Reading Iron Works, Rolling Mill und Tube Works, Seyfert, McManus & Co.

Allgemeines

FirmennameReading Iron Works, Rolling Mill und Tube Works, Seyfert, McManus & Co.
OrtssitzReading (Pennsylvania)
StraßeSouth Street
Art des UnternehmensEisenwerk
AnmerkungenObige Firma 1875/78 bei [Hexamer]. Seit 1889: "Reading Iron Company" (s.d.). 1876: Eigentümer: Seyfert, McManus & Co. Office: Philadelphia. Lage: South Street und S. 7th Street (Südost-Ecke). 1878: Herstellung von Handelseisen, Nägeln und Stiften. Mit Dampfkraft (keine Angaben). Zahlreiche Kessel und Dampfmaschinen; Leistungen unbekannt. Hochofenwerk in der South Street und Philadelphia Reading Railroad (Nordwest-Ecke); hat 50 Beschäftigte. Siehe auch "Scott Foundry" und Sheet Mill und vergl. "Chicago Wire Works" mit H. McManus als Eigentümer.
Quellenangaben[Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 493] [Ironworks of the United States (1876) 19+80] [Hexamer General Surveys, Plates 933+936+1294-1295 (1875+1878)]




Unternehmensgeschichte

Zeit Ereignis
1836 Bau des Walzwerks als Kern der Anlage
1836 Bau des Walzwerks
1837 Inberiebnahme des Walzwerks
1847 Das Walzwerk wird erweitert und umgebaut.
1848 Bau eines Röhrenwalzwerks mit einer Kapazität von 1.800.000 Fuß Gas-, Dampf- und Wasserleitungen
1852 Inbetriebnahme des Dampf-Schmiedewerks
1853 Baubeginn der Reading Furnace, die im Eigentum der Gesellschaft ist.
1854 Fertigstellung der Reading Furnace
1854 Bau des ersten Hochofens
1858 Weitere Vergrößerung des Walzwerks
1861 Der "Scott Foundry and Machine Shop" wird in Betrieb genommen und wird bis 1867 fast ausschließlich für die Herstellung von Waffen und Geschossen genutzt.
1862 Bau des Plattenwalzwerks
1874 Bau des zweiten Hochofens
05.10.1874 Der zweite Hochofen wird angeblasen.
1886 Umbau der Hochöfen




Produkte

Produkt ab Bem. bis Bem. Kommentar
gewalztes Eisen 1876 [Ironworks of U.S. (1876)] 1876 [Ironworks of U.S. (1876)]  
Roheisen 1876 [Ironworks of U.S. (1876)] 1876 [Ironworks of U.S. (1876)]  




Betriebene Dampfmaschinen

Bezeichnung Bauzeit Hersteller
Dampfmaschine um 1837 unbekannt
Dampfgebläsemaschine vor 1857 Isaac P. Morris & Co.




Maschinelle Ausstattung

Zeit Objekt Anz. Betriebsteil Hersteller Kennwert Wert [...] Beschreibung Verwendung
1875 Dampfkessel 1   unbekannt          




Personal

Zeit gesamt Arbeiter Angest. Lehrl. Kommentar
1875 200       250 bei vollem Betrieb)
1878 200       bei vollem Betrieb: 250 Arbeiter




Firmen-Änderungen, Zusammenschüsse, Teilungen, Beteiligungen


Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt

Zeit Bezug Abfolge andere Firma Kommentar
1876 Nebenwerk zuvor Seyfert, McManus & Co. Stand: 1876




Allgemeines

ZEIT1868
THEMAFirmenbeschreibung
TEXTOwned by Seyfert, McManus & Co., incorporated by special act of the Legislature, are among the most extensive and important in the United States. They comprise a Rolling Mill, Tube Mills, Furnace, Forges, Foundry and Machine Shop, and Sheet Mill, and the operations are so comprehensive that they may be said to embrace almost every branch of the general Iron Manufacture. When in full operation, they give employment to about two thousand men. The Rolling Mill which formed the nucleus of these works, was built in 1836, and went into operation in 1837. It comprised a merchant mill, Puddle-ball mill, and a small guide mill, six puddling furnaces, three heating furnaces, twenty-four nail machines, and one spike machine, - driven by one horizontal engine twenty-four inch cylinder, and six feet stroke. The capacity was then twenty-five hundred tons per year. In 1847 the mill was enlarged and remodelled, and farther enlarged in 1858, since which time additional enlargements and improvements have been made, until now it is one of the most complete Rolling mills in the country, with a capacity of five thousand tons a year. Its products comprise Round, Square, and Flat Bar Iron, Flat Bar Railroad Iron, Half Round and Oval Iron, Hoop, Band, and Scroll Iron, Horse Shoe Iron, Rivet and Tank Iron, of the very best quality; also the celebrated "Crescent" brand of Cut Nails and Spikes, Ship and Railroad Spikes, and Boiler and Tank Rivets. The Tube Mill, is one of the most important features connected with the Reading Iron-Works. It was erected in 1848, with a capacity for manufacturing one million eight hundred thousand feet of Gas, Steam and Water Tubing; and has been annually enlarged, until, at present, it is capable of producing six million feet of wrought-iron gas, steam and water tube, from one eighth inch to eight inches diameter; and two and a half million feet of Lap-welded Boiler Flues, from one to ten inches diameter. These Boiler Flues are made of the best Pennsylvania Refined Charcoal Iron. Besides this mill, the company own the Camden Tool and Tube Works, located in Camden, New Jersey. These works are adapted to the manufacture of Wrought-iron Gas, Steam and Water Tubes, and all kinds of Machines and Tools as well as Fittings, used in Steam and Gas Fitting. The manufacture of these constitutes the chief business prosecuted at these works. The capacity of this Tube Mill is about two millions of feet per year. The Reading Furnace, owned by this company, was built in 1853 and 1854. The stack is fifty by fifty feet at base, and forty by forty feet at top, forty-nine feet high, with boshes eighteen feet. The capacity is about ten thousand tons of metal a year. The Scott Foundry And Machine Shop went into operation in 1861, and had been used until 1867 almost exclusively for the manufacture of Ordnance and Projectiles for our own and foreign governments. Guns weighing forty tons and of fifteen inch calibre have been cast and finished here, and fitted up with carriages. The Air Furnaces have a capacity of sixty tons of melted metal, the cupola furnaces of ten tons. Within the last few years, the Foundry has been very extensively employed in the manufacture of Car Wheels, and chilled and soft Rolls for Rolling and Plate mills. The Steam Forge of this company, which has been in operation since 1852, has produced the heaviest class of Forgings. Among its important tools and machines are three Nasmyth Steam Hammers, one of ten tons, one of seven and one of two and a half tons, two Kirk Hammers, one of fifteen hundred pounds, and one of seven hundred and fifty pounds, and Lathes, and Slotting Machines of the largest capacity for forging and finishing Shaftings for Marine Engines/Armor Plates, Turret Beams, Point-Stoppers, Locomotive Frames, Car axles, etc. The Shaftings for the "Adriatic", one of which weighed over forty tons, were made at this Forge, and also the Armor Plates used in the construction of the celebrated Ram, the "Dunderberg." As will be inferred, these works have the capacity for producing every kind of forging required for the largest vessels in the Naval or Merchant service. The company also own the Gibraltar Forges And Plate Mill, located a few miles southeast of Reading. At these forges are made the Charcoal Blooms used in the manufacture of the celebrated American Boiler Flues. The Plate Mill is employed almost exclusively in manufacturing Boiler Plate. Its capacity is fifteen hundred tons a year. They have also recently put in operation one of the most complete Sheet Iron Mills in the country, for rolling all kinds of Sheet Iron, Tank and Plate Iron; a Puddle bar mill, and a large merchant mill, for rolling all kinds of flat iron. They own the exclusive right of using the celebrated Lauth Patent system of Rolls, which enables them to imitate successfully, if not to equal, Russia Sheet Iron. The capacity of this mill is about thirty-eight hundred tons per year. In addition to the above operations, this company is very extensively engaged in mining iron ores and coal. Mr. John McManus, the president of the company, is actively interested in the construction of the Union Pacific Railway (Eastern Division), and is one of its directors.
QUELLE[Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 493]


ZEIT1876
THEMABeschreibung
TEXTTwo anthrazite stacks, 55 x 15 and 55 x 16, built in 1854 and 1874, respectively; the new one was first blown in October 5, 1874; bell-and-hopper tops; total annual capacity, 20.000 net tons. Betrieben mit Schuylkill Valley-Anthrazit. Rolling mill built in 1836; 12 single puddling furnaces, 4 heating furnaces, 1 rotary squeezer, 3 trains of rolls, 30 nail machines, and 2 railroad spike machines; product, cut nails, bar, band, hoop, and skelp iron; annual capacity, 5.500 net tons; average yearly product, 5.000 tons. Plate mill built in 1862; 7 double puddling furnaces, 4 heating furnaces, 1 hammer, and 4 trains of rolls; product, sheet, plate, and bar iron; annual capacity, 6.800 net tons; average yearly production, 6.000 tons.
QUELLE[Ironworks of the United States (1876)]