New Britain herald., 1921-08-30
CHARLES H. NORTON
 INVENTS MACHINE
New Grinding Apparatus Causes Economic Revolution
BLACKSMITH LOSES MONEY

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 Charles H. Norton of Red Stone Hill in Plainville is one of the fore ] most men in the grinding depart | ment of industry in the East at the present tme MT. Norton has added another success to his long list of | accomplishments in the game recent l ly when he was granted patents for ] driving and reversing mechanism which are expected to revolutionize l the grinding machine business MT. Norton is the founder of the Norton Grinding company of Green dale, Mass, which has been taken | over and subsidized by the we'll known Norton company of Worcester, Mass. At present MT. Norton's official ca racity with the company is that of Iconsulting and advisory engineer He ! ie, living in PlainvilIe where he is now l engaged in supervising the construc- l ton of his new home on the western slope of the town which overlooks Plainville from the west and has Spacious view including Meriden mountain, Pennington mountain and the Pinnacle. and Granby mountain On a clear day the capitol is to be seen from the height. Mr. Norton's active days with the company are over and he will go to Worcester once or twice a month as necessity ! may require, he has stated. He will l fit up a spacious office in his new home and will use it as a study and | lch yy1,o Ga l ther into his favored subject and l possibly add another to his list of ! inventions.
 Brothers Inventors. Both Charles Fl. Norton and his Ibrother who was connected with the
 Norton-Hendy Lathe company of Tor Irington, are inventors. His brother lpatented much of the machinery used ihy the Torrington people and was ac Hive in the management of the shop lUntil recently when he retired. The Morton family came to PlainVille in
 about 1S46 when the father settled
 in the old homestear. at the corner
 of East Main street ana Norton Place ICharles H. still retains ownership of the old family place and prizes it Ihighly.
 l Aids Auto Industry.
 ! MT. Norton's latest invention, em- Ibodied in a new grinding machine in (which he has retained the basic prin- lciples of grinding machinery which Inc invented many years ago and today Iconsidcred the foundation of the n odern industry, n-Akes it possible Ito perform faster and more efficient Iwork in cylindrical grinding. This it lis reported will be of special value H. Imany rounded shapes in car con- tstruction.
 Stocks Injury Minimized.
 ! By an ingenious mechanism, Cov- Tered by his new patents, on which MT. Norton has been working for about six years. the possibility of injuring the working stock, while being Isround, is almost entirely eliminated. In the new machine MT. Norton has placed mechanisms which make the liable start gradually and then obtain a speed before considered impossible | in a table traverse. The present rate of speed on the average grinding ma chine is 12 feet per minute. Several Iof the new machines have been con lstructed at the Massachusetts plant and are being exhibited to the trade v lpected that demands will be made, because of the demonstrations, which Twill necessitate an increased output lat the Greendale plant The princi- Iples of the machine are being taught Ito several of the Norton salesmen preparatory to placing the product on lthe general market
 His Rapid Rise.
  lbecame designer and chief engineer for the Norton Grinding company in l19OO. When at the age of 15 he en- ltered the employ of the old Seth Thomas clock company with head IQuarters in Thomaston. He worked his way to machine foreman, super Iintendent of machinery, and superin- ltendent of the tower clock depart Iment. He remained in their employ flor 20 years when he entered the |Brown & Sharpe Co.'S plant in Provi- ldence as assistant engineer. A few lyears later he became partner in lthe Leland, Faulconer & Norton com lpany with offices in Detroit. This lcompany was succeeded by the pres lent day Cadillac company. On MT. lNorton's grounds today, one can find
 only Cadillac cars, which pake he
 has used for many years
 Found Norton Co.
 His first patents for grinding ma chimes were issued about 1896 and he lcontinued putting better machines lout until 1903. It was in that year lthat the Norton Grinding company lgot it's start, using Norton's basic principles of grinding machinery for Tits foundation.
 Probably the entire automobile in- ldustry of the United States owes it's lpresent day position to the Norton lGrinding company with it's A type machines which made such work pos Isible.
 l Works Economic Revolution ,l This machinery has made possible
 the manufacture of cylindrical parts
 of great accuracy, overcoming the
 crude type of cylinder forms produced l before their advent The Norton ma