Tremont Nail Manufacturing
Tremont Nail Manufacturing
Old fashioned square nails, and modern nail manufacturing with the help of Wheelabrator blast equipment, Tremont, Mass, per F. Carter Dreves. "Fade in on Wheelaberator Frye logo; dissolve to Tremont Nail Co., Wareham MA logo over shield: established 1809. Camera pulls back to show the sign is on the driver's door of a red delivery truck, with another sign on its side: The Company Store: Visit A Step in the Past. (NOTE: Tremont Nail has been making square cut nails since Revolutionary War days, and still makes them with the original equipment). Camera follows the truck as it drives to the manufacturing building with a sign on top, reads, HARDENED STEEL NAILS. A second take (shorter) from ECU sign on truck to the full exterior plant; camera zooms in to factory entrance. Cut to display of cut (square) nails with caption: HISTORY OF CUT NAILS IN AMERICA. Pull back to see display is held by two men, and pan the factory building. Cut to foliage, pull back to cupola and then to entire building with waterfront and smaller buildings, Early American architecture. Cut to fancy antique sign, TREMONT OLD FASHIONED NAILS and plaque below, THSI PROPERTY HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORICAL PLACES; camera pans to door and shows interior of the factory on the lower level, with several nail-making machines in operation, tended by one operator. Cut to CU operator changing strips of metal which are being formed into nails; removes metal stub and replaces it with new strip; puts the strip into the machine's mouth which turns each strip over and over every time, it cuts off a tapered nail, to eliminate waste metal. Camera pans the four machines showing loading, cutting finished nails falling into toe boxes, reloading in a continuous sequence. Cut to red hot nails in annealing oven; the hot nails spill out into water tray below. Two other views of a different operator tending machines; note the pulleys and flywheels, as well as the antiquated--but still operational--machine design. In modern times there is a limited market for square-cut nails, but there is a market, and Tremont still makes them. Cut to different operator feeding larger machines with larger flat stock; tilt to finished nails falling into tote box, and move to CU's of the machine action. Cut to montage of overhead pulleys and belts that furnish power to drive the entire machine room; pan lerger machines as operator loads wider strips of metal for fabrication. Another montage of belts, pulleys and flywheels. Cut to operators face as he tends the machines. Cut to wide metal flip-flopping as it is cut; CU finished nails. View into mouth of machine as metal is being fed into it. CU of metal cutting. Pull back to wide view of wooden pickling plants, covered with chemical rust. Tilt to signs above tanks: ACID, WATER, and LIME. Reverse take, from signs to tanks. END OF NAIL MANUFACTURING SEQUENCE. THE FOLLOWING SEQUENCE IS NOT RELATED. Cut to exterior metal building, showing Wheelaberator dust collector and duct work. Pan to building front, with Tremont Nail Company store truck in front. Cut to interior plant, with forklift truck lifting completed 4'x4' panels from the Wheelaberator delivery stack as workman clears the next stack for pickup. Camera pans the machine and control panel. Cut to lift loading two stacks of panels into the Wheelaberator. Operator starts the machine. Cut to end view as vacuum cups pick up a panel to feed it into a machine. Pan to delivery end, as completed panels are stacked. Last shot shows pickup of panel for entrance to Wheelaberator. "