Mike Kearns Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 1913 - The first OSHA cage 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Kearns Posted October 30, 2023 Author Share Posted October 30, 2023 (edited) From trade journal "Popular Electricity", October 1912 edition - Thanks to Russ Huber for the help on this. Edited October 30, 2023 by Mike Kearns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Rockwell Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 (edited) General Electric Co. had been playing in this sandbox for a while... The circa 1912 version appears to have been a mock-up (considering its construction) to test such a guard's practicality and characteristics... This resembles the guard posted by Mike & Russ... The first spiral? (That is one looong single piece of wire......... Edited November 16, 2023 by Steve Rockwell 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ Huber Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Westinghouse. 1498394513757498075-01173568 (storage.googleapis.com) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ Huber Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Mitsubishi 1920s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Koh Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 I find it bizzare that even though there was development of the safety cage it wasn't implamented for decades. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Koh Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 On 10/30/2023 at 10:29 AM, Russ Huber said: Mitsubishi 1920s. I'm not well versed with forigen fans. So take these with a grain of salt. Shibaura engeneering works. Circa 1918-20 Ad posters circa 1930. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kovar Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 www.oldtokyo.com/shibaura-engineering-works-shinagawa Well, that explains the logo... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Koh Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 Russes example of Japan is somewhat true. Just from visual correlation it seems that they started with open guard then went to safety cage for a period. The safety guards died out for a period of time from world war two and into the 1950s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kovar Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Koh Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 1 minute ago, Jim Kovar said: Interesting find Kim. I thought they ditched that standard design by then in favor of these with the curved design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Koh Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 Early Japanese fans could be an entire thread on its own so I'll leave you with this. First Hitachi 1916. This model never had a safety guard option as far as I know. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levi Mevis Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 (edited) On 11/8/2023 at 7:51 PM, Alex Koh said: Early Japanese fans could be an entire thread on its own so I'll leave you with this. First Hitachi 1916. This model never had a safety guard option as far as I know. That is an extremely heavy duty looking oscillator mechanism, way more substantial than any of the American fans at the time... 😲 Which just goes to show that the Japanese were just as capable of making High Quality products as we were at that time. 🧐 Its kind of unfortunate that the Japanese did the same thing we did and shipped their manufacturing over to China which resulted in lower quality products from them after the 1980s (like with the US.) Edited November 14, 2023 by Levi Mevis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Koh Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 3 minutes ago, Levi Mevis said: That is an extremely heavy duty looking oscillator mechanism, way more substantial than any of the American fans at the time... 😲 I think the oscilator allows you to adjust the length it goes for. I don't own any of the fans I posted so I don't really know for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levi Mevis Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 (edited) On 11/8/2023 at 7:28 PM, Jim Kovar said: www.oldtokyo.com/shibaura-engineering-works-shinagawa Well, that explains the logo... I think those modern reproduction fans that has the "SE" logo on it that comes from India is a reproduction of this fan company's logo but its missing the "W" in it. Also a little fun fact, Shibaura Engineering Works was what later on became what is now known as Toshiba. Edited November 14, 2023 by Levi Mevis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levi Mevis Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 2 minutes ago, Alex Koh said: I think the oscilator allows you to adjust the length it goes for. I don't own any of the fans I posted so I don't really know for sure. I'm just going by how it looks in the picture, in the pictures it looks very substantial compared to even the Emerson oscillator wheels from that time period that were also adjustable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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