The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-09
HEWLETT BROTHERS
OPEN CAN FACTORY
Progressive Firm Furnishes
Substantial Evidence of
Aiding Home Industry.
PLANT is UP TO DATE
Latest Type of Machinery Is
Seen and Admired by Promi-
nent Salt Lakers.
PLANT is UP TO DATE

Formal opening OF the new TIN can
factory of the Hewlett Brothers com
pany was held yesterday afternoon,
with large body of interested. enthu-
siastic and progressive citizens as
guests. The opening was completely
successful throughout. being conducted
with the customary Hewlett snap and
vigor.
Every machine in the place was be.
ing operated. turning out hundreds OF
cans each hour, completed and ready
for receiving the contents for which
they were intended The several pro
cesses were watched with great inter
est by the visitors. who followed the
cans from the cutting and dye-stamp-
ing machines to the processes OF as
sembing. filing aud labelling.
Machines Work Well.
There were three powerful stamp ma
chimes. fitted with steel dies, the first
one cutting round lids and shaping
them ready to go on TO the body OF the
can. Next to it was another powerful
stamp, also fitted with steel dies, that
cuf and shaped The bottoms of the cans.
Succeeding this one WAS machine OF
similar type that sta mped the sides o,
square cans liz four panels and turned
the edges Of the scam. Another cut
tho bottoms and tops for these square
cans. which are used as syrup packages,
ranging from n quart TO fvc gallons In
rapacity
Round cans 60 from the stamping ma.
chimes to She assembling device. This
consists Of rapidly revolving discs upon
which the bottom and the body of the
can are placed. there being joined and
the seam turned in in an 1nstau s time
for ouph Tho % sent to
hand asscmblers, who have large trays
of molten solder on the long work
bench into which the seams are uni
formlv dipped and soldered securcl!
against leakage. They then go 10 an
inspector who makes assurance doubly
surc bv testing them for possible leaks
and remedies any defect discovered,
Complete Equipment.
In this portion of the plant the ma
chinery is operated by two fifteen horse
power electric motors. and when all the
machines are IN operation the scene
presented is such a busy one rs to FIRE
the ambitious onlooker with n desire
to ne up and doing something. FOO.
After having seen the can-makjn2
machines do their work the visitors
were conducted through the other por-
tious of the plant, They saw the tea
aud coffee packing departments, where
the individual packages are filed with
their contents for market. Most Of
The filing is done by automatic weigh
ing machines. which admit the required
weight Of product and then automat-
icallv shut off the supply as each pack
age is filed Then the guests were
taken into the spice mill, where the
spices and peppers were ground. Here
Ssn-oIoof - o.l
with laughter by the merry visitors,
but was undoubtedly accepted by Or
son +. Hewlett as q compliment to the
pungcncv Of Odor attaching TO his
spices. 1t was not an unusual thing,
either. to hear the scofIer Of one mo-
ment emit i lustv 'Fa.choO.' In the
next.
Tn on the third floor were the box
makers, who were swiftly putting to-
gether the wooden boxes and crates in
which the smaller packages were to
be deposited for shipment. peep in
10 The testing room was also had. This
is laboratory in which an expert
makes careful tests Of all teas coffees,
spices and navoring extract bases re-
rcived BY the firm 1t is upon this
cXpcrt's tests that perfect blending of
coffees depends. as well az tho exact
proportions of bases and filters to be
used in producing the highest grades
Of Havoring extracts.
Experts in Evidence,
Other rooms were devoted TO aging
processes. One was for aging baking
powder, and il vas explained that it
was necessary to keep this at An even
temperature day and night in order to
secure proper aging Of the baking pow
der stored therein for n sci period
In another room were barrels Of the
concentrate vanilla extract These
were kept there for long period for
The purpose Of ripenipg
While the visitors were in the coffee
roasting room batch Of roasted cof-
fee WAS discharged from The roastcr
There were three bags. or 800 pounds
of green coffee originally in the batch.
or course, evaporation Of moisture in
the roasting process reduced this ma
terially, the reduction varying with al
most every bag, twenty minutes being
required for each roasting batch The
roasted beans were automatically con
veyed across the room TO steel cut
ter. where they were reduced to what
is called ground coffee.
IT was stated that the new tin can
factory alone, including building and
machinery: cost approximately 10000.
The building is 351110 feet in dimen-
sious in the main portion, with a wing
of about 50x $50 feet ut one side Of tho
west end. 1t is located near the old
plant on state street lust below Sew