Steven and Struthers
of Kelvinhaugh, Glasgow
Makers of tail shaft liners, valves and whistles for ships.
Established 1867.
c.1876 Manufactured Robert Rankin's tobacco pipe making machine.
1909 Orient Steam Navigation Co: Australian Mail liner 'Osterley': 'In connection with the sanitary arrangements an interesting detail is fitted in this and the other ships in the form of a patent automatic turbine water-closet flusher, winch, because of its efficiency, we illustrate in detail. It is manufactured by Messrs. Steven and Struthers, Kelvinhaugh, Glasgow, and is applicable alike to steamships and works, and especially where seamen, stokers, and workers are generally careless in applying ordinary flushing arrangements. The apparatus consists of a circular casing having ten or twenty outlets, each outlet being connected to a closet or soil-pipe by a pipe 1 1/2 in. in diameter. Inside of the casing is a controlling cylinder revolving on ball bearings, and having a single port, so that every time this port comes opposite an outlet the flush takes place. The water-turbine is placed in the connection to the supply-pipe from the main tank. The system of driving the cylinder is ingenious. The water flowing through the turbine causes it to revolve, but as its speed would be too great for driving the controlling cylinder direct, the connection is by means of its spindle acting through a worm and worm-wheel reducing-gear, which gives the desired speed of rotation. To ensure that each pipe connection has a sufficient duration of flush, the worm-wheel is attached to a ratchet, and this gives an intermittent action to the controlling cylinder and sufficient length of time for flushing each pipe. The apparatus is very simple, and has no stuffing-boxes, an ingenious arrangement carrying away all leakage to one of the soil-pipes. In the event of the supply-tank not being high enough to give head for driving the turbine, provision is made so that a small electric motor can be attached, as shown in Fig. 11.'[1]
1922 Manufactured steam fittings of every description, syrens and organ-pipe whistles, impermeators bronze propellers, and tailshaft liners.
1956 Manganese Bronze and Brass Co took over Steven and Struthers Ltd[2].
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Engineering 1909/06/25
- ↑ The Times, 6 May 1957