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| successors = [[Food Machinery Corporation]]
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| predecessors = [[Anderson Prune Dipper Company]], [[Barngrover-Hull Company]].
 
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==Summary==
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'''Anderson-Barngrover''' was a San Jose-based equipment manufacturer for the food industry. Anderson-Barngrover was created in 1902 as a merger of the [[Anderson Prune Dipper Company]] and the [[Barngrover-Hull Company]].  The merger settled a long-running patent dispute.  The company started making canning equipment in 1904, and created the first continuous cooker in 1913.  Anderson-Barngrover was merged into the [[John Bean Manufacturing Company]] in 1928, and renamed the [[Food Machinery Corporation]].
Precursor for FMCMaker of early rotary cookers.
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Anderson-Barngrover was best known for large-scale canning equipmentThey created rotary pressure cookers to speed manufacturing of canned foods<ref>Anderson Barngrover Continuous Rotary Pressure Sterilizer: [https://www.asme.org/about-asme/who-we-are/engineering-history/landmarks/74-anderson-barngrover-cont-rotary-pressure Landmarks in ASME History].</ref>.
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==Locations==
 
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[http://content.scu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/svhocdm&CISOPTR=987&DMSCALE=100&DMWIDTH=800&DMHEIGHT=800&DMMODE=viewer&DMFULL=1&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=%20transportation&DMTHUMB=1&REC=8&DMROTATE=0&x=272&y=311 Anderson-Barngrover Manufacturing Co.  History San Jose]
 
[http://content.scu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/svhocdm&CISOPTR=987&DMSCALE=100&DMWIDTH=800&DMHEIGHT=800&DMMODE=viewer&DMFULL=1&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=%20transportation&DMTHUMB=1&REC=8&DMROTATE=0&x=272&y=311 Anderson-Barngrover Manufacturing Co.  History San Jose]
  
==Details==
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ASME International Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark brochure for the [https://www.asme.org/getmedia/ef673461-4d65-49bd-80c4-584271c58661/74-Rotary-Pressure-Sterilizer.aspx FMC Rotary PRessure Sterilizer].
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==References==
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Latest revision as of 16:19, 17 July 2014

Summary
Business

Manufacturer
Main Location

San Jose
Active

1902-1928
Predecessors

Anderson Prune Dipper Company, Barngrover-Hull Company.
Successors

Food Machinery Corporation

Anderson-Barngrover was a San Jose-based equipment manufacturer for the food industry. Anderson-Barngrover was created in 1902 as a merger of the Anderson Prune Dipper Company and the Barngrover-Hull Company. The merger settled a long-running patent dispute. The company started making canning equipment in 1904, and created the first continuous cooker in 1913. Anderson-Barngrover was merged into the John Bean Manufacturing Company in 1928, and renamed the Food Machinery Corporation.

Anderson-Barngrover was best known for large-scale canning equipment. They created rotary pressure cookers to speed manufacturing of canned foods[1].

Locations

Location Years Address Details

Photos

Anderson-Barngrover Manufacturing Co. History San Jose

ASME International Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark brochure for the FMC Rotary PRessure Sterilizer.

References

  1. Anderson Barngrover Continuous Rotary Pressure Sterilizer: Landmarks in ASME History.