January 1, 1914.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



193 



THE REMODELED STOUGHTON PLANT. 



'TPHE recent additions to the manufacturing plant of the Stough- 

 ^ ton Rubber Co.. the rearrangement of its work, and the 

 relocation of the various departments have made this one of the 

 finest establishments of its kind in the country. 





A Glimpse of the Drafting and Cut- 

 ting Department. 



I'UOTUGRAIMIIC \'lE\V OF PRESENT FACTORY. 



The picture showing the entire group of buildings is a novelty 

 in its way. Usually illustrations of this sort — called birds-eye 

 views — are carefully worked out drawings made from plans 

 and photographs of the buildings taken from the ground or from 

 buildings opposite. This, however, is not the case with this pic- 

 ture. It is from 

 an actual photo- 

 graph, taken from 

 the top of an exten- 

 sion tower m a d e 

 portable for the very 

 purpose of photo- 

 graphing from a 

 Iiigh point and thus 

 obtaining a real and 

 not a theoretical or 

 ideal picture. 



This reproduction 

 shows in the fore- 

 ground the two lat- 

 est additions. The 

 one on the left is 150 .x 50 feet, and three stories high, of concrete 

 fireproof construction, with fire walls separating its different sec- 

 tions. This building contains the offices and bookkeeping de- 

 partment, the re- 

 ceiving and shipping 

 rooms, and the in- 

 spection department. 

 All goods and sup- 

 plies are delivered 

 at the rear, where 

 an outside elevator 

 takes them to the 

 receiving room at 

 the top of the build- 

 ing. Here, with a 

 fine north light, the 

 fabrics used are 

 carefully inspected 

 and picked, and 



afterwards shrunk and finished for the calenders and spread- 

 ing machines. All goods in the entire factory go forward from 

 one process to another, with no backward step. From the inspec- 



General View of a Room Devoted to 

 "Cravenette" Rain Coats. 



A \'iE\v Showing .Stitching Tables. 



tion room the fabrics go across the bridge to the other new 

 building shown in the foreground of the picture. This new part 

 is 175 -x 45 feel, and joins the older structure, making a total 

 length of 225 feet. 

 The cloth is here 

 cut for the weather 

 coat department, the 

 cutting being done 

 by electric knives. 

 Each coat has a tag, 

 each section of 

 which bears the 

 number of the gar- 

 ment. .\ coupon is 

 taken from this tag 

 by every operator 

 who does any por- 

 tion of the work, 



and these coupons are turned in by the employe for his pay. 

 Here the trimmings for each coat are placed with the cut cloth, 

 being then sent down one story to the making department, w-here 

 the several operations by hand or machine are done ; the garment 

 next goes to the ground floor where, after being finished, it is 

 inspected and then turned over to the shipping department. It 

 is claimed for this company that it has a larger amount of floor 

 space devoted exclusively to cravenctted coats for men than any 

 other factory in the world. 



The old establishment had tlirce olil chimneys, but these have 



been replaced by a 

 fine stack of Cus- 

 todis brick 125 feet 

 high, a landmark 

 for the vicinity. A 

 rear building is de- 

 voted to the manu- 

 facture of rubber- 

 coated shp-ons. An- 

 other contains the 

 calenders and grind- 

 ers, while the build- 

 ing shown directly 

 in the rear of the 

 c h i m. n e y is the 

 spreading department, separated by a bridge from the other 

 workshops of the establishment. 



They have recently added a new power plant, resetting the 

 old boilers and installing new ones, and have put in Rice & 

 Sargent 400 H. P. equipment, doing away with the old direct- 

 gear drive and replacing it with a modern Morse Silent-drive for 

 the main line of shafting lor mills and calenders. Both the boiler 

 and engine rooms have been enlarged to accommodate this new 

 equipment, which constitutes the latest variety of power plant. 

 .\s has been said above, the company devotes itself exclusively 

 to the manufacture 

 of men's and boys' 

 rain coats and 

 weather coats of 

 cravenetted, gaber- 

 dine, worsted a n d 

 woolen fabrics and 

 rubber coats. Its 

 product goes to 

 every jiart of this 

 country and also to 

 the export trade. 

 Some idea of the 

 details of this "day- Finishing Department. 



light factory" may be formed by a study of the photographs 

 here shown of its various departments. 



^.•MJd % 



A Sectio.v of Hand Tailoring Department. 



