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One of the largest keys to the growth of the company was Norton's 1900 expansion into the machine tools industry. Through partnership with Charles H. Norton, the company founded the Norton Grinding Company division. The company specialized in the production of stationary grinding machines, an alternative to expensive workmen, which were capable ...
Charles Hotchkiss Norton (November 23, 1851, Plainville, Connecticut – October 27, 1942, Plainville, Connecticut) was an American mechanical engineer and designer of machine tools. [ 1 ] After working for the Seth Thomas Clock company in Thomaston , in 1886 Norton became Assistant Engineer with the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company at ...
Jeppson then went on to become the Chief Engineer of the Norton Emery Wheel Company. He maintained this position until his death. [2] At the time of Jeppson’s death in 1920, Norton Company had twelve employees and two ovens. After subsequent expansion, the company operated multiple ovens and a complex consisting of some 50 buildings in Worcester.
Grinding wheels are self-sharpening to a small degree; for optimal use they may be dressed and trued by the use of wheel or grinding dressers. Dressing the wheel refers to removing the current layer of abrasive, so that a fresh and sharp surface is exposed to the work surface. Trueing the wheel makes the grinding surface parallel to the ...
El Cajon, California, US Grinding wheels Ceramicon Designs Ltd. [105], [106] Golden, Colorado, US Ceramic golf club heads Cercom, Inc. [107], [108] (Re-acquired as BAE in 2011.) Vista, California, US Body armor, helicopter seat plating and ceramic heaters Coban Industrial Ltda. (Moved to Vinhedo in 2004, re-acquired as part of S-G in 2010.)
This is a locator map showing Sacramento County in California. David Benbennick made this map. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps .
The village was created as a model planned company town for its workers by the Norton Grinding Company in 1915. [3] Its design is attributed to Grosvenor Atterbury, who designed the South Village (since compromised by the construction of I-190), and the home of Aldus Higgins, then president of the Norton Company. The company established the ...
Freeport is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sacramento County, California, United States, located approximately 7.5 miles (12.1 km) south of downtown Sacramento on California State Route 160. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Freeport lies on the eastern banks of the Sacramento River.