Automatic Gathering of Glass; New Machines by Homer Brooke

Automatic Gathering of Glass.

During the present week Mr. Homer Brooke, of 42 Broadway, New York City, was circulating among glass manufacturers in the Pittsburg district, and incidentally discussing a method which he has patented for conveying automatically molten metal to machines. Mr. Brooke is well known to glass manufacturers, especially the older generation, he having devoted his life mainly to the manufacture of glass and glasshouse molds. When eight years of age he entered the Jersey City Glass Works, whereat his father was a master mechanic. The firm went out of existence in 1867, following which father and son engaged in the mold-making business in New York, which business was successfully carried on for many years, the son succeeded to the proprietorship of the mold shop on the death of the elder Brooke. Mr. Brooke advises us that he has devised a means of conveying molten metal automatically to glass machines, and that by his gathering process 15 to 20 articles per minute can be made. He states that only slight changes at the ring hole of furnaces is required; that his invention is protected by patents, and that it may be obtained on a low royalty, with sufficient protection to the licensee. In brief, he says that his device is "inexpensive, does not wear out, tire, strike or cause wage disputes."