The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-22

duced many new and desirable improve
ments. Having lost all their old patterns
by the fire, all their work in this, as In other
departments, is now done from entirely new
ones, which embrace all the latest improve
ments. Nearly three hundred of their inn
proved hydraulic presses are In use In vari-
ous parts Of the tobacco manufacturing dis
trict. Recently they shipped lump-ma-
chine to Detroit, Michigan, whittier its
lame had preceded it.
Talbot & Sons challenge competition,
coming from whatever source, In any de-
partment Of the business to which they
have devoted themselves. The appoint
me, ments OF their. shops are most complete.
Inc capacity of their establishment is such
as 20 employ two hundred hands. Now
they are working about one hundred. -
ETTEsGER EDMOND. r
The establishment of Rttenger & Ed
mond, on Cary street, between Fifteenth
and seventeenth, was founded by William
Ettenger and Thomas Dodamead in Octo-
Der, lSJU, under the firm name of William
Ettenger 81 Co. The present concern COM
menced operations in 1857, Fl. P. Edmond
Joining the senior partner of the old firm,
for the manufacture of portable and sta
tionary engines Of all kinds, and for gene
raj foundry and machinery business. .a.s.
Doing all kinds of machine work, Etten-
ger d Edmond have always devoted large
share of their time and attention to the
tobacco manufacturing interest, and claim
to have been the first before the war to in
troduce press which successfully super
seded the manual labor screw-press. Since
the war they have made specially of to-
bacco machinery, and claim also to have
introduced the present system of hydraulic
presses, WHICH has revolutionized the
manner of manufacturing tobacco. The
first factory in Richmond using these presses
was that of E. A. Smith & Co., into which
they were introduced in June, 1867. Now,
there is hardly factory in the city that
has not abandoned the old style of presses
and introduced the new. They claim also
to have first successfully applied steam.
was put up in the factory Of a. Cameron 81
Co., Of this city. An engine with pumps
attached has since been gotten up by this
firm especially for this purpose, and has
given entire satisfaction to the many manll-
facturers using it in this city and Peters
burg.
Their next improvement in this line was
lump machine for p. III. Mayo IL Co.,
which has been in operation for more than
year. The tobacco being swept into o revoly-
ing trough, passes under roller, is cut to
leDgC0 Dy o revolving CuCLeT, una COuleS OuL
ready for the wrapper, without being ham
died from the time it goes into the machine
in loose state until it comes out in the
form Of lump.
Ettenger IL Edmond have always made
steam engines suited to the demand OF this
and more southern portion of our country.
Their styles of engines have always been
recommended for their durability, good
workmanship, and beauty OF the design,
and stand as high, perhaps, as those of any
other make. Their steam fire-engines-one
in St. Petersburgh, Russia, and two in this
city-have never been beaten by any en-
gines of the same size in efficiency, dura-
bility, finish, or general appearance. ...
They propose making u specially of hy-
draulic wheel presses and wheel-boring
machines for railroads. They have furnished
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto-
mac railroad aud Richmond and Danville
railroad, of this city, with wheel presses,
and are now engaged in making wheel
boring machine for the Richmond and DAN
vile railroad. They have also lately made
hydraulic press for Messrs. William Came
ron & Brother, of Petersburg, weighing
$4,000 pounds, for working +. Holbrook's
lump machine. 1t is supposed to be the
largest ever built in Richmond. They have
the exclusive right to manufacture G. E.
Rymes's patent hydralic presses for shaping
and potting tobacco, in Virginia and Moth
Carolina.