Boston Belting Co
of 256 - 260 Devonshire Street, Boston
1828 Company established.
1889 "The Boston Belting Company, established in 1828, is the oldest company and has the largest works in the world devoted to the manufacture of rubber goods for manufacturing and mechanical purposes. It has a paid-up capital of $700,000,00. The factory buildings covering two acres of ground with upwards of half a million feet of floor surface, are supplied with powerful engines and a boiler capacity of 1000 hP. The company employ 400 men, and consume daily ten tons of raw material.
Their great capacity is the patent stretched, smooth-surface belting, which stands unrivalled throughout the word as a transmitter of power. Belts of any length and thickness up to six feet wide can be successfully made. The company annually turn out 4,000.000ft of rubber hose for steam fire-engines, steam rock-drills, brewers, oil water, and garden purposes; also large quantities of cotton and linen home with or without rubber lining. Other specialties manufactured are all kinds of packing, deckle straps for paper-maker's use; blankets for book, newspaper, lithograph, calico, satinet, and other printing; valves for steam-engines and pumps gaskets and rings for steam, air and water joints; springs washers, tubing and rubber-covered rollers for cotton, woolen and paper mills, print and dye works; leather-splitting, unhairing, and tobacco-squeezing machines, and every variety of mechanical rubber goods."[1]
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- ↑ The Metropolis of New England (1889) p 121.