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1906 Article-John S. Oram Barrel Machinery, Barrel Hooper |
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The National Coopers' Journal May 1906, pg 2 |
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12/27/2011 7:54:51 PM |
Oram's Latest Improved Hooper — John S. Oram of Cleveland, Ohio, told the EDITOR of the JOURNAL recently that there is no such thing as standing still in the manufacture of cooperage machinery or anything else for that matter, so that if you didn’t improve, you would surely go back. Now Mr. Oram does not believe in going back and so he sends us a cut showing the “Latest Improved Hooper” with a little motor attached that will hustle out the barrels as fast as they can be handled. This hooper has always been extremely popular but as it is now improved there will be many added to the hundreds now in use.
As it is now furnished it drives 1/8 to 1-1 barrels without any change whatever in arms or head, which will lie recognized at once as a great improvement. The screw has been enlarged from 3½" to 4." The roller bearing from 6" to 7" diameter. The driver head is larger in diameter, deeper through the center, giving an extra inch of thread.
The weights are heavier, causing the arms to hug the barrel tighter, and yet the leverage on the arms has been increased, so that they operate quite as easy. Several hundred pounds has been added to the weight, distributed where it will do the most good. Speed is the same as the old, but if you want a high speed machine, run it as fast as you please.
We have eliminated all little bolts, screws, springs, etc., etc., with which so many machines are hampered, creating continual expense for repairs. For new work, we can attach at little extra expense, a plate underneath the driver head, with which the head hoops are driven. When writing for price, etc., give size of kegs, and barrels, as follows: Diameter at end, distance from top of keg to top of bilge hoop, diameter at bilge on the largest barrel, or hogshead. Of course, when for the ordinary 1/8 to 1-1 beer barrel or keg, this is not necessary.
"Remember," says Mr. Oram, "we are the original inventors of this machine, and while frantic efforts have been made to build something equal to it, at home and abroad, we are still far ahead in sales, quality, efficiency, and the price same as heretofore, notwithstanding the improvements."
For any further particular’s regarding this or any of the Oram Machines write to John S. Oram, Coe and Wilkes Streets, Cleveland, Ohio, or if you prefer latest catalogue |
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1906 John S. Oram Barrel Machinery, Barrel Hooper
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