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Eagleton Manufacturing Company
| Firmenname | Eagleton Manufacturing Company |
| Ortssitz | New York (N.Y.) |
| Straße | Twenty-second Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Drahtfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Lage: Twenty-second Street, zwischen First und Second Avenues, die "Brooklyn Wire Mills" in South Brooklyn. |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 208] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1849 |
J. J. Eagleton ist seither in der Drahtherstellung engangiert. |
| 1864 |
Eintragung |
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | Are the largest manufacturers of Iron and Cast Steel Wire, for all uses, in the State of New York. The Company have two mills employed in the manufacture, the principal one, known as the "Eagle Wire Mills", being located on Twenty-second Street, between First and Second Avenues, and the "Brooklyn Wire Mills", in South Brooklyn. The former covers the greater part of six city lots, containing fifteen thousand square feet, and is five stories in height. In the numerous rooms there are nearly two hundred wire blocks, principally employed in drawing Steel Wire of all sizes, including about forty machines for drawing very Fine Wire, some as fine as No. 36. The machinery is propelled by an engine of two hundred and fifty horse power, through the agency of an immense belt three feet in width. In the boiler room there are six boilers of large size. The annealing ovens have a capacity for annealing seventy-two thousand pounds of steel a day. This is converted principally into Crinoline Wire, of which great quantities are made; and this is one of the few establishments in the United States where may be witnessed all the operations incidental to converting a rough bar of steel into a finished Hoop Skirt. In close proximity to the Wire Mills are the "Eagle Skirt Works", owned by this company, where about two hundred dozen Skirts are finished weekly. The scene presented in the rooms where fifteen hundred Braiding Machines are employed in covering the Wire, and a half dozen Jacquard Looms are busy in weaving the Tape, is one of unusual interest and animation. Each Skirt in the process of manufacture passes through eighteen or twenty hands before it is ready for market. In the mill in South Brooklyn, Iron Wire is principally made. The building is of brick, one hundred and eighty-six feet long by one hundred and ten wide, and the machinery is of sufficient capacity to turn out seven tons of Wire daily. Telegraphic Wire, galvanized and plain, is made here, but the leading item of production is Spring Wire, which is manufactured into Sofa and Furniture Springs in the upper rooms of the Company's Warehouse, 81 John street, New York. The Eagleton Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1864, but its President, J. J. Eagleton, has been engaged in the. Wire manufacture since 1849. This enterprising Company employs from six hundred to seven hundred hands. The present officers are, J. J. Eagleton, President; E. G. Angell, Treasurer; and R. A. Peck, General Superintendent. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 208] |
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