Owens Illinois Glass Company, Toledo, Ohio

Owens-Illinois Buys Two Concerns.

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

The 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.

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.