Owens - Michael Joseph Owens

Japanese: オーエンズ - おーえんず(英語表記)Michael Joseph Owens
Owens - Michael Joseph Owens

American bottle-making engineer. The son of a coal miner, he grew up as a glass worker and invented a fully automatic bottle-making machine, which he patented in 1895 and 1904. He mechanized the winding process that distributes molten glass to the machine, making it possible to produce 2,500 bottles per hour, compared with 200 bottles per hour with a semi-automatic machine. In 1903, he organized the Owens Bottle-Making Machine Company, serving as its vice president from 1915 to 1923, and in 1916 he organized the Libby-Owens Plate Glass Company (which was absorbed by the British company Pilkington in 1986, and was further acquired in 2006 and became a subsidiary of Nippon Sheet Glass), serving as its vice president until 1923.

[Toshio Yamazaki]

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Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

アメリカの製瓶技術者。炭坑夫の子でガラス工として育ち、完全自動式の製瓶機を発明し、1895年と1904年に特許を得た。半自動式では毎時200本だったのを、彼は溶融ガラスを機械に配給する巻取り工程を機械化し、毎時2500本の瓶の製造を可能にした。1903年オーエンズ製瓶機会社を組織し、1915~1923年同社副社長を務め、また1916年にリッビー・オーエンズ板ガラス会社(1986年に英国のピルキントン社に吸収され、さらに同社は2006年に買収されて日本板硝子の子会社となった)を組織して1923年まで副社長の地位にあった。

[山崎俊雄]

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