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Goldschmidt Thermit Co.
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| Name | Goldschmidt Thermit Co. |
| Ortssitz | Jersey City (N.J.) |
| Straße | Bishop Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Schweißunternehmen |
| Anmerkungen | Lage: Ecke Bishop Street / Cornelison Avenue. Hauptverwaltung in New York (s.d.). |
| Quellenangaben | [Jersey City of to-day (1906) 71] |
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1904 |
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| ZEIT | um 1906 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The works of the Goldschmidt Thermit Company are situated at the corner of Bishop Street and Cornelison Avenue, Jersey City, but the general offices are at 90 West Street, New York City. Branch offices are located in Toronto, Canada and San Francisco, California. The company was organized in 1904 for the purpose of introducing the well-known Thermit process into the United States. This process is the invention of Dr. Hans Goldschmidt, Essen-Ruhr, Germany, and relies for its efficiency upon the reaction between aluminum and iron oxide, by which
when the two are ignited, the aluminum combines with the oxygen in the iron oxide and sets the iron free. In practice the aluminum and iron oxide are prepared in a finely divided state and intimately mixed together. They are then ignited by the means of special ignition powder in a magnesialined crucible. At the end of the reaction there is formed superheated liquid steel in the lower part of the crucible while a layer of superheated liquid slag (aluminum oxide) floats on top. Advantage is taken of the very high temperature of the Thermit steel for the purpose of welding wrought iron and steel sections together, these sections being first cleaned then heated to a bright red heat by means of a gasolene torch, after which the Thermit steel is poured around them and by virtue of its very high temperature melts them up and amalgamates them to form a single homegeneous mass when cool. The principal applications of the process are for welding trolley rails in paved streets, welding locomotive frames and for other locomotive repairs in railroad shops ; welding electric motor cases and truck frames for street railways, welding large crank shafts, broken sternposts of steamships, rudder frames, anchors, gear wheels, etc. The process is also adapted to pipe welding, for which it offers many advantages as the appliances are all light and portable, permitting of the welded joints being installed at any point in the pipe line where they may be needed. No outside heat or power of any kind is required. While the great advantage of the process lies in the fact that large welding operations may be carried out without removing the broken sections from their position, the company has also worked up a general repair business at its Jersey City shops, the broken pieces being sent there to be welded. In order to handle this rapidly growing branch of the business, it became necessary two years ago to erect a special shop for the purpose. The work handled there consists largely of the repair of electric motor cases for street railway companies but also comprises the welding of crank shafts, gear wheels, anchors and other broken wrought iron and steel sections up to about 5,000 lbs in weight. In addition to the welding business, the Goldschmidt Thermit Company supplies pure metals, free from carbon, produced by the Thermit process and of great value in the crucible steel industry. Also various alloys used for deoxidizing non-ferrous metals. The process also offers many advantages when used in steel and iron foundries as it has been found that the high temperature of the Thermit reaction can be used very beneficially for reviving dull iron in the ladle and keeping the risers of castings liquid for a long period
of time, thereby cutting down the quantity of metal which has to be provided for the riser and insuring the production of castings free from defects caused by cold shuts. Thermit is used to equal advantage in steel plants for preventing piping in steel ingots. The process is represented abroad by Messrs. Th. Goldschmidt, Essen-Ruhr, Germany, and their agents all over the world and by the following affiliated concerns: in Great Britain and India by Thermit, Limited, 27 Martin's Lane, Cannon Street, London, E. C, England; in France by L'Aluminothermie, 67 Rue de Provence, Paris, and in Australia by the Australian Thermit Co. , Limited, 375 Kent Street, Sidney. The officers of the Goldschmidt Thermit Company are: President, Dr. Hans Goldschmidt, Essen-Ruhr, Germany; Vice-President, Treasurer and General Manager, E. Stutz, New York; Secretary, Hubert E. Rogers, New York. Since settling in Jersey City, the company is deeply impressed with its location as a manufacturing centre and its transportation facilities. While none of its officers reside in Jersey City, the company is a member of the Board of Trade, and is ready at all times to do what it can for the improvement of the city and the advancement of its interests. The locating of such an industry in Jersey City is a decided achievement. |
| QUELLE | [Jersey City of to-day (1906) 71] |
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