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The Torsion Balance Company

The Torsion Balance Company The Torsion Balance Company was preceded by the Springer Torsion Balance Company, whose Certificate of Incorporation was filed on September 7, 1897. The purposes of that corporation were to "acquire the ownership of patents on scales, balances, automatic discharging meters, and other instruments of precision and to manufacture and sell such articles.� Five years later, The Torsion Balance Company was organized under the laws of the State of New York by filing a Certificate of Incorporation on January 7, 1902. History The Corporation had its principal place of business at 92 Reade Street, New York, NY, and a plant in Jersey City, NJ until May of 1949 when both the New York office and the Jersey City plant were moved to New Jersey as part of a new factory which was erected in Clifton.

History

The Corporation had its principal place of business at 92 Reade Street, New York, NY, and a plant in Jersey City, NJ until May of 1949 when both the New York office and the Jersey City plant were moved to New Jersey as part of a new factory which was erected in Clifton.

The company has continuously manufactured and sold Torsion Balances. The principal markets for the Torsion Balances were retail druggists, who used them in compounding prescriptions, and users who needed a

precision weighing device that could be used under the adverse conditions that would quickly ruin balances with knife edges or friction bearing. On February 8, 1915, The Torsion Balance Company bought the business being carried on under the name of Christian Becker which was engaged in the manufacture and sale of analytical balances. This purchase included the right to use of the trade name "Christian Becker". The acquisition of Christian Becker offered an opportunity for the introduction

of the Torsion Balance into laboratories as a balance less sensitive and less expensive than the analytical balance, but one for which there was a need. Over the succeeding years, the sales volume on Torsion Balances for this purpose was built up until it was second only to the drug market which was the best market for the Torsion Balance. Additional markets for the Torsion Balance were found in the dairy industry, where the balance was used to determine the butter-fat content of milk, and in the textile industry.

After the acquisition of the business of Christian Becker, The Torsion Balance Company formed a New York Corporation called Christian Becker Incorporated by filing a certificate dated February 18, 1915. Its directors were Harold H. Fries, William Clark Symington, and Robert B. Symington, who were also its original, stockholders; the company was located at 92 Reade Street, New York City. This corporation remained in existence until the year 1943 when it was dissolved in the manner later described, and thereupon became a division of The Torsion Balance Company.

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