The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-03-02
% MORE MEN
TO BE ADDED
TO the Tire Machine Manu-
featuring Force.
MORE ROOM REQUIRED
Will Build a Large Addition
at Once.

The Brooks Tire Machine company has
decided to extend their building on North
Water street south to the alley and fash
with The street. the object being 10 make
working room Tor twenty-five men.
Mr.. !. NJ. Hackney. merager II the
company. and principal owner Of the pat
ents covering the machine. confirmed the
reported increase Of building capacity
Yesterday and was inclined to think that
stiIl more space would be needed before
the summer is over The company has
now orders ahead Of them FOR $1,000
worth OF machines. all Of when must be
filled within the next two months rhese
orders are coming IT. from al over the
world the latest one berg fron New
South Wales. 1t is the only business In
Wichita whose patronage is world wide
and within q few Years win probably b.
ire biggest business in he city.
Some ten or q dozen years ago man
named Brooks then living OF Lolgton
Kansas, conceived the idea OF ma6IIg a
machine that would shrink wagon tires
without taking them of TIE wheel. He
made q rough machine with q single &C.
centric, but Il did not work satisfactorily.
They would break under the heavy Ires-
sure Some SIX years ago he dieQ ana Mr..
]. n Hackney, 3 clerk IA O Wichita coal
office. took up the invention and patiently
began experiments for its perfection. He
-a2de machine after machine only ID find
they were not perfect. His friends here
began to fear fer his sanity bat he was
not discourage They laughed among
themselves at their old friend. who had
been fond CT gaiety. shutting himself zap
in his Office after business hours. fool
ms with pieces of iron. "Whcels, "
thcy would say. when Hackney's rame
was mentioned TOO bad.
For six Ions wears Afr. Hackney con-
tinued experimenting losing out often.
bur never discoura ged He had the Irin-
ciple Of q wonderful acknowledgements
the greatest since the blacllsmiths vice
WIS invented-and he knew it. He was
not solving a principle, he was perfeoting
details. He made a machine with a
double eccentric and it worked better.
The clamps he used would break and he
mad TO get ones that would resist the
pressure. He had to have ole piece made
at one factory, especially noted fO~ that
kind of work. and another at another
factory and SO on. His machine IS no
larger than a child's play wagon and vet
six OF the largest steel factories in the
United States are required TO furnish the
pieces that go into 1t. All that car be
lntlt III Wl-ullA are lfle iron BASES Ltt
the machines Instead of the perfected
machine being che invention, it is a COM
DiEation of about q dozen inventions and
patents cover all o. them. And these Pat
ents are numerous For this country. he
has. of course, American patents, but
he must have them from England.
France. Germany, Holland, Austria, Rus
STA. Italy Norway ana Sweden Austra-
ia and Spain as well Applications are
now fled in ali these countries and the
cost of procuring hem is GLORIOUS But
it is nothing compe1ed with the profits
on the investment. Re now mas letters
from all those counties inquiring about
his machine.
BY the machine. tire can he shrunk.
without heating ii in two minutes and il
does not have to be removed from the
wheel All the farmer has 10 DO Is to
drive up before a blacksmith shop. make
his wants know ii, sit in the wagon wait
two minutes ard have his tire frightened
mp The blacksmith lifts the axle as if
To grease il, runs the wheel into the shop
sets II in the machine. bears down upon
lever and the work is done.
One hundred pounds pressure on the
end of tho lever makes a pressure of
10000 pounds on the sides Of the tire
which thickens and takes UP what might
be called the slack. But YOU can hardly
see where the tire is thicl5ened or shrunk.
Yesterday a workman shortened "a tire
thTee-eights Of an inch for an Eagle re-
porter and outside of the marks on the
side If il. left by tho CLAMP it was i'm
possible to ten where the shrinkage was
made
The machine weighs $50 pounds. eli the
steel work being heavily made to resist
the immense pressure 1t can be shipped
10 Amsterdam for SO and 10 Liverpool
for less than g.
The machine complete costs $40 and
can be laid Gown in any part II the
world. freight and handling included for
less than Si75 l--year-oid boy can op-
crate it without any assistance
There are cNf0oo BLACKSMITH shops in the
United States alone and it is agreed that
in the future ore If these machines must
be . part Of their equipment Lnder
the old system tire had 10 be taken Off
the wheel heated n piece cut off ana re-
set. The work continuing several l6urs
Tor q set or wheels and costing about
s. Now n set OF tires can be shruEk in
ten minutes and, 1T most. VIII not cost
more than 3 or as uuch less as the
blacksmith desires 10 charge.
The FIRST perfected machine COMPLETED
hy NJ Hecknev cost him about sl1.oa
Taat much having been invested l,forc
any values came in. ills first supply COM
sisted OF eleven machines and he seat our
q salesman 10 introduce them. Greatly
80 ffs astonishno1t. he received THIRTY
three orders. or cNaCtiv three zines more
than ne couid tiil.
The machines are an made in Wichita
although. with the exception of the base
ana p few other constituent pars. the
various pieces that 20 into IT, are made
away fr1m home some in ST. Louis.
some in Philadelphia anl some in Nil
waukec. Two men were employed ~
first tlea thirteen and now thirty-fvo
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