The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-08-27
XXXIII.

New industries are always In order
In Wilmington. The George Ii. Mccall
Company, having inspected mortar.
mixing plants In several progressive
cities, have built one ON the south side
OF the Christiana river with all the ad.
lyantages of the others. combined
with new inventions and especially
original and efficient applications.
They started II last Monday. II works
to perfection. |. M. Lendermau 4
Brother buy the fret tank full OF $50
tons for the new Century Club building.
They have added S25, coo plant To WI.
mington industries, but IL would take
far In advance of that sum to buy 1t.
| The lime is run In by the car load
on an elevated railroad, and ut the
height OF fifteen feet 1t lie unloaded
into the second floor of the factory on
the same level The Jumps are thrown
into large elacking tank where hot
water from ten thousand gallon
tank cheated by coils of steam pipe) is
lei in, dissolving every particle OF the
lime evenly, thus developing Its full
strength. Atintervals this solution is
Ipussed through screen into tanks OF
several hundred bushels capacity 10.
ed in the first story. II is then
pumped up (by the largest pull
pump built by the Pussy and Jones
Company, with two outlets. each {
Inches In diameter, with capacity OF
4 gallons to each revolution, and pro.
bnbly OF 160 gallons per minute) into
a large tank on the third elevation.
The overflow pipe of this tank leads
back TO the storage tanks, SO nothing
can be lost by surplus. On this thin
floor IL meets the washed and screened
lsand which has been pumped up from
the bottom OF Delaware river at Pom
ny Hook, shipped in SEQ and 400 ton
loads, landed ON the whaIf-thousands
OF tons-pHssed through revolving
steam power screen with capacity Of
nearly one ton per minute, elevated by
iron buckets on a revolving endless
chain and then taken along by con-
yeyer until, with the lime paste, il
falls into the mortar mixer.
This is an upright cylinder of iron
whose contents are mixed by the
eighty paddle-shared steel arms OF a
central revolving shaft. This makes
rough mortar for stone and brick
work. In plaster mortar the hair.
bought from the Illinus Leather Com.
Ipany, is here mixed i'll. After being
thoroughly mixed TIE mortar Is here
let out 10y opening o gate IL inches by
IL inches. dumping it into conveyer
to either one OF the SIX l50-ton storage
tanks.ithe capacity of the whole being
GOO tons.
After 1t here stands for a period of
time gate is opened at the bottom OF
the tank the wagon having been driv-
EN- under. which is filled and started
ION in one minute from the time the
drives started to back his tenn in, and
contains $500 pounds more or less
This wagon is also something en-.
Itirely new and expeditions. being the
invention of George II. Mccall, who
invented the arrangement OF the
whole machinery OF this plant, and o,
Harry s. Bullock, who has applied for
IA patent. No wagon could be loaded
Tor unloaded quicker. The whole
plant looks to be the perfection of in
genuitv. and the mortar the strongest
smoothest, and most adhesive and per-
feet that could bc made.
The president of the company
scraped some OF 1t that had dried on u
beam with trowel, saying to one OF
our reporters /: See, IL is as hard as
flint" We think it is the perfection of
mortar, l. M. Lenderman d Brother,
who built the Equitable building, arc
delighted with 1t. The new Century
Club building will have the honor OF
being the flrst monument to its dura-
bility.
The locomotive boiler is 1876 h. p. =.
and the steam engine Is h. p.
The Company will build forwith two
storage tanks, each 16 H.. by II It. by
p IT., for holding white coat mortar
" hich also has to stand long time
before using to beat its beet. In the
"old country" mortar is said to be al.
lowed TO stand from to 8 months.