The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . ding and un-loading of raw and finished material atall times. For months the company hasbeen running three shifts, giving em-ployment to 400 men and turning out600 tons of reinforcing rods, bolts, nutsand rivets a week. The plant is right upto date, being equipped .with the latesttype of macliinery and open hearth fur-naces. The products of the companyconsist of open hearth steel bars(rounds, squares, and flats), Havemeyerdeformed bars (round and square),square twisted steel bars (for reinforc-ing concrete work), ingots and billets
The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . ding and un-loading of raw and finished material atall times. For months the company hasbeen running three shifts, giving em-ployment to 400 men and turning out600 tons of reinforcing rods, bolts, nutsand rivets a week. The plant is right upto date, being equipped .with the latesttype of macliinery and open hearth fur-naces. The products of the companyconsist of open hearth steel bars(rounds, squares, and flats), Havemeyerdeformed bars (round and square),square twisted steel bars (for reinforc-ing concrete work), ingots and billets,machine bolts, carriage bolts, nuts, lagscrews, cone and button head rivets,hot pressed nuts, etc. The companyalso makes to order anchor rods, polesteps, U-bolts, track bolts, eye bolts andground rods. A galvanizing shop isoperated for hot or cold work andwhere anything can be galvanized froma tack to a 12-inch pipe. The accompanying photographic viewsgive a fair idea of the magnitude of theplant. One picture shows the rolling THE ARCHITECT AXD EXGIXEER 119. AXOTHER IlEiV OF FACTOKY. SHOltlSO nOHKS AM uAlJ A\l/JSOPLAXT, SOUrUERS CALlFOIiSIA IRO\ &? STEEL rOMIASY, LOS ASCELES mill and the superior transportation fa-cilities; another picture shows the boltand nut works and galvanizing plant, anda third photograph is an interior view ofthe bolt works. The Havemeyer bar, which is feat-ured by this company, has been de-signed to meet the reeiuirenicnts ofbond, and at the same time the im-portant economical requirement that inthe deformation no strength or metalis wasted. The deformations of the Mavemeyerbar are designed so that a constantcross-sectional area is maintained. Thesquare bar has a series of projectionsand depressions in conjunction with the plain square section of the bar, theprojections on the sides equaling thedepressions on the corners. The roundbar has projections staggered on alter-nate faces, giving the same result, andno metal is wasted to secure thestronge
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