Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888Various
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888
Various
Science -- Periodicals
These machines were making about 1,200 stitches
per minute--an average of 4 volts per 100 stitches.
Case No. 2 is a shop in which there are 32 machines, running about
1,200 stitches, each being supplied with an individual motor of 1/8 H.
P. capacity, and the class of goods manufactured being men's summer
clothing, such as white duck vests, flannel coats and vests, etc., the
duck from which these vests are made being about as hard work on a
sewing machine as can be found. In this shop were 24 operators at
work. The maximum volts in this case were 116 and the minimum 40, or
general average of but 78 volts, or about 2½ volts per machine with 4
more operators than in the first case, in which we had an average of
119 volts. This shop has been paying the electric light company $32
per month for more than a year, which is the price the company charge
for current for a 4 H. P. motor which approximates 400 volts, the
company contracts to deliver. This gives us a minimum average use of
but 10 per cent. and a maximum of 29 per cent. with a general average
of 19½ per cent. In other words, the company is saving in this shop
the price of a 1/8 H. P. motor each month, besides making a profit on
the volts actually delivered. On a contract for three years the
electric light company would be money in pocket if they would present
the customer with 30 small motors, charging him $1 per month per motor
for current, rather than let him buy a 2 H. P. motor to operate the
same machines with the necessary shafting at a charge of $18 per month
for current. Taking this average in case No. 2 of 2½ volts per
machine, from a 50 light machine, we could run not less than 900
sewing machines, or about 18 to the arc lamp. At $1 per month per
machine an income of $900 per month would be derived from a 50 light
machine without any lamp expenses, such as carbons, repairs on lamps,
globes, etc. On the average, in case No. 1, of 4 volts per machine, we
could operate but about 562, say 600 machines. Divided up in shops of
30 machines and a 2 H. P. motor to each shop, we would have 20 two H.
P. motors. At a charge of $18 per month each, we would have an earning
capacity of but $360 per month from the same 50 light machine.
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