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New Howe Machine Co.
| Firmenname | New Howe Machine Co. |
| Ortssitz | Glasgow |
| Ortsteil | Bridgeton |
| Art des Unternehmens | Nähmaschinenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Siehe auch das Hauptwerk "Howe Sewing Machine Manufactory" in Bridgeport (Connecticut). |
| Quellenangaben | [Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1895) 491] |
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Howe Sewing Machine Manufactory |
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| ZEIT | 1895 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The buildings, which were originally erected by the Howe Sewing-Machine Co., cover an area of 6,500 square feet. The main building is five storeys high, and is equipped with machinery for the manufacture of cycles. On the ground floor are the tool shop, and press room with nine power-presses for punching and pressing from the sheet, the smithy with one 10-cwt. drop-hammer, seven at 3 cwts., and one 30-cwt. steam-hammer, and the various trimming machines for making drop forgings; this class of work is also done for other trades.
On the ground floor is also the foundry, where castings are made in steel, cast-iron, cast-malleable, brass, and aluminium. Here also are the case-hardening, brazing, and enamelling shops. The power for the machine shops is derived from a pair of horizontal Corliss engines, having 24-inch cylinders and 4 feet stroke, and supplied with steam at 70 lbs. pressure per square inch from three Lancashire boilers. The plating shop is also on the ground floor, with plating vats for copper and nickel.
On the first and second floors are the frame and wheel builders, tire department, ornamenting room, and the buffing department for preparing the various parts for polishing and nickel plating.
The third and fourth floors are utilised as machining shops, where the component parts are turned, bored, and milled, each part being done in jigs or fixtures to ensure perfect interchangeability. Chain and tooth wheels are cut by automatic milling-machines. On these floors are also monitors for making screws, studs, balls, &c., turret lathes for the manufacture of the larger parts from the bar, and machinery for turning out the chains.
The stores for all finished and partly finished parts are on the third floor, whence they can conveniently be despatched quickly to every portion of the factory. The works are capable of tensing out 500 cycles a week, besides castings, forgings, and pressed work for all trades. |
| QUELLE | [Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1895) 491] |
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