The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1952-05-01

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plants and ten tlO) sales offices
situated in IL different COM
rnunities and owned by nearly
1000 stockholders. The Company
today is involved in the opera
ton of five separate businesses.
The Company has only recent
ly purchased the Brush Develop
ment Company in Cleveland
which is a well known research
and manufacturing organization
in the electronics field. BY this
purchase a further diversified
line of product will now be
manufactured by the Company
as a whole.
Machine Shop
At present the machine shop is
primarily concerned with main
tanning present tools, dies, jigs,
and fixtures which were origin
ally sent down from Cleveland.
However, as additional equip
ment, which is presently on
order, is received operations on
new tooling, etc., will be expand
ed considerably.
Locker Rooms
You might think that it is a
waste of space for a company to
have such large areas such as
you are about to see devoted to
locker rooms and wash rooms.
However, we feel that it is very
fundamental to each employees
sense of personal pride that he
be permitted to go home look
ing clean and neat. The Locker
Rooms make this possible. Most
people seem to be surprised by
the fact that we will pay all en-
ployees who are connected with
hot metal casting Is cents day
for taking shower before
leaving the plant.
Additional Data Regarding
bl-Mctal Line
Originally the traditional way
of casting bushings was to cast
the alloy surface into each in
dividual shell. Using this process
six (6) men would produce ap-
proximately 100 bushings per
hour. With the development of
strip casting by Graphite it be-
came possible to cast the alloy
surface onto the steel before 1t
was formed in any shape. Using
this process, six (6) men can
cast over 5000 bushingS an hour.
Developments Of this sort cost
great deal of money; disregard
ing the cost of research, strip
casting machine costs approx
mately l,250,000 dollars to build.
However, any development
which produces a better quality
and produces 5000 pieces instead
of 100 an hour soon pays for
itself and is one of the greatest
factors enabling a company to
reduce the cost of bushing
into pennies.
Technical Information
Structure:
Main Building 800 X 355';
Floor Area l13,600 So. ft.
Addition 40 80
Floor Area 5000 So. #.
Total floor area ll6,800 So. #.
Total plant area "a acres.
n pieces of machinery now in
operation.
Boiler Room:
Fuel consumption 5 tons of
coal per day in cold weather,
but will be considerably less
when recirculating equipment is
in operation.
Boiler rating: 2l4 B.H.P. per
unit. Maximum pressure Is bbsI
So. in. Normal operating pressure
7 to 8 lbisq. in. 99% of steam is
used for heating.
Capacity of coal silo 100 tons
Stack is 100 ft. high and 81 inches
in diameter.
COmpressOrs: C
Each unit driven by rs HIP.
motor. Capacity $50
Gu. ftImin. 2 stage Discharge
pressure 95-100 lbsIin.
Natural Gas Consumption:
Maximum of 10000 Gu. #. per
day.
Water:
Incoming pressure approximate
ely 148 lbs in 2 reduced to 4O-7O
lbs lin 2.
Incoming Ohio Power line
1900 0I12470 volts grd. Y 3 phase
so cycles.
Our substation transforms this
to 48O volts 3 'phase go cycles.
Power is distributed throughout
plant by means of 480 volt 3
phase bus ducts. Lighting system,