The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-04-16
EQUIPMENT
PLACED nv BARRE
Air Compressors Bought BY Many
Granite Firms, Showing Steady
Growth of the Industry.

Growth of the Industry.
As showing the steady growth of the
granite industry and the increased use
of air in it the list of recent installa-
tions and purchases of air compressors
as given below is very significant.
Trow & Holden have purchased
through Reynolds & Son, Leyner
sharpening machine for making four
point surface cutter tools. This will
increase their output about 200 per
cent. They will also make all kinds of
hollow drill bits for quarry work, max
ing the goods by machinery instead OF
! by hand. Made in Littleton, Colo,
George Il, LeyHer Go.
New eompressors have been installed
during the winter and are all operating
in the following plants: d. X. Lille,
Presbrey Coykendall company, Steel
Granite company, Waldron Shield.
A large direct connected compressor
for the quarry firm of L. L. Smith &
Co., has been shipped several weeks
but is held up somewhere en- route TO
Barre. This equipment is needed very
much at their quarries, as their new
plant has been started and they are
waiting to install this new machinery.
The firm of d. K. Lille has recently
installed an Ingersoll Rand compressor
of type XB:; 446 cubic feet air per
minute, using 75-horsepower motor.
The Steel Granite company has pur-
chased a 446foot Ingersoll Rand com
pressor for its plant on West street.
This machine will be driven by the
General Electric 2,200-vot, 75-horse-
power motor, with short belt drive.
Waldron Shield is installing one of
the latest types of Ingersoll Rand com
pressors. 1t win furnish air for the
new plant he contemplates building at
once II will furnish 900 feet of air
and is run by $50 Westinghouse, 1900
volt motor, short belt drive and is one
of the latest machines built by this
company. 1t began operation Jan. j,
1920.
The Presbrey .Coykendall company
has recently purchased one of the most
modern types of eompressors made, be-
ing the first company in the granite
belt to install direct connected ma
chine. The machine is called the heavy
duty duplex direct connected electric
driven air compressor II is operat tied
by one of the sef-starting synchron-
Gus motors. This machine has a ca
pacity Of l,030 feet at full load, 772
feet at three quarters load and 5l5
feet at half load. Break horsepower
requires 2l0 at full load, 1915 at three
quarter load and lbs at half load The |
motor is made by the Westinghouse !
III = ,F gbntv. 10 -,
This particular machine will be one of |
the most up-to-date in New England |
Mr.. Magnaghi will be busy for the next I
few months showing his new equip |
ment.
Comolli 4 Company are planning an
extensive Improvement for their plant. |
They are to install a 600foot Inger.
soil Rand compressor which takes a
2 ,200-volt motor Of 100 horsepower to
operate, They contemplate making
several other Improvements, including
a new heating plant
Anderson & Friberg are to install
B00-f foot lngersol- Rand compressor OF
the latest type in the new plant which
they are going to start building at
once.
Burke Brothers are planning extern
sive Improvements to their plant They
nave already bought a new compressor
u Reynolds & Son giving them more
,ir for their steadily growing bust
ness.
T.. !. Batchelder & Co. have pur-
.hased modern steel building to in
tall the new Ingersol- Rand compress.
ior recently bought through the local
agents. This machine will give them
more efficiency to their growing bust
less.
Mari & Gordon company. one I'm.
,eria duplex, short belt drive com.
lressor; air capacity l,l90 cubic feet
yer minute; horsepower motor.
This is the largest short belt drive
compressor in the Barre district The /
Iiameter Of the fly wheel is 90 inches,
nd it takes a 2S-inch belt to run IT,
The machine was sold and delivered !
eady 70 place in 10 days
New equipments sold in the Barre
istrict since January arc;
The Roux Granite company has pur .
hased an Ingersoll Rand compressor,
living them 327 feet Of air This is an ]
Increase OF several feet OF air TO take J.
are OF their growing business.
Provost s. Son Of West Berlin have
Of Reynolds & Son large '
ompressor TO take care Of their grow
~ wants Of more air. This machine 4
i'll take care Of two gangs of men
nd two large surface cutters