Employee removing plate glass from conveyor belt

ca. 1940

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Employee removing plate glass from conveyor belt
  • Title
  • Employee removing plate glass from conveyor belt
  • Creator
  • PPG Industries
  • Date
  • ca. 1940
  • Identifier
  • 20170227-hpichswp-0046
  • Description
  • Employee removing plate glass from conveyor belt. Known as the "camel back," this conveyor belt transports large sheets of plate glass that have been cut down to smaller sizes after emerging from the lehr. The employee is removing the glass from the camel back with the assistance of large suction cups controlled by an overhead conveyor.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • PPG Industries.
    Glass manufacture.
    Glassworkers.
  • Source
  • PPG Industries Records, 1888-1995, MSS 667, Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • PPG Industries Records
  • Rights Information
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