Interior View showing glue crushers and mixers
SC 710605
Description Interior View showing glue crushers and mixers
Date 8/7/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 710605
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Glue & Gelatine Manufacturer, J & G Cox Ltd, Gorgie Mills (Gorgie Glue Works), Gorgie Road, Edinburgh This works was probably founded in about 1900 by J & G Cox Ltd, and made crystal gelatine and animal glue from hides. These were treated with lime and then with hydrochloric acid, then boiled to extract soluble proteins. The protein solution was concentrated in a vacuum in an evaporator. This shows a glue mixer, mounted under a crusher which broke up the glue from the cooling band, which turned the hot syrup from the evaporators into a hard sheet of glue. Inside this D-section container is a horizontally mounted rotor with spiral blades to stir up the fragments of glue. The works was also known as Gorgie Mills. Latterly it was owned by Bryant & May, match manufacturers, who used the glue as a component of their match heads. Owing to declining demand for matches, the company pulled out of Scotland in 1969. This factory was demolished soon afterwards. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/42/17
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