The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-07-25
MANUPAeToRIEs OF TIFFIN.
OHIO srovE woRKs.r

I'VE purpose each week, until all have been no.
t.oed, 20 devote . portion -ot our toeai columns.
to writing up" the business capacities, &C., OF
- I-1-E- -lI-f-a- n 4
The enterprise Of establishing an institution
ofthiskind in our city, would have been looked
upon few years gesby the skeptical, as an
undertaking which would only result in disas-
ter and a loss of capital, but under the energet-
ie ami persevering ladnageufSdt Of NJ. JaB. $. .
Yerk, an extensive aid flouriAiihg bdiihSss
has been built up. The finest stoves manu-
factured in the west are now being turred
out at tile rate Of two hundred and fifty per
week, employing, during the dull season Of
the year, forty-three workmen, in the vari-
Gus dltsept depagtmepls,--twepy being
employed In the easling.room alone. al
mammoth engine OF thirty horse capacity
furnishes the motive power, whereby all the
machineryis Is Kept in constant motion. Thir-
~ toassol pig iron per wesksis changed into
smooth and synstricaiiy formed plat
ings for Stoves, Hollow.ware &c. The main
building, containing finishing aud ware
rooms, is Seventy-ivo by thirty feet and
three stories in heighs This also embraces
CfIice and pattern rooms the moulding room
is one hIndred feet long by seventy six in
width, -the floor Of which, at the time of
our visit was compactly filed with TASKS
ready for the molten metal. These are emp.
tied and pehlled every day, employing the
number Of workmen as above stated -
Each process for manufacturing has its
sepera.e department. On the third floor Of
the main building, the patterns are first made,
they are then passed down to the easting
floor, and put in the hands OF tho .moulder
heses they are ehessei isile fIasf or wooden
frame, containing sand, previously sifled aud
rendered soft aad plastic; after the impression
is taken, the pattern-is- removed, the flask
closed and the melted iron fills the space pre-
yiously occupied by the pattern. Afler cool
ing, thgnstlpgsaFe conveyed to aaetheode-
partmeni, where the adhering sand is remov-'
ed a6tths'fOdsK edges ground on on a hugo
grindstOne. From thence they are conveyed
to the finishing room, where the remaining
roughness is removed and are there assorted
and stored ysrssly to DO put up, as the
diagSat paalSSns maySe needed. Twenty
one different styles, Of slOyss-77bO.b Cook and
Par!or-of forty-nine sizes are being manu-
factured, together with all the various kinds
of Hollow ware, and appurteuauces belonging
TO them.
Six hundred cords Of wood and three hun
dred 'tOhs, ofeaalyars consumed yearly At
these works. Tbs, Average expense OF this
establishment is Sl,07o, per week. The
yerkmgp eppleysd sre from the beat CmAni-
factories Of the East and the Stoves are of
the latest and mcslimprqYed patterns, com.
priSing in part the following list Cook
S1ovs' Ohio State, Western Home, Star of
Empire, Clinton, ohio Home. Belle Of Ohio
and Pavilion. Paylor Stopes,-Lilly Parlor
Cook, Lilly High Cottage, LILLY Cottage Par
lOr, BSauty Top ana 'Bsss, UaRlsy, Western
FshN Scss Bs,9gje PsFCsa AssqA
Thsss wouks ass,sapAbss Sswossfng seven
ty men, the capacity Of furnace being seven
tons per hour, with blower Of equal capacity,
but as yet have notbssn worked to their
utmost. The establishment has been gradu-
ally increasing It's business and progressing
slaAaiig aNa 6rin sud solid basis, and isnow
looked upOn as one ofihs iaslspdoas 81 opr
city, lt1ae bids or y l.aoims power among
our western manafAct ories.15-gfei . sssf