Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 18, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1920 — Page 13

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Section Two.

ELECTRO-TECHS A LIVE CLUB With Over 1100 Members at Fort Wayne Works Club is Very Active (JIVE entertainments Programs are Arranged to Suit All Tastes—Different Teams The Electro-Technic Club was organized by the employees of the Fort Wayne Works as a social and educational club. The educational part of the club was taken over by the General Electric Company in order to give its employees a large field for education than could be sustained by the Electro-Technic Club. The educational features of the works are described in another item. In 1917 the club was incorporated under the State Laws of Indiana as an association for charitable, literary, scientific and athletic purposes. Its officers, consist of president, vicepresident, secretary and treasurer. At the present time the club has a membership of 1100 at the Fort Wayne Works. During the season of 1919-1920 the club has given an entertainment each month for its members and also extended an invitation to one of the other clubs or associations of the works to be their guests at each event. The entertainments given by the club are varied in their scope so as to suit all tastes and consist of Redpath Lectures, dancing roller skating, card parties, smokers, and banquets. The club also supports baseball, basket ball, foot ball, bowling and rifle shooting. The rifle snooting conducted by the club is shot on the General Electric \ range in building 6 and was equipped complete by the management of the General Electric Company and donated to the different organizations of the works for their use. Our baseball, basket ball and foot ball teams represent the very best teams in the Industrial League and have won | several loving cups of which the dub members are very proud. The E. T. C. base ball team won' the “Twilight League" championship season of 1919 losing only one game

■■■■• % saaa^:| . Our Early Faith In Decatur I ■ The Rock Foundation Upon Which this Bank in Built g II K ■ — : ~E==== L=r>l J ONE OF THE RESULTS OF THIS EARLY FAITH IS THE $75,000.00 BUILDING, NOW IN COURSE H OF CONSTRUCTION, WHICH WHEN COMPLETED WILL BE ONE OF THE MOST MODERN BANK BUILDINGS IN THE COUNTRY. B UPON THIS EARLY FAITH WE HAVE ENJOYED A GROWTH THAT SELDOM COMES TO ■ BAJNKS IN CITIES THE SIZE OF DECATUR. AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS FEBRUARY 28, 1920 | OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK SHOWED RESOURCES OF $1,868,554.11 MAKING IT THE SIXTH LARGEST STATE BANK IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. ALTHOUGH THE OLDEST AND STRONGEST BANK IN ADAMS COUNTY, WE HAVE AND ALB WAYS WILL ADHERE TO THE PRINCIPLES UPON WHICH THIS BANK WAS FOUNDED, AND H THRIVED FOR SO MANY YEARS. IT'S OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS ARE MEN WHO HAVE BEEN, AND ARE, SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS MEN—MEN, WHO BUILT ON THEIR EARLY FAIT? IN DECATUR AND Bl U DEI) WELL. PAST PERFORMANCES THE YARDSTICK WITH WHICH TO MEASURE PROMISES FOR H THE FUTURE. WE HAVE FAITH IN THE FUTURE. I 11 J k. — —■ ! Old Adams County Bank I I Decatur, Indiana I I' I ' — - / bl ' ' ~~~~~~~~~~~”

out of 14. The E. T. C. football team “Industrial League" won second place; the General Electric Apprentice Association being the champs for the season 1919. The E. T. C. basketball team “Industrial League” won the championship for season 1919-1920, (losing one game?) The Inter-Department Bowling League is composed of ten clubs from the Fort Wayne Works and comprised some of the best bowlers in the city of Fort Wayne. There are numerous other activities conducted by the E. T. C. and any E. T. C. entertainment is always looked forward to with great pleasure by its members. There is a small membership fee charge of SI.OO per season, which entitles the members to free admittance to any E. T. C. entertainment. X / \ I / A \ / -life \ CHARLES N. CHRISTEN Vice-president of the Industrial Association and a conservative, live wire booster, every day in the year. I WASHING MOTOR WILL BE MANUFACTURED (Continued from page 1, section 2). castings, in additnon to the Bullard Mult-au-matic there will be a battery of nine Potter & Johnson semi-auto-matic?, which do the same work in- ; stead of six castings, as in the case of the larger machines. The work must I necessarily be very accurate, and as I soon as the machine work is done I these castings are very carefully \ checked by a corps of competent in-1 I , I

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spoctors. These castings, if passed by* the inspector, ure now delivered to, special drill presses, where the oil < reservoirs are drilled, likewise the I holes in the flange feet. This opera-* tion having been performed, the castings are placed on a special milling machine, which mills the feet. This machine is continuous in operation, and the fixture, when fully loaded, will carry twelve flanges. After the castings have been machined and inspected they are delivered to the sand blast department, where they are lor.: 1 . "J upon the revolving table of an automatic sand blast machine. This table revolves and carries the castings back under the blasts of sand which are induced by high pressure air The object of the sand blast is to remove any oil or foreign material which the castings may have accumulated and to prepare a mat surface, which is very desirable, in that it affords a much better opoprtunity for the Japan finish to adhqre to the casting. From the sand blast these castings are delivered to the japanning department, where in-J serts are put In to prevent the Japan from getting onto the machined sur-! faces. The castings are then auto- ■

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inatically sprayed with a high grade . baking japan and passed through a •continuous higli temperature baking 'oven. This finish, when completed, 1 'of a glossy black and is practically in destructible. The castings are now inspected for finish, and, if satisfac tory, the bearings, which have previously been made in the automatic screw machine department, are press ed in and the flanges delivered to th assembly department. We have now brought all parts of the motor, with the exception of th< wound rotor, to the assembly depart ment. The rotor cores, which have already been brought up to the rotot winding department, now have the slot and varnished cambric insulation put in place. This insulation is brought from the general stock room in larg' rolls, or sheets, and cut to the dimer: sions necessary. The varnished cam brie is put in place by a machine <1 signed for this particular purpose, after which the rotor is delivered to the torrent type winding machines. Thi' J type of winding machine derives itname from the turret, which carrit 'some five arbors. It is nccr-ssmiy t 'use a different arbor for each co

which is wound in place. The machine is absolutely automatic, in tTiat it ialways stopped when the correct number of turns are placed in a given lot. The first machine winds in what Is termed the main winding. After this has been completed it is inspected and tested, and, if O. K., the special Insulation is placed ovei the main winding u.t\d the rotor delivered to a second machine, which winds on what •s termed the starting winding. After •he starting winding is completed the rotor is again inspected, and, if satisfactory, is passed along to a table, where the terminals are put in place and the coils wedged in. These wedges are driven in by a device designed especially for this purpose. The work up to this point having been satisfactory, the rotor is delivered to the varnishing department, whore it is lipped in vannisli to improve the laudation and make it moisture-proof, 'nstead of placing these armatures in 1 high tempefature oven to oxidize the varnish, the heat, is obtained by passing current through tho windings This is the first attempt, to do this work in this manner on a large scale. The results, however, arc more satis-

factory than those obtained by tho use of ovens, and considerably less time is required. The rotors now have the collector rings assembled on the shaft and electrical connections made from the winding to the collector rings. The collector rings are now trued up, the outside of the rotor core ground to an accurate dimension and, after having again passed inspection, Is delivered to the assembly department. The various parts of the motor having been completed and delivered to the assembly department, it now becomes necessary to assemble these parts into a completed motor. Tht first operation of assembly consists in clamping the. bearing brackets, or flanges, to the stator. These being clamped into position, this portion is taken to a three-spindle line reaming machine, which finishes the reaming operation in the bearings and brings them into exact line. The assembled stators and flanges, together witli the completed rotor and terminal block with cables, are delivered to the assemblers. One bearing flange is now removed and the armature put in place, after which the flanges are bolt-

ed up In their final position. The terminal block, which contains the brush eg, is now secured in place and the bearings packed with waste. This waste is now saturated with lubricating oil. The completed motor is now ready for the testing department. The motors are tested for insulation to make auro that the windings uro not grounded and checked for input to see that there are no undue losses due to poor alignment of bearings. The motor is operated for a number of hours to make absolutely sure that it is satisfactory in every respect. The motor having passed nil these tests successfully, the nameplate is put in place and the motor delivered to shipping department for packing and shipping. It may be interesting to note that in the manufacture of one of the washing machine motors about 400 pieces of material are used. There are 50 pieces of different sizes, shapes or material. In taking this raw material and manufacturing a motor from It, this material must go through about 200 different before the motor is completed and ready for shipment.