Jean Bêché

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Bêché air spring hammer, 1908

Jean Bêché Jr. (* 1855 in Hückeswagen ; † 1917 there ) was a German mechanical engineer, inventor and manufacturer.

Life

Jean Bêché Jr. was the son of the machine manufacturer Jean Bêché sen. in Hückeswagen. He studied mechanical engineering at the Royal Polytechnic School in Aachen . In 1881 he became a member of the Association of Machine Technicians, later the Corps Marko-Guestphalia Aachen . In the same year he joined the company of his father and uncle Peter Grohs, the machine factory Bêché & Grohs , which had specialized in the manufacture of smaller machines, machines for the textile industry and regulators for water wheels . In 1890 he became a partner. With his inventions, Bêché Jr. succeeded in decisively influencing the development of the factory. In 1882, he developed a patent for an improved control system for the turbines that were included in the production program under an American license in 1877. Further inventions were air hammers (DRP No. 149422), file hammers, file planing machines and explosive ring rolling machines, but also radial turbine controls (DRP No. 103096).

Remnants of a wide hammer in the Freudenthaler Sensenhammer industrial museum

As a manufacturer he succeeded in developing the company into the most important company in the iron industry in Hückeswagen. In 1888 he built a foundry and in the following years added the machines he developed to the production program. Especially with the air hammers known as Bêché hammers, the company took a leading position on the world market. A representation and description of the Bêché hammers can be found in the Lexicon of All Technology and its auxiliary sciences from 1908.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Rosenbach, H. Ortwig , C. Vogel: History of the Corps Marko-Guestphalia at RWTH Aachen University 1871 to 2001 , Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-00-011065-8 , p. 270.
  2. ^ Innovation in the regulation of turbines , patent specification No. 20013, Imperial Patent Office, March 19, 1882, inventor: Jean Bêché jr.
  3. ↑ Otto Lueger: Lexicon of the entire technology and its auxiliary sciences , Volume 6, 1908, pp. 4–5 ( Permalink ).
personal data
SURNAME Bêché, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bêché, Jean Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer, inventor and manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Hückeswagen
DATE OF DEATH 1917
Place of death Hückeswagen