Brelle Fruit Jar Company - Revision history

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{{Infobox
| title = Summary
| header1 = Business Details
| label2 = Primary Town
| data2 = San Jose, CA
| label3 = Primary Business
| data3 = Jar Maker
| label5 = Dates
| data5 = 1913-1917
}}
==Summary==
Vacuum jar makers.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Ferndale || 1913 || ??? ||
|-
| San Jose || 1915, 1916 || Moorpark at Race, next to tracks. ||
|-
|}
==Details==
[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=brelle%20fruit%20jar%20&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CFoQFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fpatents%2FUS1142231.pdf&ei=W6OYULv6PIPxygHpwYGADg&usg=AFQjCNHSHoXSviVlVcChOwyg5CaAMP69rQ&sig2=xqhiyaKBhCOZ81lMxwX8Eg Patent]
Started in Ferndale, Humboldt County, moved to San Jose 1913.

Gone by 1917 according to city directories.

"BRELLE FRUIT":
The Brelle Automatic Sealer Company, whose articles of incorporation were
filed Monday, has established headquarters in the Brelle Building at the
corner of Main Street and Shaw Avenue, where the inventor and others
interested are demonstrating their new Automatic Sealer to many of
Ferndale's prominent ladies and gentlemen who unanimously declare that it
will revolutionize the process of closing fruit jars... (August 16, 1912)
The Brelle Automatic Sealer Company of Ferndale has received an order for one
thousand gross of the glass jar tops and rubber gaskets manufactured under
Mr. Brelle's patent... (January 21, 1913)
The new plant to be erected by the Brelle Automatic Sealer Co of Ferndale
will be located at San Jose, instead of at Monterey, as was at first
intended... (April 18, 1913)
The Brelle Fruit Jar Manufacturing Co of San Jose, CA succeeds the Brelle
Automatic Sealer Co of Ferndale, CA... (December 9, 1913)

[http://www.bottlepickers.com/trademarks.htm Bottlepickers.com says they only lasted til 1916]
1916: Brelle, Frank [appears]
1916: Brelle Fruit Jar, J.R. Lane Manager, Moorpark and Southern Pacific railway.
1917: Brelle, Frank [appears]
1917: [No Brelle fruit jar]
1918: frank brelle listed, no brelle glass jar
1919: brelle glass jar not listed (But frank brelle listed 510 s 2nd)
1920:frank brelle, still at 501 south second
1920: no brelle glass jar
[[Category:Ferndale]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Jar Maker]]

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 | primary_dates = 1913-1917
 }}
 Vacuum jar makers.

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 | San Jose || 1915, 1916 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Moorpark%20at%20Race%2C%20next%20to%20tracks.,San%20Jose Moorpark at Race, next to tracks.] ||
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 |}

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 |}
-==Details==
+==References==
 [[Category:Ferndale]]
 [[Category:San Jose]]
 [[Category:Jar Maker]]

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 | primary_dates = 1913-1917
 }}
-Vacuum jar makers.
+The '''Brelle Fruit Jar Company''' was a jar manufacturer in San Jose around the time of World War I.  The company started in Ferndale, California, but moved to San Jose by 1913.  The company was gone by 1917 according to city directories, with bottle collectors believing the company disappeared in 1916<ref>[http://www.bottlepickers.com/trademarks.htm Bottlepickers.com says they only lasted til 1916].</ref>.
-==Locations==
+Brelle made a patented vacuum jar with glass lid.<ref>U.S. Patent 1142231: [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=brelle%20fruit%20jar%20&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CFoQFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fpatents%2FUS1142231.pdf&ei=W6OYULv6PIPxygHpwYGADg&usg=AFQjCNHSHoXSviVlVcChOwyg5CaAMP69rQ&sig2=xqhiyaKBhCOZ81lMxwX8Eg Fruit Jar], patented June 8, 1915.</ref>
 "BRELLE FRUIT":
 The Brelle Automatic Sealer Company, whose articles of incorporation were
 filed Monday, has established headquarters in the Brelle Building at the
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 Ferndale's prominent ladies and gentlemen who unanimously declare that it
 will revolutionize the process of closing fruit jars... (August 16, 1912)
 The Brelle Automatic Sealer Company of Ferndale has received an order for one
 thousand gross of the glass jar tops and rubber gaskets manufactured under
 Mr. Brelle's patent... (January 21, 1913)
 The new plant to be erected by the Brelle Automatic Sealer Co of Ferndale
 will be located at San Jose, instead of at Monterey, as was at first
 intended... (April 18, 1913)
 The Brelle Fruit Jar Manufacturing Co of San Jose, CA succeeds the Brelle
 Automatic Sealer Co of Ferndale, CA... (December 9, 1913)
 [[Category:Ferndale]]
 [[Category:San Jose]]
 [[Category:Jar Maker]]

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-{{Infobox
+{{Infobox_Industry
-| title = Summary
+| primary_business = Jar Maker
-| header1 = Business Details
+| primary_town = San Jose, CA
-| label2 = Primary Town
+| primary_dates = 1913-1917
 }}
 ==Summary==

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 ! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
 |-
-| Ferndale || 1913 || ??? ||
+| Ferndale || 1913 || ||
 |-
-| San Jose || 1915, 1916 || Moorpark at Race, next to tracks. ||
+| San Jose || 1915, 1916 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Moorpark%20at%20Race%2C%20next%20to%20tracks.,San%20Jose Moorpark at Race, next to tracks.] ||
 |-
 |}