…The son of a Virginia coal miner, he grew up as a glass worker. In 1898, he invented an automatic bottle-making machine, for which he received four U.S. patents between 1895 and 1904. This machine, called the Owens Machine, was the first fully automatic machine that could remove molten glass from the furnace, shape it, cool it, and arrange it without human intervention, and could produce thousands of bottles per hour. In Europe, a cartel of bottle manufacturers bought a monopoly on the European patent for the Owens Machine, tending to suppress the trend toward automation throughout the industry. … *Some of the terminology that refers to the "Owens Machine" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…バージニアの炭鉱夫の息子で,ガラス工として育ち,1898年自動製瓶機を発明し,これに付随する4種のアメリカ特許を1895‐1904年に取得した。〈オーエンズ・マシン〉と呼ばれるこの装置は,窯から溶融ガラスを取り出し成形,冷却して並べるまでの工程を人手をかりずに行い,1時間に数千本の瓶を製造できる最初の完全自動機械であった。ヨーロッパでは,製瓶業者カルテルがオーエンズ・マシンのヨーロッパ特許を独占買収し,業界全体の自動化の流れを抑える傾向にあった。… ※「オーエンズ・マシン」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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