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Samsondale Iron Works
| Firmenname | Samsondale Iron Works |
| Ortssitz | Haverstraw (USA) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Eisenwerk |
| Anmerkungen | 1868/76: John Peck, Eigentümer. 1876: 4 single puddling furnaces, 5 heating furnaces, and 4 trains of rolls (one 8 and one 16-inch bar, and one 16 and one 20-inch sheet); steam and water power; product, rods, bars, and sheet iron; annual capacity, 3.000 net tons; average make, 1.000 tons. |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 483] [Ironworks of the United States (1876) 70] |
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| 1832 |
Das alte in Wales, auf der Gießerei von "Ottawa, Wennington & Co." gebaute Walzwerk wird durch Elisha Peck in die USA gebracht. |
| 1832 |
Bau des Walzwerks |
| 1864 |
Der Verbrauch beträgt etwa 1.300 Tonnen Eisen, 550 Tonnen Cheeve-Erz und 2.500 Tonnen Cumberland-Kohle. |
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| Walzprofile |
1876 |
[Ironworks of U.S. (1876)] |
1876 |
[Ironworks of U.S. (1876)] |
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| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | Near Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York, are celebrated for the manufacture of a superior quality of thin Sheet Iron. They consist of two Rolling Mills, which contain seven single Puddling Furnaces, four Heating Furnaces, four trains of Rolls, one Jaw Squeezer, two Engines, and one Waterwheel. The old mill was built in Wales, at the foundry of Ottawa, Wennington & Co., and brought to the United States, by Elisha Peck, in 1832. At that time, it was regarded as one of the finest rolling mills in the country. It is constructed of iron, and has recently been thoroughly repaired. The Sheet Mill is new, and nearly doubles the former capacity of the Works. The old Sheet Train is run by an overshot wheel made entirely of iron, twenty-four feet in diameter and fourteen feet face. The shaft is of cast-iron, about two feet in diameter, and hollow, the base of the shaft being about fifteen inches. The arms and frame are of cast-iron, the gudgeons of wrought-iron, and the buckets of plate-iron, curved. The bar and new Sheet Train are run by a horizontal high-pressure engine, rated at two hundred horse-power. The cylinder is thirty inches in diameter, and the stroke of the piston six feet. The guide mill train is run by a forty-horse high pressure beam-engine of eighteen inch cylinder and three feet stroke. Blowing is done either by steam or by water. The steam is supplied by ten boilers, four of them being from thirty-two to thirty-six feet long, forty-four inches in diameter, and the others are plain cylinders, twenty feet long and thirty inches in diameter, all connected with the furnaces. Though the specialty of these Works is the manufacture of thin Sheet Iron, all grades can be rolled, from No. 29 wire gauge up to boiler-plate if necessary. The bar train is now used for rolling bars to be afterward rolled into sheets. The capacity of the mill for thin sheet is about twenty-eight hundred tons a year, and for heavy sheet and bar about forty-five hundred tons. The iron used is chiefly Anthracite Pig No. 1, with a little Charcoal Pig. The coal for puddling is generally Cumberland, and Anthracite for heating. In 1864, the consumption was about thirteen hundred tons iron, five hundred and fifty tons Cheever ore, and twenty-five hundred tons Cumberland coal. Mr. John Peck, the proprietor, has been connected with the Works since their erection. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 483] |
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