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1899 Article- Bullock Electric Mfg. Co., Progess in the Manufacture of Electrical Machinery |
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American Manufacturer & Iron World, V65 #1, 07 Jul 1899, pg. 1 |
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6/17/2013 9:38:53 AM |
Progress in the manufacture of Electrical machinery
The Bullock Electric Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati, has made many improvements of late in the equipment and arrangement of its works which were already among the best in the country.
In the machine shop, for instance, there are no long lines of shafting and counter—shafting and belts. Each machine is run by an independent Bullock electric motor. The cranes, power presses, lathes, planers, drills, milling machines, profilers, emery grinders, boring machines, etc., are all operated electrically. Wherever possible the motors are built into the headstocks and are designed for the special work which that particular machine has to do. The motors are of the Bullock slow-speed type, with variable speed control governed by the Bullock multiple voltage system, and the tools may be operated with six different speeds in either direction.
The testing department is equipped with all the modern appliances: for securing uniformity and excellence of construction. All the machines made by this company are subjected to rigid tests in order to comply with the specifications according to which they have been built, and no machine is allowed to go out from the Works until it conforms to the requirements in each specific case. One of the reasons why this company has prospered so in the manufacture of electric machinery is because it has set up a high standard of design and construction and has spared neither time nor expense to live up to it. The real test of machines is when they are running under the usual condition that obtain in every-day work and a testing-department that does not bear this in mind and seek to reproduce in the factory, so far as possible, the conditions of actual practice is not up to date.
The power house is provided with vertical Water tube boilers, equipped with automatic stokers. A cross compound engine directly connected to two of the Bullock type generators, supply current not only for the lighting system, but for the power transmission system used throughout the entire plant. An elaborate switchboard has been erected with the necessary electrical instruments and switches, including Recording Watt-meters registering the amount of power being used on the various circuits. A section of this building, occupying the whole southerly end, is set apart and fitted out for the employees’ lunch room. Apparatus for heating the general machine shops is located in the basement of the power house, and hot air is conveyed hence underground to its destination. |
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1899 Bullock Electric Mfg. Co., Electric Motor
1899 Bullock Electric Mfg. Co., Machine Shop View
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