Pittsburg Iron Works

Allgemeines

FirmennamePittsburg Iron Works
OrtssitzPittsburgh (Pa.)
OrtsteilWest Pittsburg
Art des UnternehmensEisenwerk
Anmerkungen1868/1876: Eigentümer: Jacob Painter & Sons.
Quellenangaben[Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 111] [Ironworks of the United States (1876) 90]




Unternehmensgeschichte

Zeit Ereignis
1802 Geburt von Jacob Painter, Seniorpartner der Firma, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, nahe Greensburg
1828 Jacob Painter läßt sich in Pittsburg als Lebensmittelgroßhändler nieder.
1833 Bau des Walzwerks
1836 Errichtung des ursprünglichen Werks durch Frederick Lorenz & James Cuddy




Produkte

Produkt ab Bem. bis Bem. Kommentar
Walzprofile 1876 [Ironworks of U.S. (1876)] 1876 [Ironworks of U.S. (1876)]  




Betriebene Dampfmaschinen

Bezeichnung Bauzeit Hersteller
Dampfmaschine um 1868 unbekannt




Firmen-Änderungen, Zusammenschüsse, Teilungen, Beteiligungen


Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt

Zeit Bezug Abfolge andere Firma Kommentar
1876 Nebenwerk zuvor Jacob Painter & Sons Stand: 1876




Allgemeines

ZEIT1868
THEMAFirmenbeschreibung
TEXTLocated in West Pittsburg, is a fair representative of the many excellent Rolling Mills and Iron Works of which Pittsburg is the centre. They were originally erected in 1836, by Frederick Lorenz & James Cuddy, and provided with ten puddling and six heating furnaces, four trains of rolls, and about twenty-five nail machines. The principal building is of frame, with iron roof, two hundred and fifty by one hundred feet; but besides this, the firm own another mill, seventy by one hundred and forty feet, and numerous out-buildings, all with iron or slate roofs, for roll turning, warehouses, etc. In connection with the Works, and the property of the firm, are about one hundred tenement houses, occupied exclusively by their employees, who number over four hundred men, and with their families make a "settlement" of over fifteen hundred persons, directly dependent upon the Works for their means of subsistence. Many of the.workmen have been especially trained for particular branches, and some have been connected with the Works fifteen and twenty years, and attained by long practice extraordinary proficiency. The machinery in the rolling mill has been greatly improved and increased within a few years, and now includes twenty-three puddling furnaces, seven heating furnaces, one sixteen-inch train of rolls, one twelve-inch, and three eight-inch, and one sheet roll (making sheets and plates up to thirty inches in width), besides a "Burden's Squeezer", and all the other late improvements to economize labor and material. The firm have a patent for the saving of the "fix" in the boiling furnaces, whereby they can save fifty per cent, over the old method. There are in the Works seven engines, of which the two largest have twenty-two inch cylinders, with fifteen feet stroke of piston, and seven boilers, each thirty feet long and forty-two inches in diameter. The products of these works consist of Merchant Bar Iron of all descriptions, Sheets and Plates, Bands, Ovals, Squares, Rounds, and Tub and Pail Hoops. Of these last-mentioned articles Messrs. Painter & Sons supply nearly all the manufacturers of wooden ware in the West and Northwest. By long experience they are able to roll all the lighter descriptions of bands and hoops to a more uniform and exact gauge and width than the imported English, and, with one exception, perhaps superior to any made in this country. The capacity of these Works is fully equal to the production of twelve thousand tons of finished iron per annum, and it is claimed that their manufactures are superior to the best English imported iron, and equal to the best American. Mr. Jacob Painter, the senior partner in the firm, was born in the year 1802, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, near the town of Greensburg. In 1828 he settled in Pittsburg, and for several years was a prominent wholesale grocer. Subsequently he became interested in the Iron manufacture, and was a partner in the firm of Lorenz, Sterling & Co., Zug, Lindsay & Co., and Zug & Painter, the former proprietors of the Pittsburg Iron Works. He has also been largely interested for many years in Charcoal Blast Furnaces in the Allegheny river region.
QUELLE[Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 111]


ZEIT1876
THEMABeschreibung
TEXTBuilt in 1833; 52 single puddling furnaces, 15 heating furnaces, and 13 trains of rolls (six 8-inch, three 10, one 12, one 16, and two 20-inch); product, principally oil, whisky, and trunk hoops, also hoops for pails, tubs, and wooden ware, cotton ties, lock iron, stone saws, merchant bands, and hinge iron; annual capacity, 24.000 net tons; average yearly production, 22.000 tons.
QUELLE[Ironworks of the United States (1876)]