[Trade Journal]
Publication: China, Glass & Lamps
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
vol. 23, no. 6, p. 7, col. 1-2
NEW BROOKLYN FACTORY.
Gleason-Tiebout Company Will Now Manufacture Insulators,
Novelties, Etc.
The Gleason-Tiebout Glass Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y., will at once erect a large modern glass factory at Maspeth, near Brooklyn, for the production of glass novelties, electric insulators and other goods. The land was recently purchased by Cornelius H. Tiebout, and was transferred by him to the Gleason-Tiebout Co.
The factory proper will be built of stone and brick, with a composition roof, supported on 85-foot steel trusses, rising at the apex to a height of 38 feet from the level of the working floor. The floor will be concrete.
The lehr building contains five large lehrs for annealing the ware, a working room and a complete machine shop for the manufacture of molds. This building, as well as the finishing department, is to be of brick and stone one story and basement. Above the floor mill construction will be used, the roof having clear story windows from end to end, giving ample light and ventilation.
The contracts just signed are for the three main buildings, glass house, lehr building and finishing department. In addition to these several auxiliary structures must be built. The three buildings are so arranged with reference to each other than from the exterior but one continuous building is shown.
There will be a 16-pot furnace of the Siemen's regenerative type, operated with producer gas, and will yield a quantity of metal equal to the two furnaces now operated by this company at the Greenpoint plant. One of the furnaces, it may be of interest to note, was one of the first, if not the very first, furnace of this kind designed for the melting of glass erected in the United States.
The lehrs, pot arches and mold ovens, as well as the furnace, will use gas generated in producers, which will be installed on the premisis. It is intended that all machinery will be electrically driven, and so arranged that no shafting of any kind will show in the working rooms. These rooms will be lighted, also, by electricity.
Arrangements have been made with the Long Island railroad to run its tracks into the property, thus giving ample facilities for both incoming and outgoing freight. Ground has been broken, and the enterprise will be completed without delay. When in operation this plant will employ some 300 hands, both skilled and unskilled.
The Gleason-Tiebout company will continue to operate their present plant at Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in addition to the new factory. The architect for the new building is John M. Baker of Long Island City.
