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American Screw Co.
| Name | American Screw Co. |
| Ortssitz | Providence (R.I.) |
| Straße | Eddy Street 588 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Schraubenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Adresse auch: Stephens Street 21. 1874: E. G. Angell, Präsident; W. H. Henderson, Leiter der Finanzen; A. G. Angell Agent. |
| Quellenangaben | [Pocket Book of Providence (1882); Internet] [Wiley: American iron trade manual (1874) 158] [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 386] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1860 |
Gründung ("organised") |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Nieten |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: rivets |
| Schrauben |
1860 |
Beginn (Gründung) |
1882 |
[Pocket Book] |
Vorgabe: Screws |
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | The manufacture of Wood or Gimlet-Pointed Screws, is at present a monopoly in the United States. It is carried on by but one Company, whose principal establishments are in Providence, R. I., where Screws were first made by machinery about the year 1834. The Company has its origin in the consolidation of the Companies previously engaged in the manufacture, the two principal ones being the Eagle and New England, and its success is due to the fact that it controls the best machines which have as yet been invented for cutting screws, having purchased nearly fifty patents of inventions designed to facilitate the manufacture, including all the important ones that have been made in England. The processes of manufacturing Screws, as conducted in these factories, are of marked interest, as the machines employed perform functions that one would suppose could not be executed except by dexterous manipulation. The wire out of which screws are made is all imported in coils, and the first process is to immerse it in acids, after which it is annealed, and then drawn to the proper thickness. The first of the screw-cutting machines employed cuts the wire to the length desired and cuts the head of the blanks. This is done at the rate of about 90 blanks per minute. These blanks are then removed to the second story, which is well filled with machines that perform the second operation by shaping the head of the screw and cutting with a fine saw the groove in the head, and trimming the burr. They are then carried one story higher, where are the threading or finishing machines, which give them the gimlet-point and cut the thread at the rate of about five screws per minute for each machine. Both the shaping and the finishing machines art yearly automatic. The blanks are put into hoppers - the machine extends fingers to receive them, conveys them to the cutting appatatus, holds them there the required time, and then drops the screw into a box prepared for its reception. One woman can attend probably a dozen of these machines. When finished the screws are taken to another room, where they are counted by weighing one gross and allowing the same weight to all others of the same size. About 150 hands are constantly employed in counting, sorting, and papering Screws in these factories. The American Screw Company has 625 machines, which have the capacity of making 14.000 gross of screws per day, or 4.200.000 gross during the year. It employs on an average 600 hands, 300 male and 300 female, to whom 24.000 is paid monthly as wages. The value of the screws made per year exceeds a million of dollars, the gross product in 1860 being 1.086.600. Over three thousand tons of iron are consumed in the factories, and the trimmings or chips average three tons per day. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 386] |
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