Karl Kae Knecht Cartoon

Description:	Illustrations and explanations of glass bottle production at the Graham Glass Company. Image Access WideTEK 25 K.K. Knecht at the Graham Glass Co. White Sand Broken Glass Lime Silica Soda Ash Ground coal Arsenic Decolorizes Mix these then melt at 2500 degrees Gas Air 42 in deep 35 ft. long 18 ft. wide graham oven Twist, just enough for one bottle, on a stick like taffy. Then drop in a mold and blow air-up-making hole in mass of molten glass. Air Glassworkers making bottles by machine The Graham method Glass worker drops molten ball of glass in top. Air from bottom makes hole in the mass. Molds shown open Lower mold on the machines Handles fit the neck mold so as to handle Upper mold on the machine Man changes mass and blowing continues but down The completed bottle (reversed from above) in 2d state of blowing Old conveyor Bottles run on small conveyors into the lehrs then through on large conveyor Temperature in here from 1400 degrees Fahrenheit to ordinary room temperature. Takes bottles 7 1/2 hours to go through Lehr. Being examined and sorted at discharge end of Lehr Molten glass runs out of furnace here One man now takes the place of 12 men The latest own automatic machine in the 1917 additions to the Grahams Evansville Plant. One of these machines does the work of 3 of the old type shown above It turns out 45 bottles a minute. The Old Time Way The molds are made up in the big machine shop. The lettering for bottles is engraved in the mold Every time I see a bottle I think of Grahams Evansville Ye old olden time way Gas making plant Raw material Gar gathers and mixes Elevator conveyor carries it to hopper Gas burns over top of huge oven Single man operates new machine Cooling lehr Conveyors to storage or cars The modern, up to the minute Graham Plant The Standard Product
Origin:	2013
Created By:	Karl Kae Knecht
Source:	http://digital.evpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/karlknecht/id/945
Collection:	Karl K. Knecht Collection
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Subjects:	Education Company Sketches Labor Industry Evansville (Ind.) -- History -- Caricatures and cartoons United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons Caricatures and cartoons -- United States

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