The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-27
NEW COMPANY TO
 MAKE CULVERTS Birmingham Metal Products Company Organized ARE SELECTING SITE Hope to Begin Manufacture of Pat ented Culvert, Cisterns, Garbage
 Cans, Etc, With the
 Next Thirty Days
ARE SELECTING SITE

The Birmingham Metal Products com pany, a corporation recently organized by three business men of this city, with paid in capital stock of s35,0O0, will begin the manufacture of spiral locked joint corrugated metal culverts, corrugated tanks. clsterns. garbage cans and other metal articles within the next 30 days, according to an official announcement made yesterday. Soon Jacobs, J. H. Dean and II. O. Barnard are the sole parties concerned with the new enterprise, and are negotiating for a site on which to erect a plant.
 A building on Avenue E between Elev- enth and Twelfth streets has been leased for the first housing of the industry, which is to begin with a force of some 50 to 100 expert and common laborers and the com pany expects to have it's goods the market before the expiration of the next month. The establishment of agency bu- reaus. the boundaries of the trade territory and selection of factory sites in other states will be gradually evolved for the enlarging of the Birmingham output. which is planned to average a carload of culverts daily, with proportionate produc- tlons in the other lines.
 This is the first industry of it's kind in Alabama, one of the very few in the south and will be equipped with machin- cry which has been ordered and is en route to this city, representing with the accompanying stock of metal an approxi- mate expenditure of $40,000 Skilled metal workers have been engaged and every thing is in readiness to begin operations with the installation of the machinery.
 Patented Culvert
 The speciality of the Birmingham Metal Products company is to be the patented spiral locked, electrically welded corru- gated metal culYert which, it is said, will completely revolutionize the methods of riveting metal drain pipes by eliminating the necessity of using a single rivet The spiral lock, which is effected by the Ieav- ing of one corrugation extention to inter- lock with that of another section to be fitted to 1t in the makeup of culvert is simple device that was originated by Mir Dean, and is fully protected by United States patent. This will enable the water condults to be shipped easily in sections, manufactured in any required size and to be so easily connected that ordinary workmen can successfully mite the several sections.
 Lohmanized metal, especially treated to resist all corrosive influences of the weather and ground, will compose the principle raw material to be employed in the making of the culverts, cisterns garbage cans and outside tanks.
 ae-it far states has been largely responsible for the demand for metal cu1verts here and the corrugated drain pipe that the Bir mingham Metal company will turn ont from the plant in this city is most aptly designed for this purpose" said solon Jacobs in speaking of the in- dustry yesterday.
 Great Improvement
 "The great trouble in metal culvert insertions has been the matter of join ing the corrugated pipes together as oftentimes the rivets would rust away causing the various sections to fall apart. But the spiral lock has solved the problem of uniting the parts into a perfect whole that will bear inter- locking even to three corrugations should an added amount of enduring strength be desired.
 AS drainage is the most important feature of good highway structure, we believe that the spiral locked culvert will fill the requirements along this line perfectly as the patented process of metal dressing will insure their wear for an indefinite term of years and the method of welding the corru- gated metal into joints will obliterate any danger of rust or corrosion.
 Every road engineer. the Jefferson county Board of Revenue and the rail- road construction experts have heartily indorsed the spiral lock, and many have marveIled that this simple yet scien tifc means of joining the sections has not occurred to the minds of manufac- turers before this time. There can't be any undoing of the parts once they have been united and this principle of connection is to be utilized in other products manufactured by this com pany."
 T, F. A.