Masonry Magazine March 1962 Page. 12

Masonry Magazine March 1962 Page. 12

Masonry Magazine March 1962 Page. 12


New bulk system developed by Instant Crete Corp. for delivering, handling, and storing building industry's pre-blended, just-add-water mix is being employed for the first time in New York City at Pan Am Building, a 59-story, 2,400,000-square-foot structure rising north of Grand Central Terminal. Steel storage silo receives mortar blend from bulk truck via screw conveyor.


MORTAR GOES

MODERN

OUT EAST




Bulk Trucks Employ Conveyor to Load First All-Inclusive Mortar Blend Into Enclosed Steel Storage Silos; System Being Used for Two Buildings Makes Quality-Controlled Product Competitive With Mixes Prepared on Job; Process Introduces Cost Controls.




A major breakthrough in one of the building industry's key-on-the-job problem areas has been scored through development of a unique process for delivering, handling, and storing a basic construction material-the mixture of cement, sand, lime, and additives which water turns to mortar.




The innovation, developed by the Instant Crete Corporation, Linden, N. J., introduces the efficiencies and cost savings of bulk operation into masonry and eliminates such problems as hand shoveling of ingredients, manifold deliveries of numerous separate materials to building sites, handling and storage of individual bags and containers, down-time resulting from the necessity to thaw frozen sand piles before work can begin, and the difficult task of protecting materials from the elements.




Utilizing specially designed bulk trucks which employ a screw conveyor to load a pre-blended, all-ingredients-included dry cement mix into steel on-site storage silos, the system is now receiving its initial application at two structures rising in northern New Jersey: an apartment house in Elizabeth and a new factory building being erected by the Lion Match Company in Carteret. The system is being used for the exterior masonry of both structures.




Just introduced, the process in addition already appears in the architect's specifications for the exterior masonry of the Macy's department store being erected from plans by Welton Becket & Associates at the Walt Whitman Shopping Center, Huntington, L. I., and for the interior ceramic tile work of the South Side Hospital addition designed by Eggers & Higgins for Bay Shore, L. I.




The Instant Crete Corporation developed and is using the bulk system for its Instant Crete Mortar mix, introduced nine months ago as the only just-add-water cement blend ever marketed. Brought out in bags, the product, through a patented manufacturing process known as Cyclo-Blending, offered the building industry its first quality-controlled mortar.




In packaged form, Instant Crete has been specified for fourteen buildings. (Continued on page 16)




To fill mortar-mixer with cement blend to which only water is added for ready-to-use mortar, workman opens hatch on 18-foot completely enclosed silo by lever action. Silo at Pan Am Building has capacity of 25 tons.




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