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J. B. & J. M. Cornell
| Name | J. B. & J. M. Cornell |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Centre Street 141 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Eisenwarenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Adresse: 141 Centre and 526 West Twenty-sixth Street. 1868: "J. B. & W. W. Cornell" mit neuer Gießerei in der Twenty-sixth Street. |
| Quellenangaben | [Wiley: American iron trade manual (1874) 99] [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 145] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1847 |
Die beiden Brüder beginnen nach einer Lehrzeit von sechs Jahren ihr Geschäft mit einem kleinen Kapital und beschäftigen anfangs nur einen Mann und einen Jungen. |
| 12.09.1854 |
Patent für die Verbindung Blech-Rolläden für Schaufenster |
| 1856 |
Patenterteilung für eine Metalloberfläche als Putzträger |
| 1859 |
Bau einer neuen Gießerei an der Twenty-sixth Street, zwischen Tenth und Eleventh Avenues |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Eisenbauten |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: Iron buildings |
| Eisendächer |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
"patented mansard iron roofs" |
| Stahltüren |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
aus Eisen |
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | New York has, in this establishment, the largest and most completely equipped Works in the United States for the construction of Fire-proof buildings. They date their origin from 1847, when the two brothers, after having served an apprenticeship of about six years, commenced business with a small capital, and employed, at first, only one man and a boy. They now employ about five hundred men, and occupy, with their foundries and workshops, twenty-six city lots of ground. The old or original manufactory is located on Centre street, on which it has a front of two hundred feet, and extending back one hundred feet; the new foundry, erected in 1859, is located on Twenty-sixth street, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, and is four hundred and twenty-five feet by one hundred, and from one to four stories in height. The moulding floor has a superficial area of fifteen thousand square feet. Less than twenty years ago, there was probably not a building in the United States occupying a plot of ground say one hundred feet square, in the construction of which as much as ten thousand dollars' worth of iron was used. Now there are several that contain from two to three hundred thousand dollars' worth of Iron-work. The first buildings in this country rendered fire-proof by the use of wrought-iron girders and beams for floors, were the United States Custom House at Savannah, and the Sun and Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, and Seamen's Savings Bank of New York. That this very large increase in the use of iron for fire-proof buildings is, in part, attributable to the improvements made by Messrs. Cornell, is evident from the fact that much of the work used is manufactured under patents granted to them, of which about twenty have been issued to them during the last twelve years. One of the first patents that we find credited on the records of the Patent Office to J. B. Cornell, is for an improved manner of uniting the sheet metal slats of revolving shutters for store fronts. This was patented September 12, 1854. In 1856, he received a patent for a new and improved plaster-supporting metallic surface, to be used in the construction of fire and burglar-proof plastered partitions. This was followed by a very valuable invention for a continuous corrugated sheet lathing, constituting fire-proof partitions and ceilings. Previous to this invention, it was usual to support a plastered surface of a partition or ceiling by narrow metallic strips, arranged with intervals between the edges for the plaster to pass through; but Mr. Cornell improved upon this by so arranging sheets of iron as to leave no open-lags for the plaster to pass, and form retaining locks upon the inner surface, consequently rendering them in every way more safe and secure. It was in this way, by the exercise of mind in invention and valuable improvements, that the great work of popularizing iron as a building material was accomplished. It is believed that the buildings of the Mutual Life Insurance of New York, and the New York Stock Exchange, recently completed by this firm, are the most complete and perfect fire-proof buildings in the United States. The beams, girders, roof, and studding for ceilings and partitions, are all constructed of iron, of which over two hundred thousand dollars' worth was used in each structure. The New York Herald building, now being erected by the Messrs. Cornell, will also be of iron and fire-proof. Among the specialties manufactured by this firm, and extensively used, are burglar-proof safes, made in accordance with a patent issued to Ira L. Cady in 1858. Rivets, which are a vulnerable point in safes generally, are dispensed with in these, as they are formed by pouring in a stream of molten iron between plates of wrought-iron perforated and counter-sunk. The molten iron, coming in contact with the wrought, is chilled, and the combination, especially when several plates are thus cemented together, as in their first-class Safes, has thus far, we understand, proved impregnable to the assaults of the most ingenious and determined burglars. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 145] |
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