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ORDNANCE^ LB U L L E TIN
No. 1
CABLE ADDRESS:
OTTOKAF
PUBLISHED BY
OTTO KAFKA
INCORPORATED
2 RECTOR STREET
NEW YORK CITY
January, 1934
"DISSTON IMPENETRA" ARMOR PLATE
THE LAST WORD IN FINE STEEL MAKING
N 1840, when Henry Disston began the
manufacture of saws in Philadelphia, he found that it was
Lcessary to make his saws of better quality than ever pro-
yuced before, in order to turn the demand from the foreign-
inade product then in use.
I To meet this necessity he sought a steel better than
any that could be bought in the United States or in
[Europe at that time. He turned to crucible steel as the
[solution of his problem; to get it he built his own furnaces
and mastered the art of crucible melting.
In 1855, Henry Disston melted the first crucible saw
steel in this country—a pioneering achievement in the
jliistory of fine steel making! From that day to this
DISSTON crucible steel has been the symbol of quality—
not only in DISSTON products but in tool and special
jsteels throughout the steel-using world.
[ Again, in 1906, recognizing the growing need for
Icrucible steel in larger heats, but without any sacrifice of
crucible quality, DISSTON pioneered. At the DISSTON
plant, before a group of prominent metallurgical engineers,
was cast the first commercial heat of ELECTRIC TOOL
[STEEL made in America.
[ That original CRUCIBLE-ELECTRIC Steel—made in
jcrucible practice, from raw materials of crucible purity—
melted and refined for the first time by the electric current—
lorms the quality background for our present practice in
king DISSTON FINE STEELS.
It takes enthusiasm, love of the art, loyalty and
Iminutious cooperation to make for perfection. Love of
pe art, loyalty and enthusiastic cooperation of steel
pker with metallurgist produced, after many years of
careful study and laborious experimentations, DISSTON
IMPENETRA ARMOR PLATE—the acme of the art of
steel making, the last word in steel and armor plate quality.
Because of its unmatched quality, its texture, its care
ful rolling, its faultlessly clean surface and, last but not
least, its high efficiency and resistance in shooting tests,
it is specified and preferred by the most progressive
governments.
The use of armor plate is in its infancy. Army, navy,
aviation and police administrations realize now that it
takes twenty-one years and more to produce an effective
combatant and only a fraction of a second to extinguish
his life. The protection of man's life is coming to the
forefront in progressive leaders' minds.
The best protection of the life of the fighter, regard
less of cost, is the cheapest.
DISSTON Impenetra Armor Plate is the best pro
tection.
DISSTON Impenetra Armor Plate is rolled in thick
nesses of .025'' and heavier. The heavier thicknesses are
used for many army, navy, aviation and police purposes,
as for instance for:
rifle butts (the back plates of targets), for lining
troop and transport cars, for war tanks, protecting
artillery on land, for covering wheelhouses on gun
boats, for breast plates, for lining gasoline tanks,
cowls and other parts of airplanes, etc.
The .025" strips rolled in lYl" to 2" widths are used
for the making of bullet proof garments, such as vests, leg
and knee protectors, aviators' caps, etc.
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