The Modern Factory: Safety, Sanitation and Welfare

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J. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 1914 - 574 páginas
 

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Arkwrights Spinning Machine
20
Mule Spinning about 1830
23
A Cotton Factory Cardingroom in 1830
26
A Cotton Factory Weavingroom in 1830
28
An Early American Factory in 1828
40
An English Cotton Factoryabout 1830
41
A Home Work ShopPicking Nuts for the Trade
43
A Home Work ShopWrapping Candy in a New York Tenement
45
A Rag Shop
47
A Cellar Bakery
49
Conditions in a Cellar Bakery
51
A Cloak and Suit ShopEast Side New York City
52
A Modern Loft Building
55
Entrance to Kodak Park Works
58
The Adler Clothing Factory at Rochester
61
The Hammerbrot Werk
63
A Modern Factory
67
Factory of the United Shoe Machinery Company
68
The Beyer Chemical Company
70
CHAPTER III
72
Finishingroom in a Knitting Mill
77
Obstructed Exits from the Fireescape
81
Fire Escape Balconies without Connecting Ladders
85
Drop Ladder Missing on Shop Building
88
A Dangerous Type of Stairway
94
Automatic Vertical Fire Door
97
Stairway Adjacent to Elevator Wall
99
CONTROL OF FIRES
100
Chemical Fire Extinguisher
103
Sanitary Fire Bucket
104
Sprinkler Heads
106
Graphic Chart Showing the Number of Persons Working above the Sixth Floor
108
NUMBER PAGE 38 Metal Boxes for Clippings and Waste
110
Window to Fireescape Barred
111
A Bisectional Building
113
Stairway Congestion
117
Capacity of Different Types of Fireescapes
119
Standard Double Run Fireescape
121
Tower Plan with Outside Balcony Entrance
123
Standard Single Strainght Run Fireescape
124
Philadelphia Tower Fireescape
125
Emergency Exit and Fire Wall
127
Narrow Aisles between Machines
130
Live Roll Gears Unprotected
135
Unguarded Opening to Elevator
137
Open Caustic Pot without Rail or Guard
139
Unprotected Transmission Belt
142
Unguarded Vats in a Wire Factory
144
Chart of the Five Largest Groups of Accidents
147
German Factory Uniforms
151
Face Mask
152
Safety Eye Glasses
154
Safety Eye Goggles
155
Ladder with Steel Points
157
Dangerous Open Stairway
158
Stairway Equipped with Safety Tread
159
Time Card of a Woman who Worked 117 Hours in One Week
163
Selfacting Safety Catch
167
Methods of Lifting Barrels and Sacks
168
Workers Carrying Crucible of Molten Metal
169
Tongues for Safe Carrying of Crucibles
170
A Safe Method of Lifting Barrels
171
Hatchway Safeguarded with Half Automatic Gate
172
Elevator with Hatch Covers
173
Side Post Freight Platform Enclosed
174
Full Automatic Gate
175
Semiautomatic Gate
176
THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS DUE TO MOTIVE POWER
177
Guard in Front of Fly Wheel
178
Guards Protecting Chain Drive
179
Metal Guard Protecting Reynolds Chain Drive
180
Guards Covering Gear Chains and Worm Drives
181
Guards on Gears of Printing and Collaring Machine
182
Guard on Bleach House Machine
183
Protruding and Countersunk Set Screws
186
Wooden Guards for Belting
188
Driving Belt in Aisles Boxed In
189
Pipe Railing around Rope Drive
190
Belt Shifters
192
Safety Guard on Press
194
Twohand Safety Device
195
Plate Glass Guard on Punch Press
196
Guarded Stamping Machine
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Stamping Press Guard
198
Corner Cutting Machine
199
Calender Rolls with Safety Clutch
200
Collar and Cuff Ironer Guarded
201
Calender Hand Safety Guard
202
Concave Safety Collars for Emery Wheels
203
Crosssection of Emery Wheel
204
Protected Grinding Wheels
205
Safeguard on Grinder
206
Safeguarded Broken Grindstone
207
Splitter Adjusted to Large Saw
208
Circular Saw Guard
209
Splitter Guard for Circular Saw
210
Wire Head Guard
211
Guard on Tumbling Barrel
213
Old Style Square Buzz Planer
216
Double Cutoff Saw Guard
217
Bent Saw Guard
218
Rib Saw Guard
219
Soap Vat with Safety GrillOpened and Closed
223
A Safeguarded Roving Machine
224
Cotton Mill Balling Machine
225
Unguarded Caustic Pots
227
Calender Pulley and Nip Guards
228
NUMBER PAGE 231 Workers in a Factory where Skins from Hares and Rabbits are Scraped
231
CHAPTER V
232
Localized Illumination at the Point of the Needle
246
Localized Lighting of a Buffing Machine in a Shoe Factory
247
Localized General Illumination of Cutters Table in a Shoe Factory
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Localized General Illumination
249
Localized General Illumination
250
Localized General Illumination for Sewing Machine Operators
251
Localized General Illumination of a Machine Shop
252
Local Lighting for Engravers and Jewelry Manufacturing
253
General Illumination in a Composing Room
254
General Illumination for Hand Ironers in a Laundry
255
The Importance of Light in Factories Inadequate Light in American
258
United States Printing Office
262
Drinking Fountains
264
Bubbling Valve Drinking Fountain
265
A Factory Wash Sink
267
Dressing and Wash Room
269
Wash Room
270
Individual Lockers
272
Bathroom
273
Broken Plumbing
274
Broken Fixture
276
A Sanitary Urinal
279
A Well Arranged Sanitary Watercloset
280
IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL STATUS
295
Twoway Cafetaria
306
Oneway Cafetaria
307
Restroom
310
Swimming Pool
312
Bakery in Works
316
Diningroom
318
Dining Hall
319
Dining Hall
320
Reading Room
323
Reading Room
324
Playground and Swimming Pool
325
Tennis Court
328
Shooting Gallery and Bowling Alleys
329
Dance Hall
330
Medical Chest
332
First Aid Equipment
333
Emergency Hospital Room
335
Emergency Hospital Room
337
U S Printing Office Emergency Room
338
Industrial School
341
Houses for Employes
343
Boarding House for Employes
345
CHAPTER VIII
347
Bleaching Furs with Ammonia
349
NUMBER PAGE 183 The Filterbag Washroom in a Sugar Refinery
352
Manufacture of Felt Hats
357
Casting Yellow Brass
360
Casingroom in a Sausage Factory
363
Beatingup Machines in a Hat Factory
368
View of Forge and Hardening Departments Showing Ventilating Plant
370
First Process in Felt Hat Making Excessive Humidity and Heat
372
Factory Equipped with Globe Ventilators
375
Base Fan Set in Top of Window
376
Exhauster in Connection with System of Hoods and Piping for the Removal of Dust from Emery Wheels
378
Exhausting in Room
380
Double Inlet Sirocco Fan
381
Steel Pressure Blower in Foundry
382
Disk Fan in Laundry
383
Sling Psychrometer
385
PatersonPalmquist Apparatus
389
Wallace and Tiernan Pump
391
CHAPTER IX
392
Dust Particles as seen under the Microscope
393
Dust Particles of Silk
394
Dust Particles of Jute
395
Dust Particles of Cotton
396
Dust Particles of Felt
398
Dust Particles of Carpet
400
Dust Particles of Lead
401
Dust Particles of Needle Polishing
402
Interior of Machine Room of Cordage Factory
406
Girl Worker in Preparing Room of Cordage Factory
408
Polishing ShoesThe wellequipped Hood and Exhaust System Fur nishes Practically Ideal Protection
412
off for Supplying Felt for Hats
415
Workers Carrying Skins Treated with Nitrate of Mercury
418
Sandblasting Exterior of Car Worker Wears Respirator
419
Automatic Process of Manufacturing Chloride of Lime
422
Local Exhaust of Dye Dust in a Paper Factory
424
Local Dust Exhaust in a Carding ShopTextile Mill
425
Sandblasting Casting in Open Shed
428
Packer of Bleach or Chloride of LimeWearing Several Thicknesses of White Flannel over his Mouth
432
Automatic Rubber Respirator
435
CHAPTER X
438
Removing Lead from Oven into Metal Pan
446
Types of Wristdrop among Hungarian Potters
448
Stripping the Corroding Beds in a White Lead Factory
451
An Unprotected Worker Stripping the Corroding Beds
452
Unsuccessful Attempts by Workers to Protect Themselves against Poisonous Dust
454
Filling Barrels with Litharge
455
Lead Refining
456
Lead Oxidizing Furnace
458
Lead Working in the Manufacture of Storage Batteries
459
Paris Green FactoryAutomatic Packing Machine
461
Putting Paris Green into the Bolter
463
Filling a Barrel with Paris Green
464
Exposure to Fumes of Cyanide of Potassium
466
The Muzzles and Costumes Worn by Bleach Workers
469
Lead Fumes in a Lead Smelting Shop Properly Carried away
473
A Linotype Room in a Newspaper
477
Removal of Fumes in an Electroplating Shop
481
Removal of Fumes in an Electroplating Shop
482
Selected Bibliography on Subjects covered in the Book
553
Instructions on Fire Drills by the National Fire Underwriters Asso
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