South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-30

sensible solution and they began to
make their pulleys Of layers or
broad, flat rings. each ring com
posed of segments stoutly glued to-
gether. Placing these rings. one
on top OF the other. and with glue
between layers. they were united in
a hollow cylinder. The roughed
out rim they now sawed into two
semi circular halves and fitted
across the diameter of each
thick board. dove-tailing it into
the rim. Bringing the two halves
together, they conferred the pulley
and bored the hole, always a little
smaller than the Shafting with the
idea Of clamping the hub so ter
rifiCally tight that il would stick
foreyer-Or at least, so they hoped
The pulley was then completed by
roaming out the rim, surfacing the
face. and finishing the whole con-
trivance. The pulley would be
ready To install on a shafting with
out taking down the shafting.
hangers belts, coupling or other
pulleys.
The hitch involved employed
proper principles but was some
thing Of a crude makeshift: the
planks they had used as arms had
been made 20 ft snugly. II was
found that the new type pulley
worked eXCellently at first hut in a
short time began to slip around the
shaft. Another problemi But the
new pulley really embodied a new
and improved departure in being
built to fasten To the shaft by
sheer compression.
The first scheme Of Dodge and
Phinion 10 prevent the pulley from
slipping consisted in wrapping the
shaft with paper but this was not
practical as the pulley would again
slip as soon as "A few drops of oil
was absorbed by the paper.
They worked on the problem
nights. At last came the real solu-
tion-the real idea: TO separate the
two flat arms about n quarter Of
an inch. all the while Keeping the
edges of the rim In contact Then
when the clamps were frightened
on the huh. an extra terrific pres
sure or purchase was secured: the
pulley would then cling 10 the
shaft like grim death. Built on
these principles the pulley worked
TO 1909 efficiency
Oil the lttt OF IT, Tic iutrf dI-
pears to he absurdly simple. but as
a matter of fact the idea was rad
icslly new. An addition 20 the gen
eral plan of building was the use
Of wooden bushings in connection
with a standardized sized bore for
the pulley. Forty sizes Of the bush
ings were used and these bushings
acted simply as a mediator be-
tween the pulley and various sized
ShaftinC An ANALYSIS OF what
these simple little buShinEs meant
10 industry shows that instead Of
the imDossibility OF dealer hand
ling "A stock OF 10000 pulleys, he
could now carry 1900 pulleys and
forty sizes in bushings.
OF course Dodge and Philnon
were convinced that their pulley.
which was patented on July 4th.
1882, would he a commercial
proposition.
Their early efforts to sell the new
product involves craftsmanship of
the highest order for they met
with disappointing after disap-
pointment but eventually the real
merits OF the pulley began 10 man
ifest itself and the factory-saw mill
and small machine shop began 20
grow.
The growth Of the Dodge Man
ufacturing Company has been
healthy steady and consistent
From time TO time new products
We're added, always with the view
that sometime Dodge GOODS would
constitute the only complete road
bed for power The peak was
reached years ago-tOday Dodge
manufactures the only complete
hnc Of units for tho nrcch1ntrtf
transmission OF POWER.
Every Dodge product today
and when We say Dodge product
we mean ever yunit for the me-
,ales Checks During