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<strong>MESTA</strong> <strong>MACHINE</strong> <strong>COMPANY</strong> • PITTSBURGH, PA<br />
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50th ANNIVERSARY<br />
1898- 1948<br />
P L A N T a n d<br />
PRODUCT<br />
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M E S T A M A C H I N E<br />
APR 2 Q 1?-'1_<br />
C O M P A N Y<br />
CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTC<br />
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General Offkei and Work* of the Meita Machine Company, West Homestead. Pa.. (Pittsburgh District)
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Ge<strong>org</strong>e Mcsia, while President ol The<br />
Lcethhuijt Fnuiklry jnd Machine Gunpjuv.<br />
planned its consolidation with<br />
the Rohinson-Rca Manufacturing Company,<br />
to form the Mesta Machine Company<br />
in IS98. He served as President<br />
from thai tunc until his death in 1925.
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Ptcsidcni Lorcnl Ivcr-cn started work<br />
with the Mi-u Machine Company as<br />
a draftsman in 1902. In 1925 he was<br />
elected to the Board of Directors and<br />
made Vice President and General Manager.<br />
In 1930 he was made President,<br />
wln.li office he has held since that time.<br />
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General Offices of fhe Mesta Machine Company<br />
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November 21, 1948 marks the fiftieth anniversary<br />
of the founding of ihe Mesta Machine<br />
Company. However, ihe name <strong>MESTA</strong> was<br />
already well known throughout the sieel industry in 1898; in fact the<br />
chain of events which resulted in the incorporation had its beginning<br />
eleven years earlier.<br />
In 1885 Ge<strong>org</strong>e Mesta graduated from the Western University of<br />
Pennsylvania, now the University of Pittsburgh. For a time he taught<br />
mechanical drawing but saw a broader opportunity for his inventive<br />
talents in industry and in 1887 accepted a position as director of the<br />
engineering department of the Leechburg Foundry and Machine<br />
Company, located at West Leechburg, Pa.<br />
It was not long before Ge<strong>org</strong>e Mesta demonstrated his inventive<br />
ability, and in 1892 he was awarded a patent on a machine for removing<br />
scale from steel. This product is still known as the Mesta Patented<br />
Pickling Machine and is universally used throughout the steel industry-<br />
Financial assistance from his family and friends enabled him to<br />
purchase a controlling interest In the Leechburg company, and under
his aggressive leadership as President the small concern soon outgrew<br />
its limited facilities. The chief Competitor in the manufacture of heavy<br />
steel mill machinery at that time was the Robinson-Rea Manufacturing<br />
Company of Pittsburgh. Ge<strong>org</strong>e Mesta foresaw the favorable future<br />
possibilities that would follow the consolidation of these two companies<br />
and worked diligently to accomplish this end.<br />
In 1898 the merger was completed; the Mesta Machine Company<br />
was born and Ge<strong>org</strong>e Mesta was elected President. A large tract of<br />
land was purchased in the Borough of West Homestead, in the center<br />
of ihe Piitshurgh Area's fast growing steel industry. Complete and<br />
integrated manufacturing facilities, consisting of plant and office<br />
buildings, were erected on the new site. The location of the plant gives<br />
it unsurpassed shipping facilities. It has direct connection with three<br />
of the nation's largest railroad trunk lines.<br />
The new company was favored with an ever increasing volume of<br />
business and its growth has paralleled that of the great American<br />
industries which it serves. Mesta has made many important contribulions<br />
in the field of design and invention, and has become famous in<br />
this country and abroad as the leading manufacturer of steel plant<br />
equipment, rolls, and heavy duty machinery. A list of products manu-
factured is included in this book, together with photographs illustrating<br />
many of the unusual units that have been manufactured.<br />
A large and capable engineering department is maintained where<br />
the machinery built by the company is designed. Plans for complete<br />
plant projects are also developed. These include not only designs for<br />
mechanical equipment, but also for buildings, foundations, electrical<br />
distribution systems, and all engineering required for the creation<br />
of a modern industrial plant.<br />
A staff of practical and experienced construction supervisors is<br />
constantly employed in the field to see that the detailed plans of the<br />
engineering department are efficiently executed. They direct the work<br />
of building erection and equipment installation, from breaking ground<br />
to completion.<br />
President Lorenz Iversen exercises direct supervision over all<br />
operations of the company. In the years since he started with Mesta<br />
as a young man in the drafting room. Lorenz Iversen has gained<br />
world-wide recognition as an outstanding engineer and designer of<br />
many of the important machines used in industry today. Under his<br />
capable leadership as President since 1930. the company has continued<br />
to maintain and strengthen its pre-eminent position.
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A section of the Mesta Engineering Department whet*<br />
equipment to fit individual requirements is designed.
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Expert croftsmen have every facility for malting patterns of<br />
any size Of intricate shape in Mesta's modern Pattern Shops.<br />
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Pottern for stationary crossheod casting of a<br />
Mesta 18,000 Ton Hydraulic F<strong>org</strong>ing Press.
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Mesta workmen tap a heol o* quality alloy<br />
Heel in the Electric furnace Department.
Working a heat of high quality steel<br />
Mesta Open Hearth Department.
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Four ladles are teamed to pour the 600,000 pounds of steel<br />
required for making a 12,000 Ton F<strong>org</strong>ing Press cap.
F<strong>org</strong>ing large ingot on a<br />
Mesta 6,000 Ton Hydraulic<br />
Press.<br />
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Machining a f<strong>org</strong>ed < T '<br />
steel rotor shaft for a ,,_>. ,<br />
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Turning 53" x 90" sleeve<br />
On a twenty foot vertical<br />
boring mill for Cold Mill<br />
Backing-Up Roll.
Hydrostatic testing of four large, one piece, f<strong>org</strong>ed<br />
steel pressure vessels, manufactured in the Mesta Shops.
Barbette carriage base ring for 16" coast defense gun, being<br />
machined on a Mesta Forty Foot Vertical Eloring Mill.
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Mochining cost steel cap for 12,000 Ton Hydraulic<br />
Press on a Mesta Seventeen Foot Heavy Duty Planer.
Simultaneously machining pairs of large<br />
housings for Mesta Continuous Strip Mill.<br />
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Cast steel slob squeezer frame being<br />
machined on Mesta Draw-Cut Shapers.<br />
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Mesta I 6 Fool Heavy<br />
Duty Gear Hobber in<br />
ihe Gear Cutting Deportment.
One of Ihe Erection<br />
Floor Sections where<br />
Mesta products are<br />
assembled prior to<br />
shipment.<br />
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Rolling Mills<br />
Bar, Bill*', Blooming, Continuous Merchant, Non-Ferrous,<br />
Piercing, Pipe, Plate, Rail. Rod. Sheet. Shovel, Skelp,<br />
Slabbing, Slabbing-Blooming, Fov'-High Ho' Strip,<br />
Four-High Cold Strip. Structural, Tin Plote, Tire, Tube,<br />
Universal. Wheel<br />
Rolls and Mill Pinions<br />
Chilled ond Sand Iron Rolls<br />
Mesto Grain Rolls<br />
Nickel Chill Poll-.<br />
Nickel Grain Rolls<br />
Mesto Hardened Chill RolU<br />
Mesto Hardened Groin<br />
Rolls<br />
Mes'a Duplex Rolls<br />
Sleel and Alloy Steel Rolls<br />
"Mei'o Special" Alloy<br />
Steel RolU<br />
Chrome-Molybdenum<br />
Steel Rolls<br />
Mesto High Alloy Sleel<br />
Rolls<br />
Heo'Treo'edSpxiol Alloy<br />
Steel Bocking-Up Rolls<br />
F<strong>org</strong>ed Hardened Steel<br />
RolU<br />
Cost or Cut Tooth Mill<br />
Pinioni<br />
Machine Molded Mill<br />
Pinions<br />
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Rolling Mill Equipment<br />
Shear*: Mei'o Patented 'lying. Bar, Billel. Bloom,<br />
Crop, Hydraulic, lever, Plo'e, Slab, Squaring,<br />
Steam Hydraulic<br />
Furnm-e Charging<br />
Equipment<br />
Manipulators<br />
Mill Tables<br />
Flembte Couplings<br />
Sheor Gauges<br />
Slab Scales<br />
Cooling Beds<br />
Tranifers<br />
Conveyors<br />
Pusher*<br />
Buggies ond Cars<br />
Hot and Cold Saw<br />
Pock Annealing Be<br />
IFisk Polenti|<br />
Annealing Boies<br />
Pileri<br />
Mesto Polen'ed Feed Reels<br />
Tension Reels<br />
Belt Wrapper!<br />
Mes'a Po'ented Sheet<br />
Chargert<br />
Elec'rolylic Cleonini lines<br />
Continuous Brightening<br />
Lines<br />
Me-to Patented Pickling<br />
Machines<br />
Continuous Pickling lines<br />
Processor i<br />
Flash Bull Welders tor<br />
Strip S'eel<br />
Scorn Welders<br />
DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS
Rolling Mill Equipment — Cont.<br />
Geor Drives<br />
Cut and Machine Molded<br />
Iron and Sleel Gears<br />
Coiler*<br />
Coil Boxes<br />
Heavy Duty Planer*:<br />
Tobla-Type, Post-Type<br />
Heovy Duty Draw-Cut<br />
Shapers<br />
Heovy Duty Boring Mills<br />
Gear Ploning Machines<br />
Combination Shoping,<br />
Boring and Milling<br />
Machines<br />
Tri<strong>mm</strong>eri ond Slitter*<br />
Stitching Machine*<br />
Stroightening Machines<br />
Levellers<br />
Scrap BaMer*<br />
Special Machine Tools<br />
Pi'-Type, Double Breast<br />
Heovy Duty Boring and<br />
Turning Laities<br />
Trepanning Lolhes<br />
Ingol Slicers<br />
Roll Grinder*<br />
Roll Lathe*<br />
Gear Hobbing Machine*<br />
OF COMPLETE STEEL MILLS<br />
Presses and Equipment<br />
Hydroulic ond Steam Hydroulic F<strong>org</strong>ing, Bending ond<br />
Forming Presses Large Po«-«r Presies Intemifier*<br />
Accumulolors<br />
F<strong>org</strong>ings<br />
(Open Kearlh ond Electric Furnace Alloy ond Corbon<br />
Steel) Large Shot'*, Ship Shorn, Billet*. Bloom*. Picon<br />
Rod*, Connecting Rod*, locomotive Axle*, Reaction<br />
Tower*, Air Bottle*, Boiler Drum*, Crank*haft*, Hollow<br />
and General F<strong>org</strong>ing*, Gear Rimi, Roll* and Mill Pinion*<br />
Gas and Steam Engines for Blast Furnaces,<br />
Rolling Mills and Power Plants<br />
Una-Flow Engines<br />
(Stumpl Potent*)<br />
Piston ond Corlis* Valve<br />
Engine*<br />
Reversing Engines<br />
Blowing Engines<br />
Barometric Condenser*<br />
Air Heads<br />
Air Compreisor*<br />
Vacuum Pump*<br />
Mes'o Au'omoiic Plo'e<br />
Volve* llverien Polenlil
Mesto 40" Two-High Reversing Blooming Mill, equipped with<br />
universal spindles and modern high speed manipulator.
Mesta 160" Four-High Reversing<br />
Plate Mill, with individual motor<br />
driving each work roll.<br />
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Mesto 29" Structural Mill<br />
with traveling tilting tables.<br />
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Hot Strip Mill.
Mesta 42" Four-Hi<br />
Five-Stand Tandem<br />
High Speed Cold Mill,<br />
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Mesta 56" Four-High<br />
Cold Mill lor temper<br />
passing of sheet gauges.
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Billet Mill.
Mesto 32" Bar Mill<br />
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leader, and finishing<br />
stands, with transfer and<br />
manipulators.<br />
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Mesta 18"—14"Merchont<br />
Mill with pack annealing<br />
cooling bed ond equipment.
The world's first 80" Four-High, Five-Stond Tandem<br />
Mill for the production of wide aluminum strip sheets.
Mesta 195" Backed-Up Armor Plate Leveller.
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F<strong>org</strong>ing and Bending<br />
Press for armor plate.
Machining double breast planer rails on a<br />
Mesta Seventeen Foot Heovy Duty Planer.
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Mesto Patented Combination Flying Shear<br />
and Leveller with Classifier and Piler,<br />
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Mesta Patented Pickling Machine
Mesla-Thomson Flash<br />
Welder located at<br />
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Mesta High-'.;<br />
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Electrolytic Cleaning Lines.<br />
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Rough-turning a large f<strong>org</strong>ed steel shaft on a<br />
Mesla I 10" Heavy Duty Lathe.<br />
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Finish-grinding Ihe body of a large backmg-up roll on a Mesto<br />
60" Heavy Duty Traveling Wheel Type Roll G'.'<br />
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Gear rims used in marine propulsion<br />
drives, f<strong>org</strong>ed in one piece by Mesto.
Mesta produced in a special division great quantities of<br />
heavy guns including the largest regularly wed by<br />
United States Aim»6
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155 MM "long Tom'' Gun, one of<br />
Mesto's contributions to World War It<br />
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36-inch Mortar "little David," powerful<br />
weapon designed ond manufactured<br />
by Mesto for the United States
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Group of three 32" Mesto Potented Pickling<br />
Machines for pickling drop f<strong>org</strong>ings.<br />
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18,000 Ton Hydraulic F<strong>org</strong>ing<br />
Press crosshead, loaded for shipment.
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