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Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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uSmelting and Refining Company re-turns to Western Electric a total of48,000,000 pounds of reborn metal.Nassaus 1941 production, augmentedby deliveries to outside customers,came to nearly twice that amount. Nassau, too, is responsible for thedisposition of much of the Bell Sys-tems scrap iron, paper, rubber, andother by-products of telephone opera-tion. The company employs morethan 400 people, including a staff ofmetallurgical engineers whose testscontrol a quality output. Nassau is not Western Electricsonly metals reclamation plant. In itsown works the company maintainsfurnaces for the reclamation of ma-chine scrap—the punch press skele-tons, the chips from milling opera-tions, and the other odds and ends ofmetal that are the inevitable by-prod-ucts of metals fabrication. Theresonly a trickle of scrap from each ma-chine, but multiply that trickle bythe thousands of W. E. metal workingoperations and you get a swellingstream of essential metals. 542 Doing a Bigger Job—with Less 167
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Reconditioning Drop Wire Wire removed from service is returned to W. E. distributing houses where, as in this picture, defective sections are cut out and serviceable lengths are spliced together for re-use ■/i But miscellaneous metals, no matterhow huge the volume, are relativelyworthless until they are sorted accord-ing to grade and kind. Western Elec-tric segregates its scrap at the source—at the machine. Carefully markedbins are available for each grade andtype of metal. In the metals manu-facturing plant this scrap metal isre-melted, refined, re-cast, rolled andshaped into strips of metal ready forfabrication once again. No reasonable quantity is too smallto reclaim. Heres an example. Theacid baths used to remove the oxidecoating from newly-made copper rodremoves, too, an infinitesimal amountof copper from the surface of the wire.After several runs, however, the bathgrows rich in copper, copper whichWestern reclaims by electrolytic proc- esses. Copper reclaimed in this fash-io

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