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Title: Interview with Harold W. Hocker, 1975 June 24-25 [audio]
Date(s): 1975-06-24, 1975-06-25
Contributor(s): Hocker, Harold W. (interviewee), Edmonson, James (interviewer)
Description: Hocker describes the creation of the H.W. Hocker Manufacturing Company, including how the company handled the Great Depression, the development of brush manufacturing and the trajectory of the company, and other products that they produced, including bottle caps and aluminum cans. He also touches on the equipment used, ordering materials for the process, and learning how to make brushes. He discusses the fear of spreading anthrax in the import of bristles, waste in the brush process, and...
Show moreHocker describes the creation of the H.W. Hocker Manufacturing Company, including how the company handled the Great Depression, the development of brush manufacturing and the trajectory of the company, and other products that they produced, including bottle caps and aluminum cans. He also touches on the equipment used, ordering materials for the process, and learning how to make brushes. He discusses the fear of spreading anthrax in the import of bristles, waste in the brush process, and attempting to use synthetic materials. He also describes the machines used as well as other tools of the trade. Hocker talks about publishing trade catalogs and the standardization of brush-making. Finally, he describes the conception of the idea and the typical brush market.
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Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_91713_hocker
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Nylon bristles
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This clothes brush with tough, long wearing nylon bristles is guaranteed by its manufacture, Stanley Home Products Company of Westfield, Massachusetts to last 25 years. The brush's construction makes the unusual guarantee possible. The nylon bristles will not split, fray or rot. They are twisted into on rusting wire which in turn is permanently set in an exceptionally durable plastic handle. Laboratory and use test have shown the brush to be virtually indestructible. The DuPont nylon bristles...
Show moreThis clothes brush with tough, long wearing nylon bristles is guaranteed by its manufacture, Stanley Home Products Company of Westfield, Massachusetts to last 25 years. The brush's construction makes the unusual guarantee possible. The nylon bristles will not split, fray or rot. They are twisted into on rusting wire which in turn is permanently set in an exceptionally durable plastic handle. Laboratory and use test have shown the brush to be virtually indestructible. The DuPont nylon bristles can be washed with soap and water and are not susceptible to attack by insects or fungi.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1380
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Nylon bristles
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The new nylon shoe brush with black bristles and black and white mixed nylon offer longer and more economical service. The brushes are manufactured by Empire Brush Works, Inc. of Port Chester, New York.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1379
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Nylon medical equipment
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This all nylon surgical hand brush is made with long lasting Tynex nylon bristles and has a back molded of touch heat resistant Zytel nylon resin. Both back and bristles remain in excellent condition after repeated sterilization in the steam autoclave.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1356_1
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Surgical brushes
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Filling a need of long standing the hospital supply field, this all nylon surgical hand brushes utilizes the properties of DuPont Nylon in two of its familiar forms-long lasting nylon bristles firmly anchored in a back of tough, sterilized nylon plastic.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1382
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs