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Herring & Co.
| Name | Herring & Co. |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Ninth Avenue |
| Art des Unternehmens | Tresorfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | An der Vereinigung von Ninth Avenue mit der Hudson Street; Gießerei: 740 Greenwich Street. |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 146] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1851 |
Ausstellung von Herring's Safes auf der Wetausstellung in London. |
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Kommentar |
| Tresore |
1868 |
[Bishop: Hist. of Amer. manuf. I (1868)] |
1868 |
[Bishop: Hist. of Amer. manuf. I (1868)] |
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| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | Is one of the most prominent of the manufacturing establishments in the western part of the city of New York. It is located at the junction of Ninth avenue with Hudson street, and extends from Thirteenth to Fourteenth street. The building is five stories in height, with a basement, and each floor is divided into apartments for work of a special kind; the second floor being appropriated more especially for the construction of Burglar-proof Safes, while the ordinary fire-proofs are made principally on the fourth floor, and the locks, and vaults, and vault doors on the fifth floor. The engine that propels the machinery is in the basement, where are also the kilns, and a shears, operated by steam, for cutting boiler plates. Here the bar and plate iron is stored, und the japanning is executed. The first floor is divided into rooms for filling, for painting, the offices, and a wareroom for finished safes. The cabinet work is executed in an adjacent four story building, separated from the main structure by a fire-proof wall, and the foundry work in a distinct establishment, at 740 Greenwich street. Besides these establishments, the firm have manufactories at Philadelphia and Chicago, and employ in all about four hundred persons. In 1851, at the London Exhibition, Mr. Herring's safes were exhibited, and European manufacturers challenged to a trial by fire; but none of them manifested a desire to accept this test of comparative merit. Two hundred pounds sterling were placed in the safe drawer; and a notice put up that the money was at the service of any one who could obtain it with or without the keys; but no one became any more wealthy by the offer. In 1850, a chemist of Philadelphia having discovered that carbonated chalk, a residuum in the manufacture of mineral water, was superior to any other substance then known as a non-conductor of heat and a resistant of fire, Mr. Herring purchased the secret, patented it, and commenced the manufacture of what has since had great celebrity as Herring's Patent or Champion Safe. Nearly fifty thousand of these safes have been manufactured and sold, and as they have passed through many devastating conflagrations, and preserved books and securities amounting in the aggregate to millions of dollars, the confidence of commercial men in their value is firmly established. But besides the construction of safes designed to be a security from fire, this firm have given much attention within a few years to the manufacture of Burglar-proof Safes, Yaults, and Chests. In this department, it is probable, they are without a rival in the world. A Safe, made as they make their first-class Banker's Safes, must be invulnerable to any attacks within the resources and time afforded to any burglar, however accomplished. Among the specialties employed in their construction, is a peculiar material made from Franklinite ore, found in Sussex county, New Jersey, which possesses a hardness exceeding that of the finest tempered steel, and marks glass with the facility of a diamond. This metal, often presenting the appearance of beautifully crystallized silver, is so interwoven with wrought-iron rods that it can be battered until bent without being broken, and at the same time the combination of wrought and crystallized iron is such that, in any attempt to drill, the tool will pierce the soft metal faster than the hard, and, consequently, working sideways, will soon have its point fractured or broken off. A first-class Banker's Chest, as constructed by this firm, consists of three casings of one fourth inch wrought-iron with angle corners, a casing of one fourth inch steel bars, a casing of one fourth inch wrought bars with angle of solid corners, a casing of patent crystallized iron two inches thick, with wrought-iron rods cast through it and projecting rivets on both sides, so that the entire thickness is three and one fourth inches. Such a Safe will not only overcome any drill or cutting tool, but is also a resistant against sledging or battering, which has been the weak point in Safes in which hardened metal has formed an integral part. These Safes are also secured by combination locks, of which the best form is the double lock, being two complete locks in one, or, in other words, it has two knobs and two dials, both of which can be set on entirely different combinations, and either one will open the lock or throw back the bolt independent of the other. This firm have the exclusive use of the Franklinite or crystallized iron in the manufacture of Safes, secured to them by letters patent. Herring's Safes are found in counting-houses in Liverpool and London, in Asia, Africa, Australia, and Mexico, and, as has been stated, nearly fifty thousand have been sold in this country. A stock of about one thousand Safes, ranging in price from one hundred to twenty-five hundred dollars, is always on hand in their warehouses ready for sale |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 146] |
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