Radio age research, manufacturing, communications, broadcasting, television (1941)

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ALUEHT PETEH HLGGIEHI TB AWARDS BENJAMIN WILLET Certificates of Individual Production Merit Given 5 Men, Woman Orr OK THE seventeen persons in the nation to receiNe Certificates ot In- (li\idnal Frodnetion Merit from the War Prochietion Board, five men and a woman (the only one) are members of tlic HCA I'amily. In addition, anotht^r fUJAM worker received Honorable Mention. No other company received as many citations. The Certificates were awarded for suggestions that increase the quantity or quality of war equipment, or con- serve critical materials. This system of awards was established to bring die ingenuity and "know-how" of Amer- ican workmen at the point of the tool into further service in war production, and to honor production soldiers for outstanding service. The only woman in the country to be honored with a Certificate is Mrs. Bonnie Lee Smith Lewis, employed at the Indianapolis plant. Her suggestion saved 2,925 man-hours. Another Certificate winner is Ed- ward S. Hoffman, now Private Hoff- man, of the U. S. Army Air Corps. Other winners were Benjamin Willet, Stanlev Crawford, and Joseph F. Eck- ert of the Camden plant. Honorable Mention went to Arthur \\'aggoner of the Indianapolis plant. MRS. BONNIE LEE SMITH LEWIS Mrs. Lewis, 2L a former employee of the RC.\ Manufacturing Co., Inc., plant iu Indianapolis, suggested the use of a motor-dri\en wire brush wheel for re- mo\ing burrs foimd on the niouklcd clamping nut of a .sound-powered tde- plione. Pre\iously, tliis operation was performed with a hand scraper, with considerable danger of spoilage. The company reported that Mrs. Lewis' sug- gestion sa\ed 2,92.5 man-hours. Suggesfi'ons Increased Quantity or Quality of War Equipment STANLEY CHA\\ lOlil) Mr. Crawford, .50. a material inspector iu the RCA Manufacturing Co. plant at Camden, designed a new t\ pe ol caliper for determining the wall tiiickuesses and relationship betwi-en a cored inte- rior and the outside surface of castings. By the use of this caliper, 13 out of 16 castings pre\ iousl\- rejected were sal- \aged, thus saving \aluable .semi-fin- ished material. The caliper also detects shifted cores iu rough castings, pre- \ enting \ aluable skilled man-hours be- ing wasted on dcfectise castings. liENJAMIN WILLET Mr. Willet, 23, an iuslructor iu tlie crvstal laboratory at the HCA Camden plant, designed a new jig utilizing a diamond-charged saw for slitting (|uartz crystals. The jig reduced l)reakage by 75 percent. JOSEPH EHANK ECKEBT, JH. Mr. Eckert, 24, an X-ray operator at tlie }\C.\ plant at Camden, suggested a new method to obtain a maxinmm number of radio rjuartz crystals from tlie ex- tremely limited amount of raw material. His suggestion, higlily teclmicai, re- sulted in sa\ings in saw setup time and X-ray measurement time and permitted each bar to be sampled without cutting iutennediate wedge blanks. It has siiown an increased production of 27 properly oriented cr)stals a da\- from the same amount of quartz used pre- \ iously. EDWARD SPENCER HOFF^L\N Mr. Hoffman, 22, was a superv i.sor in the transformer department of the HC:.^ plant at Camden, his interest in the pro- duction of transformers for Na\al avi- ation being stimulated by his several applications to get into the air force. Without warning, a high-nickel steel used iu the transformer became un- available and there were no assurances that deli\ eries would be resumed. Hoff- man, althougli not an engineer, con- structed a small lot of transformers with silicon steel in place of the nickel steel. The transformer passed all tests. As a consequence, 3,0()() pounds of nickel has been sa\ed and production has flowed smoothly. Meanwhile, Hoiiman tried to enlist again and now he's Pri- \ate Hoffman, U. S. .\ir Corps. ALBERT PETER RUGGIERI Mr. Ruggieri, 23, a spot welder at the RCA Camden plant, suggested the use of a redesigned aluminum bracket in place of a more complicated bracki^t of stainless steel wiUi a high Chromium content in production of radio equip- ment. Mr. Ruggieri's suggestion has sa\ed 1,300 man-hours and has con- served a great aiuounl of scarce cliro- RADIO AGE