The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-06
ELECTRIC MOTORS.
Belknap Motor Company.

Beiknap Motor Company.
The Belknap Motor Company was
first Incorporated in 1883 as the Belknap
Water Motor Company with capital of
$4,000, and reincorporated in 1890 under
the present style with capital of. $50
900, and having for officers of the corpo-
ration Geo. w. Brown as president and
general manager; W. Fl. Chapman, treas
urer and Seth L. Larrabee, clerk. Start
ing eight years ago in a one-story room
40x80 feet, success has forced them year
by year into larger quarters, until they
now occupied three floors of space with
front of 40 feet on Fore street, and a
length Of ITO feet on Cross street, or
1900 square feet of floor space.
This plant of the Belknap Motor Com
pany is centrally located in the business
portion of the city of Portland at the
corner of Fore and Cross streets, less
than i've minutes walk from all the
principal hotels. The company has
twice outgrown its quarters and each
time has been obliged to build additions
to double the floor space of the factory
and now it has large and commodious
building with elevator, travelling cranes
and improved standard and special ma
chinerys where they keep a large line
of regular machines in stock and have
others in the course of construction
and give special attention to machines
for special work built TO order.
The business of this company is the
manufacture of electrical machinery,
passenger and freight elevators, on
which they control many valuable
patents.
Among the special electrical machines
produced by them is an automatic regu-
lator for the adjustment and control Of
varying speed dynamo, an apparatus
that insures automatic control of the
electric current without regard to the
variation of sneed or force OF the electric
fluid that comes in contact with it,
Another machine worthy of special
mention is the Belknap MultipolarPower
Generator. These machines are designed
especially for railroad generators, but
are adapted for use wherever a heavy
current is required.
The frame is made up of several parts
bolted together so that the total weight
is quite evenly divided. This makes it
very convenient about setting up in
stations not provided with apparatus for
handling very heavy weights. The bed
is planned to fit iron slides and is very
rigidly constructed to stand the strain Of
uCdfJ pdA 10 lCbIiLA upon u.
These machines are unsurpassed in de-
sign, material and workmanship, and are
perfectly adapted in every way to power
transmission. They are wound for any
voltage and can be used either as gener-
ators, motors or for lighting.
The merits of the passenger and freight
elevators built and installed by the Bel
KNAPP Motor Company is forcing this
branch of the business into prominence
and favor, wherever speed dominated
by safety is appreciated. The value of
these elevators can be guaged by an in
Building of this city; the new Kohoes
streets, New York.
ton in the factory of this company two
three-hundred horsepower generators
for the Cliff Paper Company of Niagara
Falls. And they also have in the process OF
construction three fifteen horsepower
tor attachments.
simple but forceful example of what can
be done in this State in manufacture NO
enterprises.
place their goods in competition with
the worlds best producers. The
Belknap Motor Company placed
their manufacture on exhibit in the
Worlds exposition at Chicago, have
freely used printers ink and as result
find their orders continually increasing
and their enlarged plant yet too small for
the conduct of their operations.