C. Schember & Sons
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1852 |
| Seat | formerly Vienna, recently Wiener Neudorf |
| management | Daughter of Avery Weigh-Tronix |
| Branch | General mechanical engineering, trade in machine and precision tools |
| Website | www.Schember.at |
C. Schember & Sons was an Austrian weighing machine - and in the past also a machine manufacturer . The company's headquarters were originally in Vienna and most recently in IZ NÖ Süd in Wiener Neudorf in Lower Austria.
history
With the first locomotive railway , a new era in traffic and business began. In Austria, the Vienna-Lundenburg railway line was built by the kk priv. Kaiser-Ferdinand-Nordbahn .
The founder of the company C. Schember & Sons was Conrad Schember . He had learned locomotive construction and railroad service in the world-famous John Cockerill establishment in Seraing when he decided in 1836 to enter the service of the Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn as a locomotive driver, in which position only the English were used at the time. Conrad Schember was probably one of the first local locomotive drivers in Austria.
After seven years Conrad Schember became chief works manager of all workshops of the kk state railways in Pardubitz , then in Böhmisch-Trübau and Prague , where he proved himself for another seven years to the satisfaction of the authorities. Schember then left the railroad service and associated himself with the weighbridge manufacturer Louis Simon for a year and a half , in order to independently build a machine shop for the production of weighbridges in 1852.
For lack of own capital, Schember was forced to start his business with the most modest means and to use his own activity. The company started with auxiliary staff of three workers in what was then Jägerzeile, today Praterstrasse , in house number 38, which has since been converted. (Figure II.)
After ten years of existence, the entrepreneur, supported by his three sons, succeeded in acquiring his first own and significantly enlarged workshop, Kleine Stadtgutgasse No. 3 (Figure III.)
Conrad Schember participated in exhibitions as early as the 1860s and was awarded the crown by Emperor Franz Joseph I in view of his achievements at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867 by awarding him the golden Cross of Merit .
After another ten years, the company was in the 3rd district of Vienna, Landstrasse , Untere Weißgerberstrasse 8 and 10, in an establishment that met the requirements of the technology at the time and was set up for steam operation. (Figure IV.) After the sons were accepted as public shareholders, the company was named C. Schember & Sons .
Now began an important era for the organization of the company. The significantly expanded workshops and the use of special machines made it possible to produce weighbridges of particular size and load capacity. The company also manufactured smaller precision and hand scales, and in 1875 a mechanical workshop for the production of precision instruments was established in the factory.
In 1883 Conrad Schember left his company, his sons Carl August (1838–1917) , Ludwig (1839–86) and Albert (1845–1911) succeeded him.
By 1880 the company owned 14 patents; until shortly before 1900 their number tripled.
Development of weighbridges
Two inventions of that time caused a sensation in the railway engineering circles of the continent: the locomotive weighbridges with a central resolution and - more importantly - the wagon weighbridges without a track break .
The locomotive scales determined the load on each individual wheel and compensated for weight differences between the loads acting on the individual axles by tightening or releasing the springs , in order to achieve a smooth and smooth gait of the locomotive, which prevented the locomotive from derailing as much as possible, even on sharp bends .
Therefore, separate scales were required for each wheel. The number of these scales depended on the design or type of locomotive, depending on whether they were three-, four- or five-axle. With the Schember locomotive scales, the same height of the individual bridge sections in relation to one another resulted in a simultaneous and even functioning by means of the central triggering, so that the individual stub axles form an almost completely horizontal plane, which ensures the correct distribution of the individual wheel pressures (the springs) decisive being.
The Schember locomotive scales carried out the following deliveries:
- the kk Staatsbahndirektion three pieces, each weighing 100,000 kg, intended for the Linz , Gmünd and Neu Sandec workshops ; the Südbahngesellschaft three pieces, each weighing 100,000 kg, for the workshops in Vienna, Innsbruck and Stuhlweissenburg ; the kk priv. Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn one piece to 100,000 kg weighing capacity for the Floridsdorf workshop ; the kk priv. Austrian Nordwestbahn a piece to 72,000 kg weighing capacity for the Nimburg workshop ; the kk priv. Staats-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft one piece to 100,000 kg weighing capacity for the Vienna workshop; the kk priv. boehm. Bohemian Northern Railway a piece to 72,000 kg weighing capacity for the Böhmisch-Leipa workshop ; the Royal Hungarian State Railways four pieces with a weighing capacity of 100,000 kg each, of which two were allocated to the workshops in Budapest and one each for the workshops in Sátoraljaújhely and Klausenburg , and finally the Odessa Railway one piece to 72,000 kg weighing capacity for the Odessa workshop.
The company recorded particular success with the wagon weighbridge without a track break. This construction differed from the traditional one with an interrupted track in that it saved the expensive siding, which was sometimes impossible to implement because of the difficult terrain. Rather, the same were switched to the main tracks and could be driven on with all types of vehicles, with trucks or express trains, at any speed. The construction of these scales lay between the track. Accordingly, the entire mechanism was completely separate and independent from the track system. The scales met the requirements of the railway police .
Not only in all railways of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, where it was considered the normal type today, this type of scales also spread in all other European countries.
Other Schembersche innovations found sales, such as the running weight system with registration device, automatic scales, precision instruments for laboratories, spinning mills, weaving mills, paper mills, iron works and machine factories, but especially the new gold scales for weighing gold bars and gold coins, which are in the Austro-Hungarian Bank in Vienna and Budapest were introduced.
C. Schember & Söhne was probably the only special factory on the continent that produced scales of all sizes from the smallest precision scales to the heaviest caliber locomotive scales. In recognition of its services and performance, the company was awarded the title of " kuk court supplier ". The King of Serbia also granted the company the right to use the title "Royal Serbian Court Suppliers".
At the request of the royal Hungarian government, the company set up a completely independent sister factory in Budapest in 1878 at Rottenbillergasse 12 and 14, which was equipped with steam engines and special machines like the headquarters in Vienna. Thanks to the relentless efforts of the company and the support on the part of its clients , sales of their products took off so much that both the Viennese and the Budapest houses expanded.
In 1888 the company moved to a 15,000 m² factory building in Atzgersdorf near Vienna . (Figure I.) Three years later, a new building was carried out for the Budapest factory in the 6th district at Hungariastraße 83. The layout and equipment of the two defeats of the company in Vienna's 1st district at 4 Akademiestrasse and in Budapest's 6th district at 15 Andrassystrasse were particularly elegant.
In the years 1888 and 1890, C. Schember & Söhne was represented in its own pavilions at the exhibitions in Vienna organized by the Lower Austrian Trade Association and the kk Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft.
Modern
Despite the turmoil of the First and Second World Wars , the company was able to continue to exist. On August 29, 1952, C. Schember & Sons, weighbridge and machine factories AG was awarded the state award .
The Schember company was later taken over by the Avery Weigh-Tronix Group and operated as a subsidiary. Schember was responsible for the sales and service of his products in Austria, Germany , Switzerland , Slovenia , Hungary , Slovakia and the Czech Republic . Furthermore, due to the certification by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor, the company was authorized to carry out recalibrations for calibration and surveying, as well as for initial manufacturer calibration. In 2011, as part of its structural realignment, the group decided to control the market served by Schember itself or via the Avery Weigh-Tronix subsidiary GSE Scale Systems and to handle customer support on site via local partners. Schember GmbH as a legal person was liquidated.
In 2009, the products were fishing scales , spring balances / hanging scales , industrial scales , parcel scales , personal and baby scales , portable scales , DIY scales , bench scales , shipping scales and counting scales .
Individual evidence
- ^ C. Schember & Sons . In: Presented by the industrialists of Austria under the high protectorate of His K. and K. Highness of the Most Serene Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Hrsg.): Die Groß-Industrie Oesterreichs . Festival ceremony for the glorious fiftieth anniversary of the reign of His Majesty the Emperor Franz Josef I. Volume 3 . Leopold Weiss, Vienna 1898, VI. Instruments, scales and weights, p. 289-291 .
- ^ Table of contents p. (No longer available online.) State award, August 29, 1952, archived from the original on January 4, 2014 ; Retrieved February 13, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ About us. (No longer available online.) Schember GmbH, February 13, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 13, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- J. Mentschl: Schember, Konrad (Conrad). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 74.
- Primo Calvi: Representation of the political district Hietzing surrounding area through a comprehensive description of all villages, localities, churches, schools, castles, institutions and noteworthy objects etc. etc. Self-published, Vienna 1901. pp. 37–38.
- Neue Freie Presse and Neues Wiener Tagesblatt from the 3rd Illustrirtes Wiener Extraablatt from April 3rd and 4th, 1891.
- Wiener Zeitung of August 8, 1903, p. 58 (anniversary number).
- A. Eckstein (Ed.). The citizens of Vienna in words and pictures. (1890).
- 100 years of Schember-Waagen 1852-1952 . (1952).
- R. Granichstaedten-Czerva, J. Mentschl, G. Otruba. Old Austrian entrepreneurs (= Osterr. R. 365/367), 1969.
- F. Opll. Liesing (1982), p. 177.
- Manfred Wehdorn , U. Georgeacopol-Winischofer. Technical and industrial monuments in Austria . Volume 1 (1984).
- The Schember Chronicle . (1984).
Web links
- Schember Waagen website
- Early documents and newspaper articles on C. Schember & Sons in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 36.6 ″ N , 16 ° 18 ′ 54.1 ″ E