The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-13
WiIIefs Clay Company Has Underwood Plant We'll IN
der Way and It Will Be Started In a Week
or Two
WORKING OF THE DETAILS AT OVENS PLANT
Cuban Outfit There is Making Gas But Number
C'-~~ges IN Minor Particulars Are
Being Made.

Another new producer soon may be
added to the list OF three nearly ready
cooperate In the city-the Underwood
Producer, almost completed at the
1WfHetts Clay company factory An
expert from Dayton. Ohio, will appear
in the city in about two weeks to fire
this fourth producer which IS vastly
dtferent In style from any OF the 9th
er three in the city. While it is the
smallest, about ten million feet OF gas
VIII be made q month, nothing un-
foreSeen occurring.
The producer is built in two sepa-
rate sections OF red brick consisting
offour furnaces each. Three men viii
be employed to run both sections. The
brick part OF the producer is finished
and aroof over the top will go on next
From the top, coal will be sho-eied in
on the same principle as other pro-
ducers here. Measurement OF the pro-
Queer covers somewhere near 20 10
SO feet.
n. P. Wfuett, president OF the COM
pany, and P. G. Willett, vice president
are both in the city at present super
intending work in the building o. the
producer and also attending 70 some
changes in machinery in the factory
! No gas is used in the factory build
ing and producers will furnish gas
I merely for the six kilns outside which
beke all the clay pottery The VII
lets company make clay parts for glass
house furnaces.
Proaress at Bottle Works.
William Jacobs, of Toledo, Ohio, eX-
pert engineer. who has been in the
city a number OF days firing the Cuban
Producer being tried out in connection
with Number 6 furnace at the Overs
Bottle Machine company, expects 10
remain in the city until various difti-
cuIties in connection with the proper
running Of the producer are mastered
Gas producers are bound to pass
through various phases OF trouble and
many adjustments will be found nee
eSsary before satisfaction in every re-
spect can be guaranteed. The expert
nnent, for such It Is in this country. OF
making coal yield more than were heat
uufts BY simple combustion, will call
for the most expert attention to eyerJ
betan Of the working machinery and
equipment. Many small failures are
bound to result and changes will have
to be made to meet unforeseen emer-
zencieS. The various industries about
the city are watching and hoping for
the best In the new has making plants
and trusting in the old adage: "AlFs
well. that ends we'll"
The Cuban producer. the first Of its
Kind In the United States, stands built
entirely of sheet-iron. at the extreme
right end of the Owens Bottle Machine
FACTORY. It is an exceptionally inter
esting building with windows on all
sides md built on two floors. The
lower floor contains eight furnaces or
producers looking very much like
home base burners viewed through a
gIowina, omen door. These stoves,
speakinp untechnfcaIly. stand in a row,
one beside the other. It REQUIRES three
man 10 attend TO them with an add;-
t5onaI asF Theeler- On the floor above
reached from the outside bv an auto
matte electric car. one entire aide of
fhe room IL piled with coal. The car
s carries the coal directly from the rail.
noad tracks at the back mn a. ruuu;nc
jnciISe. On the opposite side of the
roon1 stands is hoppers. LOOKING much
Ifke enlarEed base burner tons. Two
bonners to each nroducer are called
mil Through these hoppers- The
S,eal e shoyeled into the red-hot fur.
S.se sas9s e :s s5s unit in ss'
: The8a CHANGES consist In moving, the