as well as the offices of the purchasing agent, chief of construction, SU- perintendent, and the general engineering department, including the drafting room. The second floor is occupied by the executive offices. The basement of this building has fireproof vaults for valuable papers and other ‘\mat- ters, and also affords storage space for circulars and printed matter and an emergency hospital room, where accidents and illnesses of employees are treated. The key to this room is kept in the main office. In charge of the work is an employee ordinarily éngaged in the millwright department, who has had experience as a trained nurse. He is assisted in his hospital work by other employees in each department, there being a staff of about six in all. The equipment includes that neces- sary for first aid to the injured, such as a cot, stretcher, medicines, liniments, bandages, &c. Serious cases are always turned over to a competent physician having an office nearby. Pattern Shop. The building to the east of the office is a two-story building, 60 x 120 ft., containing on the first floor the carpenter shop, where flasks are made and repaired and boxes and crates constructed. The second floor is the pattern shop, a view in which is given in Fig. 2. This view indicates something of the well-lighted condition of the interior. ‘The benches are arranged near the win- dows and the machines in the center of the room. The tool equipment includes a hand-feed upright drill, a sur- facer, a 20-in. buzz planer, a 32-in. 16-ft. bed pattern- maker’s*lathe, 20 in. x 8 ft. patternmaker’s lathe, a 36- in. band saw, a double saw bench, a universal saw beuch, and a speed lathe, all of the company’s own make, and a grindstone, and a 30-in. Boston blower for the dust exhausting system. A 15-hp. Rochester moto’ drives all of the foregoing. There are also six Fox bio. trimmers and two embossing presses for making ~ © . oles are nating plates for patterns. The movable work in cual all of the same hight, and two or more ¢9” together end to end or side to side °-*“ wecured to one another with cleats, to give as ‘@Tse 4 quafinmons table area as may be needed “4 bridge connects the pattern shop with the pattern storage. ane Pattern Storage. The pattern 4torage is a 60 x 120 ft.,two-story building. As shown ir the view given in Fig. 3, the patterns are stored on selves supported on iron columns made of gas pipe. Att«ched to the columns are cast iron brackets for supportin2 the shelves, as clearly shown in the illustra- tion. ‘Te racks have the advantage that the shelves can be Adjusted vertically, and also, if rearrangement in the pattern storage department becomes desirable, the columfs themselves can be easily moved to change the location of any given tier of shelves. The Foundry Department. Immediately south of the pattern shop and pattern storage is the foundry, with the flask storage on one side and the foundry supply storage on the other. The flask storage is a building 32 x 160 ft., in which are / stored the wood and iron flasks used in the foundry. Although this building is of wood it is so isolated that it would not be likely to take fire and could not com- municate it nor do any very serious damage. The foun- dry supply storage, a 25 x 150 ft. building, holds the stock of iron, coke, sand, coal, wood, &c. It is somewhat un- usual to have all of the stores under cover, but the ad- vantages of it can readily be appreciated. Two interior views in the foundry are given in Figs. 6 and 7. This building is 111 x 195 ft., and has brick walls and a reinforced concrete roof, supported by steel o * y ee a ee ee mY a . ee im Te ee : Ft TTI D — senate oie ae Looking South in the Machine Shop. Planer Section on the Right. w= of a aL. - The LD - + “ ig. 10. Universal Saw Bench Assembling. ‘ig. 11. Planer and Matcher and Timber Sizer Floor, ig. 12. Surfacer Erecting Floor. ‘ig. 13. Jointer Erecting Floor. a SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRON AGE, JUNE 18, 1908 The Pattern Shop. ‘ig. 3. The Pattern Storage. The Blacksmith Shop. ‘ig.5. The Engine Room. af 4s —s Fig. 6. The Foundry, Showing the Cupolas, Sand Room and Core Department. VIEWS IN THE ROCHESTER, N. Y., WORKS OF THE Fig. 7. The Foundry, Showing the Cleaning Room, Sand Blast Room, Small Molding Department, and a Part of the Main Bay. The Erecting Shop in the Main Aisle of the Machine Shop Building. AMERICAN WOOD WORKING MACHINERY COMPANY HONVEE YSALSAHOOY S.ANVdWOD AYANIHOVW ONIMHYOM CGOOM NVOIYSAWNV SHL AO SLONGOYd AWOldAL ‘vl “DIA ‘OURTd [OU-XIS—N ‘4e0vjing v[Sulg—]{ ‘4ezig JequLy, ssoq UBOLeULY—T ‘1equlog; puBFY—yY ‘youeg Meg [esioAlUQ—f fMesoy puRg—] fay] sdoyeuueyYVg—p {aeg purg S Loy RULUIIWRI—H Sue MBG ABI —A ‘AeoRjANgG a[suig—q ‘fyousg MBg afqnod—qq ‘ey ie] paedg yooysprayzy] 10j;0[y—O S1edeyg atpuidg-omp—q ‘f1eonjang eyqnoq, [[OY-xXIg—V tw, June 18, 1908 THE IRON AGE 1923 trusses. In place of the ordinary monitor skylight there are inclined skylights in the roof of both the center and side bays, and ventilation is obtained by roof ventilators controlled by dampers. The illustrations show these features and also the type of heating apparatus in- stalled. The radiators are sectional cast iron heaters, assembled in tiers between the flanges of the channels in the built-up columns. The radiators are thus dis- posed, where they are entirely out of the way and yet well distributed to insure uniform heating. Along the walls below the windows are series of ordinary steam pipe coils. The center bay of the foundry is served by two 5-ton electric cranes and the small molding machine depart- ment by a 4000-lb, floor-controlled crane, all built by the General Pneumatic Tool Company, now the Shepard Elec- tric Crane & Hoist Company. The castings made in this department are mainly small ones, such as gears, bear- ings, caps, brackets, &c. To the north of the bench molding department is the sand blast room, which con- tains an American Diamond sand blast apparatus, fur- nished by Thomas W. Pangborn Company, N. Y. Be- yond this is the cleaning room, which contains five tumblers, two double grinders, and one swing grinder, all driven by a 25-hp. Crocker-Wheeler motor. The small bay on the opposite side of the foundry contains the wash room and lockers, core department, sand room, cupolas, and the blower room. In addition to the large built-in core ovens, which are directly behind the core department, there is an Eli-Millett small core oven. Common forms of cores are made by a motor- driven core machine in the core department. In the sand room, next adjoining, are a Hanna pneumatic screen and a motor-driven sand mixer, made by the Standard Sand Mixer Company. The motor is a 3%-hp. Crocker-Wheeler motor. The two cupolas were furnished by the Whiting Foundry Equipment Company. One is a No. 4, 56 in. in diameter, and the other a No. 7, 72 in. in diameter. The two have a combined capacity of 16 to 19 tons per hour. Blast for the cupolas is furnished by a No. 5% Root blower, driven by a 30-hp. Rochester motor in the blower room, next to the cupolas. This room also contains an Ingersoli-Rand 1214, x 12 in. class B, belt-driven, single- stage compressor, connected to a 42 in. x 8 ft. vertical air receiver and driven by a 45-hp. Rochester motor. Com- pressed air is used at a pressure of about 90 lb. to supply the sand blast room and the molding machines, and also for blowing out molds and for cleaning and chipping castings. The machine molding floor at the south end of the foundry contains two Tabor molding machines and a Tabor pulley molder. There is also one more ma- chine in the small molding department. The ventilating system in the foundry was installed by the Empire Blower and Pipe Company. Power Plant and Forge Shop. Between the foundry supply storage and the machine shop is the fireproof building containing the engine room, boiler room and blacksmith shop. The building, 146 ft. long x 48 ft. wide, is flanked on one side by a coal storage of 250 tons capacity. The blacksmith shop, of which Fig. 4 is an interior view, contains a centering machine for shafting, a cut- ting-off machine, a Bradley 1800-lb. power hammer, power shears, hacksaw, Taft rolling lever shears, bolt cutters, Doty punch and shear, four emery grinders, Perkins power press, tool grinders, seven Buffalo forges, a No. 5B Buffalo blower, and a 24-in. exhaust fan for removing the gases, all driven by a 15-hp. Westinghouse motor. In the boiler room are three Keeler dry tube boilers, which have a capacity of 150 hp. each and are fitted with Diamond tube blowers. The feed water is heated in a No. 27 Cochrane heater and delivered at a temperature of 208 degrees to the boilers by two 6 x 4 x 6 in. Worth- ington duplex steam pumps. Two boilers carry the nor- mal load and one is held in reserve. The coal bin is on a level with the boiler-room floor, and below the track level outside, so that the coal can be dumped from the cars directly into the openings in the top of the coal bins. The engine room, as Fig. 5 shows, contains a Hamil- ton Corliss 20 x 42 in. engine, running at 100 rev. per min., and directly connected to a 200-kw. Crocker- Wheeler generator, and a Skinner high-speed 15 x 16 in. engine, running at 250 rev. per min., directly connected to a 100-kw, Crocker-Wheeler generator. Ordinarily the larger unit supplies the load, the smaller one being a reserve for extra demand or a substitute for the larger engine when the demand for power is small. The two together have a combined capacity of 500 to 600 hp. There is space for the installation of another unit of the size of the larger one. Both engines are oiled by a White Star gravity system, the oil from which is re- turned to a filter and forced back to the supply tanks by a small duplex steam pump, having a capacity of 150 gal. per day. In the engine room is also a Worthington Underwriter duplex fire pump, having a capacity of 1000 gal. per min. at 100 lb. pressure. Its suction is connected to a con- crete .reservoir south of the engine room, which has a capacity of 150,000 gal. The water is then forced through the mains to supply in all 2100 sprinkler heads, as well as the five housed hydrants located about the grounds, as indicated in Fig. 1. Each hydrant has at- tached to it 150 ft. of fire hose, ready for instant use. About once a month a fire drill is held, but not on any regular day or time, so that the force is not prepared by previous knowledge as to when it will occur. Each department has its own fire brigade chief, with assist- ants under him. The Machine Shop. The largest and for some reasons the most inter- esting building is the one which contains the machine and erecting shops. At present the erecting shop is a broad aisle on the west side of the shop, surmounted by a sky-lighted roof, and the remainder of the building has a saw-tooth roof to give north light without direct sunlight. Eventually the building will be extended by a similar bay flanking the main aisle on the other side. The machine tools are mainly placed under the saw- tooth roof part, and so far as possible are grouped ac- cording to their classes, about as is indicated in the plan Fig. 1. The erecting floors are similarly divided into departments, covering each class of machines built, and each different class has its own foreman and gang of men, who are specialists in building that particular machine. The building is at present 184 ft. wide x 572 ft. long, and has excellent natural light, as may be judged from the various views given in Figs. 8 to 13 inclusive. As the key on the plan of Fig. 1 explains, the points of view from which these different photographs were taken are indicated, so that keeping this in mind the reader may obtain a pretty good conception of the interior. The erecting aisle is traversed by two Shaw electric cranes, one of 10 and the other of 15 tons capacity. Both cranes have a span of 58% ft. and a hoist of 25 ft. The north end of this aisle is divided in halves, longitudinally, and each half is served by four 2-ton hand traveling cranes on lower runways. These were furnished by the Reading Crane & Hoist Company and the Shepard Electric Crane & Hoist Company. There are also two portable cranes, furnished by William S. Nicholls. A trolley system supplements the cranes, serv- ing the machine shop proper, and carries Yale & Towne 1-ton Triplex blocks. The industrial railway system connects the crane and trolley service with the other buildings and at one point contains a platform scale. A wide passage divides the machine shop section. Passing down this aisle from the north end the turret lathes are on the left, forming a department by them- selves, and the planer section on the right. Near the turret lathes are specially designed racks to hold bar stock of different sizes. The turret lathes are all fur- nished with oil pumps, so that oil drills may be used, which are very important in the machining of steel cut- ter heads, of which large numbers are made. On the right side, directly beyond the planers, are the milling machines, and facing them the thread millers used to make the special screws which enter into the different machines. Soda water tanks and oil filters are con- 1924 THE IRON AGE veniently placed, so that work may be cleansed before being sent to the different erecting departments. The next section on the left is the lathe department. The lathes are placed in groups of about eight or 10 and each group is driven by an independent motor. In- dividual lathes are generally kept on one line of work, such as shapers, resaws, surfacers, &c., so that the work- men on these tools become proficient. Among these lathes are several special machines for certain lines of work. One is a double end lathe with a very powerful drive, which is used for roughing out cylinders or cutter heads. Another is used for grinding resaw wheels and is a massive machine, automatic in action and capable of very fine adjustment. Beyond the lathe department is the pulley and gear department, where stock parts of these kinds are made and then sent to large racks near the erecting floors, where they are needed. Similarly there are several departments devoted to drill presses. Running the length of each of the drill press bays are shelves containing drilling jigs. The work is thus done in quantities very rapidly and the several departments requiring the drilled and tapped parts are easily kept supplied. The larger planers project into the main aisle, where they have the service of the electric traveling cranes, while the smaller ones and the other machines in the machine shop section proper have the trolley and hoist service before mentioned. At about the middle of the right side of the shop is the stock room and tool room, and beyond, on the left of the passage, are the boring mills, and on the right the shapers. The small machine erecting floor is near the south end, under the saw-tooth roof section. The tool room has a complete compliment of machines for making all kinds of special tools. The stock room adjoins it and is under separate supervision. Here are kept all supplies, both raw and finished, for the machine and erecting shops. Tool Equipment. The following summary of the tools contained in the machine shop gives striking evidence of how exten- sive is the equipment. It is a somewhat remarkable collection, considering the number of different makers represented. In fact the shop affords an excellent chance of comparing the various makes of machine tools and studying particularly the usefulness of each in specific applications. The tools are not all, nor very largely, new ones; some of them are no longer built and many are not the latest types of their builders, for the old shops supplanted by this one have contributed to the present outfit. Even the old tools, however, are interesting, as they all attest their enduring qualities. In the new shop no tools were retained that had outlived their usefulness or even ceased to be efficient work producers. Of all kinds of drills, including radial, upright, sen- sitive and electric, there are 51, these being of Bickford, Reed, Warren, Prentice Brothers, Cincinnati, Blaisdell, Dwight Slate, Snyder, Sweetser & Merritt, F. P. Michael, W. P. Davis, C. H. Baush & Son, Barnes and Hoefer makes. There are 14 shapers: Steptoe, Hendey, L. S. Graves, Lodge & Davis, Walcott, Smith & Mills, and Stockbridge, and 40 planers: Woodward & Powell, Pond, Pease, Rochester, Whitcomb-Blaisdell, Cincinnati, and Gray. The largest planers are a Cincinnati 62 x 48 in. x 18 ft. planer, having two heads; a Gray 30 x 36 in. x 10 ft. planer, with power rail elevating device; a Cincinnati 56 x 42 in. x 12 ft. double head planer, and a Whitcomb- Blaisdell 30 x 30 in. x 12 ft. planer, with two heads. The milling machines, 17 in all, are Brown & Sharpe, yould & Eberhardt, John L. Bogart, Garvin, Pedrick & Ayer, Becker-Brainard, Whitney Mfg. Company, and Pratt & Whitney makes. Lathes, including engine, pul- ley and turret lathes, are 73 in number, and of Le Blond, Jones & Lamson, Bullard, Blaisdell, Bogart, Reed, Par- ker & Knight, Lodge & Davis, Gisholt, Bridgeport, Pren- tice Brothers, Flather, F. 8. Perkins, Springfield, Stevens, Fay & Scott, Hendey, Streit, Bridgford, and Draper types. The Stevens and Streit lathes are pulley lathes. The largest lathe is 36 in. x 10 ft. and the longest is 32 in. x 12 ft. There are two vertical boring mills of Col- burn make. Other machines include a keyseater, worm June 18, 1908 cutter, hack saws, balancing lathes, cutter head and pulley balancing machines, belt-lacing machines, pulley groover, &c. Other equipment than machine tools proper includes 15 arbor presses and a hydrostatic wheel press, 29 grind- ers, including tool, cutter, drill, universal, emery, reamer and cutter, grindstones, electric, center, plain, disk and the special grinder of the company’s own make for grinding the surfaces of band wheels, mentioned before. The grinders represent the following makes: Diamond, Springfield, Gould & Eberhardt, Brown & Sharpe, Put- nam, Brainard, Landis, Keath, Norton, Pratt & Whitney, Garnder, and Hisey-Wolf. Several of the knife and emery grinders are of the American Wood Working Machinery Company’s own make. In all there are 27 motors in the machine shop of an aggregate rated capacity of about 460 hp. Group drive is employed entirely for the smaller machines and all very large tools are individually driven. The motor man- ufacturers represented are the General Electric Com- pany, the Rochester Motor Company, the Crocker- Wheeler Company and the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Company. Erecting Shop. The erecting shop strictly includes more than the main aisle at the west side of the building. There is a small erecting machine floor at the south end of the saw- tooth section, as indicated in the plan. In general the erecting floors are divided, each to take care of one class of machines, of which there may be from 24 to 48 on the floor at a time. The workmen on these tools each have their particular part to perform and follow one another in the progressive assembling of the machine. In this way each one becomes more expert and rapid. The as- sembling bays are lined with shelves containing the finished smaller parts for the machines being construct- ed. All of the larger machines, such as sizers, planers and matchers, molders, surfacers, resaws, &c., are erect- ed in the main bay, which is 69 ft. wide. The cranes over this bay are capable of carrying the heaviest ma- chines from one end to the other. The testing floor is at the south end of the main aisle and the packing de- partment next beyond it, so that the shipping is done from the south end of the building. Several motors are here used for driving the machines under test. Products, To give something of an idea of the work of the Rochester branch, Fig. 14 has been included, which shows a group of machines typical of those built at this plant. These will be identified in the following statement of the complete product manufactured by the company by the letters in parenthesis, which correspond to those in the engraving : SURFACERS.—No. 6% double furniture and cabinet six-roll surfacers (A) built in three sizes having capacities of 24, 27 and 30 in. wide by 7 in. thick and equipped with solid, divided or sectional rolls. No. 4% furniture and cabinet surfacers, single (M) or double, four sizes working 24, 27, 30 and 36 in. wide by 7 in. thick, having solid, divided or sectional rolls. No. 1% single surfacer (E), for pattern and general wood- working shops, working 24 in. wide and having solid or sec- tional rolls and a table which will lower 7 in. No. 51 30 in. x 8 in. six-roll planing mill and box factory surfacers. No. 50 four-roll planing mill and box factory surfacers, two sizes working 26 and 30 in. wide by 8 in. thick and having divided rolls. HanpD JorntEeRs.—Tripod frame jointers (K) built in seven sizes working from 8 to 36 in. wide. Pedestal frame jointers built in four sizes working 12 to 24 in. wide.’ The beds of the latter rise and fall on four short inclines. Banp Saws.—Band resaws (I), three sizes, 48, 54 and 60 in., for cutting timbers to dimensioned stock, resawing veneers and similar work, equipped with variable cone feed. Pattern- maker’s band saw (G), 36 in., with table tilting 45 deg. to the right and 5 deg. to the left, and the lower wheel enclosed. INSIDE Mo.pers.—Four sizes working 8, 10, 12 and 14 in. wide by 6 in. thick. FLOORING MACHINES.—No, 60 fast feed flooring machines working 104 ft. of flooring per min., built in three sizes taking 9, 15 and 24 in. wide by 6 in. thick and having six powerfully driven rolls all preceding the cutter head to avoid marking or marring the finished product. No. 55% special flooring ma- chines, two sizes, 10 and 14 in. wide x 6 in. thick and hav- ing six rolls the same as No. 60. No. 54 planer and matcher (N), two sizes working 14 and 24 in. wide by 6 in. thick and having six rolls, four rolls in advance of the cutter head and one pair of out-feeding rolls. TIMBER Sizers.—For dressing dimensioned stock, car sills, | ee tat F 3 Ka Bi a) 3 Ef Se Sine nic INI AEs sa cin 2 bale ce 28 WM ie Ali si ternal ase aa RIK Gotave'e el Seen tie tutelage mise es. tabs Mores June 18, 1908 THE factory flooring, etc. Built in six and eight roll patterns. The first, four sizes, work 12 and 14 in. thick either 20 or 30 in. wide; the 30-in. machine has divided rolls, and the 20-in. ma- chine solid rolls. The eight roll machines (L), six sizes, work 16, 18 and 20 in. thick by 20 or 30 in. wide; the rolls are solid in the 20-in. machine and divided in the 30-in. LATHES.—Heavy patternmakers’ lathes (H) with 20, 26 and 32 in. swing having 16, 12, 14 or 16 ft, beds, and power feed and compound rest. When desired, these are arranged for motor drive application. Sprep LatrHes.—Built with 12 in. swing, 55 and 72 in. beds and with plain bed, or with carriage and compound rest. Those with motor driven headstock (C) are equipped with General Electric motors of special design, Back KniFe LATHES.—Three styles,—No. 1% built in four sizes working 28, 36, 45 and 52 in. long; No. 2 in two sizes working 40 and 50 in. long, and No. 3 in two sizes working 40 and 50 in. long. These machines are used for turning ballisters, chair rails, rungs, table legs, and a variety of other spindles. BENDING PRESSES.—For bending chair backs and other reg- ular curved work where the diameter is from 30 to 42 in. and the material not over 114 in. thick. BortnG MACHINES.—Double horizontal boring machines with radial attachment for boring holes in chair backs or other similar work, built in two sizes. Triple dowel boring machine for boring three dowel holes at once. Multiple boring machines for table leaf and similar work. Vertical three-spindle car borer. Double vertical chair borer. Bit mortising machine used for ordinary boring and cutting mortises. Dowel. MACHINES.—For turning dowels and rods from 3-16 to 2 in. diameter, equipped with either hand or power feed. Saw BencHueEs.—Universal saw benches (J) for pattern mak- ing and similar work, carrying a cross cut and a rip saw and if desired a dado. head, and having a table tilting to 45 deg. to the right, a graduated sector in the table which enables the operator to cut any angle without figuring it out, and a rolling segment in the left hand table. Double saw bench (D) having both saws but without the tilting table, and arranged to re- ceive boring attachments. Rip saw tables built in two sizes, light and heavy. No. 2 combination saw benches with or with- out boring attachments and carrying dado heads. No. 1 saw bench—a variety saw bench—equipped with or without boring attachments and having a table tilting to 45 deg., and carry- ing a dado head or plain heads which will carry jointing, grooving and rabbiting bits. No. 0 saw bench made with sta- tionary or tilting table. Mitre saw bench (F) having graduated scales on the four corners for setting gauges to cut any angle up to 45 deg. in any direction, or arranged as a plain cut-off saw only. Clipper saw for cutting off the butt ends of floor- ing and similar work as it leaves the matcher. SHAPERS.—Three styles, No. 3, extra heavy with two spindles 30 in. apart; No. 2% double spindle shaper (B) with spindles 24 in. apart, built either with plain or bronze conical bear- ings, and equipped with an adjustable countershaft and an ad- justable guide stand; and No. 1 single spindle shaper with friction reverse countershaft. Such an array of product apparently contradicts the statement made earlier that this plant specializes, until it is remembered that it was also explained that the In- dividual workmen are kept on the same kind of work and under the same foreman, who has charge of building only one class of machine. It is practically as though there was a separate factory for each type of machine. This arrangement is possible because, while there may be certain sizes that are only occasionally made, each class-is always represented in the work in progress. This system of managing it is quite as much a credit to the American Wood Working Machinery Company as the factory itself. | eae ell dain Foundry Sand Conveying.—In the article on the above subject which appeared in The Iron Age last week a typographical error appeared in the sentence, “ The il- lustrations, Figs. 1 and 2, show the details of such a con- veyor, which consists of a trough for holding the material, surrounded by a steel frame on wheels, which carries hinged flights extending down into the trough.” The word “ surrounded ”’ should have been “ surmounted.” It was also a mistake to say that the gate mechanism in the installation in the Atha Steel Casting Company’s foundry was like that indicated in Figs, 1 and 2. As a matter of fact, it is a modification of the Link-Belt Company’s undercut gate, and is so made as to deflect the sand from the delivery point. —_——_—_——.@--————___—_. The hi,shest point in Texas has been found by the United States Geological Survey to be located in the Guadalupe Range in the northern part of El Paso County, not far from the New Mexican boundary line. The ele- vation is 8690 ft. above the seavand the peak is signifi- cantly called E] Capitan by the Mexicans. IRON AGE 1925 A Northern Electric Hoist. Wherever it is possible or convenient to use a hand chain block, the type C electric hoist made by the North- ern Engineering Works, Detroit, Mich., can be used, as it is practically an ordinary hand chain block adapted for motor drive. The hoist here illustrated is a redesign of the original C type placed on the market three years ago, in which the distance between the suspension and lifting hooks has been reduced to obtain higher lifts under low ceilings; it is also made for either direct or alternating current. Being equipped with a crane motor and standard controller capable of wide range of control and ample resistance, the hoist can be operated at fast or slow speed, ranging from five to ten times the speed of a hand operated hoist. To provide for the severer service to which the power hoists are naturally subjected they are built about double the size and strength of hand hoists SS Ce § G Ww “Se aS S oot! ‘y y 4 i r ~ -x -—xk x > os a oe i ps | -—y —T The Redesigned Type.C Electric Chain Hoist Made by the Northern Engineering Works, Detroit, Mich. of like capacity. As compared with some drum hoists, it has the advantage of suspension by a single hook, which gives it a flexibility that enables it to sustain a side pull without pulling the chain out of the sprocket groove. A direct drive through a set of cut spur gears com- pactly arranged affords ample power, and wear is re- duced to a minimum by running the principal gears in cil. The hoist is recommended for moderate service, especially in boiler shops, machine shops, over tools, in warehouse service, and in some kinds of foundry work. It is supplied with a brake of automatic disk type and can be equipped with motors of any standard make. These hoists are made in capacities of from one to six tons, with standard hight of lift from 8 to 12 ft. The approximate dimensions of the 1, 2 and 3 ton hoists when equipped with direct current motors are 20'S in. wide, 46 in. long and 2 ft. 8 in. minimum dis- tunce betwéen centers of hooks. For the 4, 5 and 6 ton hoists they are respectively, 24 in., 55 in. and 3 ft., except for the 6 ton, in which the least distance between hooks is & fi. 4 in. With alternating current motors the lengths and widths are increased, depending on the make of motor applied. 1926 THE IRON AGE June 18, 1908 The American Foundrymen’s Association at Toronto. Molding Machines, Cost Systems, Automobile Cylinders, By-Product Coke and Other Topics Discussed—Working Exhibits of Foundry Appliances. The Toronto, Canada, meeting of June 8 to 12 was a climax in the convention history of the American Foun- drymen’s Association. It was thought that going into an- other country, even but a little distance beyond the border and to a pleasant and accessible city, would cut down the attendance. On the contrary, a new record was reached, the registration on the last day mounting to 1430, as against 1371 in 1907 at Philadelphia, which was considered a phenomenal figure. There was everywhere the expression of satisfaction with the arrangements at Toronto. Members and guests and exhibitors were well cared for; the city itself was an attraction, and the provision of a separate building at the Canadian Industrial Exhibition grounds, for the technical and business sessions, was a distinct improve- ment over the arrangement at other meetings where ma- chinery was exhibited. More persons heard the papers read and more took part in their discussion than at any preceding meeting. It is noteworthy, moreover, that the American Foundrymen’s Association conventions are now sought for as they have never been. Cincinnati is the meeting place for next year; Detroit is conceded to be in line for 1910, and Pittsburgh wanted the convention of that year, but will probably be satisfied to wait until 1911, while there is a possibility that a Western city, Denver, perhaps, will be visited before a return to Pittsburgh, which was the convention city of 1899. The grounds of the Canadian Exhibition were an ideal place for the convention, which has taken on much more the aspect of an exposition, now that the operation of molding machines and all other foundry equipment is made so prominent a feature. The Foundry Supply As- sociation, at a large expenditure of money, sets up these working exhibits and aids in defraying the general ex- pense of the convention and its entertainment features. The crowded aisles of the exhibit buiidings and the deeply interested and sharply observant groups of foundrymen surrounding every operated machine showed that these demonstrations are the chief magnets of the meeting. WEDNESDAY MORNING. The sessions for the reading of papers began Wednes- day morning in the Dairy Building, a circular structure with cement floor and the seats arranged to form an amphitheatre. The light cdmes through skylights in the center of the roof. At the outset a word is in place concerning the ex- cellent work of the presiding officer, Stanley G. Flagg, Jr., of Philadelphia. Mr. Flagg’s technical equipment made it easy for him to start discussion, and the free interchange of views secured on several of the papers was due largely to the good initiative of the president. The traditions of the association do not permit it, but it was suggested at the meeting that when so excellent an executive is secured and one with progressive ideas as to the province of the association, much might be gained by keeping him in office two or three years. Automobile Cylinder Work. Secretary Moldenke read the paper on “ The Produc- tion of Automobile Cylinders,” by L. N. Perrault, man- ager of the Waterbury Casting Company, Waterbury, Conn. It is given elsewhere in this issue. E. H. Mumford said that he had no idea of the care used in the preparation of cores and molds for automo- bile cylinder work until he had specially looked into the matter. He recalled being shown a core that had just been used in such work and wondered at the foundry superintendent breaking it in pieces. The fact that it had a very small pit on one side ruined it for gas engine pur- poses, though this would not have prevented its re-use in ordinary work. ‘ J. J. Wilson, Cadillac Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich., referred to the pickling of automobile cylinders as having advantages and disadvantages. If the core sand is not all out of the water chamber, which it is impossible tu ascertain without breaking up the casting, the pickle will harden the sand and later treatment will not remove it. Tumbling will jar it out, however, where there has been no pickling, particularly if the tumbler has been packed by an expert, in which case cleaner cylinders can be got than by pickling. The speaker had noticed varia- tions in the analysis of automobile cylinders made in France from those of cylinders made in the United States. He had had a number of analyses made of French cylin- ders, the silicon ranging from 1.64 per cent. to 2.30 per cent., and the phosphorus from 1.20 per cent. to 1.70 per cent. A cylinder having the last named phosphorus con- tent would be weak and brittle and would not withstand much shock. In the United States the phosphorus in cylinder castings is considerably less, ranging from 0.30 to 0.60 per cent., while silicon runs from 1.50 per cent. to 3.00 per cent., with manganese from 0.50 to 0.90 per cent, In sulphur the French and American castings run about the same, though the latter are usually a trifle lower. Analyses of French cylinders had shown 0.09, 0.10 and 0.11 in sulphur. In reply to questions, Mr. Wilson said that he had used manganese for cylinder castings, some- times introducing it into the ladle and sometimes in the cupola. He preferred buying pig iron with sufficiently high manganese to introducing the manganese separately into the cupola mixture or into the ladle. It was sug- gested by a member that it would be difficult to secure sufficient strength in cylinders of thin section carrying as high sulphur and phosphorus as the French cylinders ; in reply it was said that French cylinders are not sub- jected to the same shock as American. The Chemistry of Cylinder Mixtures. W. A. Jenkins, Oldsmobile Company, Lansing, Mich., presented the analyses of 12 automobile cylinders, one of which, No. 3, was made in France and the others in the United States. These analyses as published in an automobile trade journal are as follows: Tensile Total strength No. carbon. C.C. Mn. Ss. Si. Phos. Lb. 1 3.35 1 43 .094 2.31 .05 22,360 2 3.02 43 Py 4 .053 2.70 .463 18,970 3 Fr. 3.47 .40 40 102 2.45 117 17,940 4 3.34 10 .469 083 2.59 566 15,880 5 3.04 08 22 10 2.55 .820 19,750 6 3.24 .098 .385 111 2.67 433 23,936 7 3.34 59 525 O84 2.30 807 22,900 8 3.74 .65 .410 .083 1.60 53 18,460 9 2.87 .028 .440 159 3.56 ed 3 25,030 10 3.52 .624 476 .091 1.72 578 25,260 11 3.91 .62 823 .068 1.67 444 21,330 12 3.61 10 518 .093 1.38 .620 14,710 In answer to a question Mr. Jenkins said there was no specification as to hardness, though in his opinion it is possible to get too soft iron for cylinder work in the effort to get castings that