Owens-Illinois Acquires Hemingray Glass Company and The O'Neill Machine Company

OWENS-ILLINOIS ACQUIRES

HEMINGRAY GLASS CO. AND

THE O'NEILL MACHINE CO.

Contracts have been entered into for the purchase of the entire assets and business of Hemingray Glass Company of Muncie, Indiana, manufactures of glass insulators, and of substantially all the assets of The O'Neill Machine Company of Toledo, Ohio, manufacturers of glass bottle blowing machines of the vacuum type, it was announced on Mat 4th by William. E. Levis, president of Owens-Illinois Glass Company.

Hemingray Glass Company has specialized in the production of glass insulators for many years, and numbers among its customers the principal users of insulators for electric wiring in the United States. This business will become a part of the Industrial Materials Division of Owens-Illinois Glass Company, which has recently developed a number of new glass products, among them glass wool for building insulation and for air filtering installations. A glass building, now under construction at the Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago, will introduce glass block as a structural and decorative material to the public.

The O'Neill Machine Company has been engaged in the experimental development of an automatic bottle blowing machine using the vacuum or suction process of drawing glass into the molds. The acquisition settles patent litigation between Owens-Illinois and O'Neill, and is expected to strengthen the present patent position of Owens-Illinois Glass Company, and be the forerunner of further development in automatic bottle blowing machines.