The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-06-03
ONE OF BUSIEST
PLACES IN TOWN
c. H. Eddy & Co. s Bottling Plant,
Which Does Big Business, a
Model of Cleanliness.

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The recent spell of weather started
up the demand of soft drinks with a
rusl and from now until snow flies the
c. II. Eddy & Co. s bottling works
will be one of the busiest places in
town. There is demand for the bev-
erages manufactured by the company
the year around, but naturally, the
warm weather increases the demand
materially. Besides the soft drinks
the concern manufactures about all of
the staple iavOrs of extracts used in
households, toilet waters and other
similar commodities.
During the past winter the interior
of the plant was entirely renovated.
Some changes i'll the interior have been
made to give better light and make
easier the handling of the products i'll
the different phases of their prepare
ton for the market. The interior of
the plant is spotlessly clean. Tne walls
and floor have been especially treated
with the idea of reducing to the lowest
possible degree the danger of any con-
tamination. From beginning to end of
the process of manufacture no human
hands touch the materials that enter
into the manufacture of either the
drinks or the extracts.
In the big room in which the several
well known brands of drinks are man
ufactured the entire work is done by
machinery. In a huge 100 gallon cop
per tank from the purest of sugar is
manufactured the syrup. When readE
this is pumped into huge porcelain Jars
where it remains until wanted in
greater or lesser quantities. 1t is then
transferred to copper receptacles for
transportation to the bOttiing machine
Some idea of the magnitude of the
hottling business may be obtained from
the statement that tle concern has in
almost constant use about $4,000 cases
that contain four dozen bottles each.
4 little mathematical calculation will
give the total number of bottles, emp
" and full, in transit or in storage
constantly.
The bottles are placed in machine
which plunges them into a strong
cleansing solution, where they remain
veved to a rinsing bath, the insides of
| tne bottles being rinsed with hot water
and the outside with cold.
From this machine they 90 on a con.
veyor to the bottling machine II
the top of this is the receptacle contain
| ing the mixture that is being bottled
| at the time and in another the carbon
! ated water. Automatically teh ma
! chine places in each bottle the exac-
! amount Of syrup required and fills i
with carbonated water and caps it with
| the metal cap. The convevor then car
ries the bottles to the next machine
where labels are placed ON each bottle
| One man is at each machine and tat
! speed with which the bottles are fillet
is astonishing. The capacity of tn,
plant is about 200 cases a day and il
warm weather there is hardly a da,
that there Is any surplus stock OF
/ hand.
The bottling department for tn
drinks has its busy season but the ex
tract department is busy all the time
In another division of the plant is tn
room devoted to the making of tn
household extracts that for the last 4
years nave had a steadily increasing
sale.
The company has three travelin
statesmen on the road constantly an
covers all of Vermont, nearly all of Ner
hampshire eastern Massachusetts an
a part of northern New York TIL
company anticipates that this year vii
far exceed in point of business an
previous year since the industry wa
started on a small scale.