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Stuart, Peterson & Co., Spring Garden Stove & Hollow Ware Works
| Firmenname | Stuart, Peterson & Co., Spring Garden Stove & Hollow Ware Works |
| Ortssitz | Philadelphia (Penns.) |
| Straße | Noble Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Ofen- und Geschirrfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Bei [Hexamer] mit dem Zusatz "Spring Garden Stove & Hollow Ware Works". Lage: Broad Street, Noble Street, Hamilton Street und 13th Street (MOst-Ecke). Mit Eisengießerei, Verzinnerei und Emailliererei. |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 33] [Hexamer General Surveys, Plates 846+847 (1875)] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1844 |
Gründung |
| 1870 |
Bau des Lagerhauses an der Broad Street |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Gußwaren |
1875 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
1875 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
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| Herde |
1875 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
1875 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
Vorgabe "stoves" |
| Metallgeschirr |
1875 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
1875 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
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| Öfen |
1875 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
1875 |
[Hexamer Surveys] |
Vorgabe "stoves" |
| Zeit |
Objekt |
Anz. |
Betriebsteil |
Hersteller |
Kennwert |
Wert |
[...] |
Beschreibung |
Verwendung |
| 1875 |
Dampfkessel |
2 |
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unbekannt |
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| Zeit |
gesamt |
Arbeiter |
Angest. |
Lehrl. |
Kommentar |
| 1875 |
300 |
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240 Männer, 60 Jungen |
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | Is one of the few extensive establishments that have as yet been erected in America, for the manufacture of the great variety of useful articles known as Hollow Ware, a term so comprehensive that it includes a diminutive saucepan and an immense Caldron. The foundry is located on Noble street above Thirteenth, and occupies an area of sixty thousand square feet, requiring to cover it an acre and a half of slate roofing. The moulding floor is in the form of a square, having a superficial area of 22.500 square feet. The quantity of iron annually used here is about 4.000 tons, consisting principally of that produced at the Thomas Iron-Works, at Catasauqua, which, in combination with the Leesport iron, is found to make a superior metal for fine castings. About three hundred workmen are furnished employment throughout the year. The establishment, however, is not so noteworthy for its extent as for the new and improved processes adopted, especially in finishing, enamelling, and tinning iron ware. In these particulars this firm have so completely surpassed their foreign competitors, that articles of their manufacture have a marked preference in all markets. In the process of finishing, preparatory to enamelling or tinning, this firm have a peculiar advantage in consequence of owning the monopoly of an ingeniously constructed lathe, on which they expended over $20.000, and which performs its work in a most satisfactory manner. To illustrate - a vessel,, whether it be a saucepan or a kettle, when it leaves the mould is necessarily rough, requiring the exterior to be improved and the interior to be bright and uniformly smooth. This process in England is performed in a hand lathe, the workman using a chisel or tool, with his hand upon a rest; but this has the disadvantage of not securing entire uniformity of surface, and the workmen thus employed suffer in health from inhaling minute particles of the iron. In Messrs. Stuart & Peterson's foundry, however, a vessel, after having been annealed, is put into the lathe referred to, in which a tool is fixed that conforms to all the irregularities of the surface, automatically making the inside bright and smooth, and when this work is done stops, as if of its own accord. The enamelling process is also peculiar to this establishment, and to describe it we will borrow the language of one who, being himself a foreigner, wrote, it may be presumed, without partiality, in favor of American manufactures : The interior of the hollow ware, as prepared by the steam lathe, is covered with a white paste, and put into the oven to be dried. After drying, it is transferred to an enamelling oven, where a white heat, sufficient to melt glass, is applied, which fuses this coating, making it soft as liquid glass. While in this state it is swiftly taken from the oven, rapidly covered with a white powder, and immediately returned back to the oven, where it is again subjected to a white heat, and finally taken out to be gradually cooled in the opeu air. The enamel is, in fact, a regular coating of porcelain upon the metal, and with ordinary care is imperishable. On the contrary, the enamelled iron ware made in England (which has been nearly driven out of American consumption by Stuart & Peterson's manufacture) finally runs into an infinitesimal number of minute cracks, which chip off and render the vessel quite useless. Hollow iron ware is tinned in the following manner : The best Government Banca tin is melted in a cast-iron vessel, with a portion of sal-ammoniac, and is then rubbed on the inside surface with a cork, after it has left the lathe, until a thorough amalgamation takes place by the chemical affinity of both metals. The outside of each vessel is Japanned with a preparation, fixed by heat, which leaves no smell, while the ordinary gas tar, generally used, invariably does. The variety of vessels to which the patent enamel is applied is very great; saucepans, boilers, stewpans, sugar moulds, evaporating dishes, kettles, glue pots, skillets, pie plates, porringers, stove spiders, wash hand basins, soup and saucepan digesters, milkpans, spittoons, and so on, far too numerous to reckon up here. The tinned or patent metal hollow ware also includes a large variety of vessels. As for the plain turned hollow ware, the number of articles is great indeed. What is called "ton hollow ware" is made chiefly for the Southern market, and so called because it is sold by the ton of 2.240 Ibs. Cauldrons, sugar pans, counter scales, twine boxes, drying-presses, furnaces, coffee roasters, waffle-irons, sinks, lamp posts, street lamps, fire dogs, etc., are all made here of cast-iron; so are corn and cob and meal mills, and lever mills, chiefly used South. Besides hollow ware, Messrs. Stuart & Peterson are largely engaged in the manufacture of Stoves, of which they make as many as five hundred a week, or twenty-seven thousand a year. This is a branch of manufactures, in which Philadelphia, by reason of her proximity to the ore beds, producing the iron best adapted for the purpose, has peculiar advantages, and it is estimated that at least fifteen thousand tons of Stoves are annually made in this city. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 33] |
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