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Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925) and his wife Florence Scott Libbey (1863-1938), ca. 1901. Edward Drummond Libbey (April 17, 1854 – November 13, 1925) is regarded as the father of the glass industry in Toledo, Ohio, where he opened the Libbey Glass Company (later Libbey, Inc.) in 1888.
Libbey, Inc., (formerly Libbey Glass Company and New England Glass Company) is a glass production company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1818 in Cambridge, Massachusetts , as the New England Glass Company, before relocating to Ohio in 1888 and renaming to Libbey Glass Co .
Libbey-Owens merged with the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company in 1930 to form Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company. [1] In April 1986, LOF sold its glass business and name to the Pilkington Group, a multinational glass manufacturer headquartered in the United Kingdom. The remaining three business units of the company, Aeroquip, Vickers, and Sterling ...
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co v Ford Motor Co of Canada Ltd, [1970] S.C.R. 833, is a leading Supreme Court of Canada authority for the proposition that, in Canada, where a patent covers an apparatus and a method of using it, the acquisition of the apparatus before the material date entitles the owner to continue to practise the method with that apparatus after the patent is issued.
The glass made using this formula had good enough quality that the company could compete in the high-end of the glassware market. [62] This improvement in the formula for glass was considered one of two great advances in American glassmaking during the 19th century, the other being the invention of pressing. [63]
Artemus Libbey (1823–1894), Maine Supreme Judicial Court justice; Dee Libbey (1919-1988), American composer; Edward Libbey (1854–1925), founder of Libbey Glass Company; Harry Libbey (1843–1913), U.S. Representative from Virginia; J. Aldrich Libbey (1864–1925), American vaudeville performer, actor, singer and songwriter
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Broadly, modern glass container factories are three-part operations: the "batch house", the "hot end", and the "cold end". The batch house handles the raw materials; the hot end handles the manufacture proper—the forehearth, forming machines, and annealing ovens; and the cold end handles the product-inspection and packaging equipment.