Not Farm Equip but Allis just the same

Thought some might like to see photos of a rather obscure product from Allis-Chalmers, it is known here as a Valley Beater.  It is a machine that "beats" wood pulp slurry to physically break down the fibers.  It is a Laboratory machine used in the R&D of paper and wood pulp products.

Wow.....just when ya thought that Allis never ventured into another manufacturing environment....

Seems like it would be such a low volume of them that Allis should have never entered the market by sellin these?

I must be wrong!

Allis if I remember right actually got their start in electrical stuff didn't they? I know in Terre Haute there is some kind of industrial type electrical box. I'm going in town tomorrow I'll try to get a picture of it.

about 5 minutes from my house in milford, ny is an active substation and all the transformers are allis chalmers and have the big allis stickers on them in plain site.

Interesting stuff -- was quite a company.

matt dill wrote: Allis if I remember right actually got their start in electrical stuff didn't they? I know in Terre Haute there is some kind of industrial type electrical box. I'm going in town tomorrow I'll try to get a picture of it.

No Matt, Allis didn't.

OK Edward Allis started out first in a partnership in the leather business then he got out and he struck out on his own and bought Decker & Seville and went to making sawmills, flour mills and castings made to order.

OK so if you have a wood blaster aparter... and a pellet machine.. could you make your own wood pellets???

Velcomen to the ALLIS Chalmers web site the best site I know of ! I'm norske and both sides of my family !  Again Welcome !  Paul Haug .

Hi!

The world needs more of what Allis Chalmers makes...I don't know if anyone else remembers that jingle on the commercials in the '80s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Allis

This link has a little information on New York City electrical generation...the biggest Con Ed plant was built by AC....there is a huge decommissioned bucket ....an AC bucket out in front of the place with a sign that gives a breakdown of its size, how long it was in service and how much coal it moved in its work life...I can't find a picture to post... I know I have an old picture I took when I was doing a job there...but it is buried...I will have to make a point of getting by again and getting a shot or 2

Everything from the rock crushers, ball and rod mills, kilns, and coolers are mostly Allis Chalmers in the iron mines of Minnesota. Even the electric motors on fans, conveyors and pumps, along with switch gear in the MCC rooms are Allis. There's big brass plaques on some of the equipment the size of street signs, wish I could get my hands on one lol

BigAl...I think the hydro plant at Monroe,NE is also Allis. our town used to have a HUGE diesel engine that was at our power plant that was Allis. it was 2 stories tall and about 60-70 ft long. it produced power for all of the town and out to surrounding farms within about a 10 mile radius of town. then all the transformers were Allis too, i'm assuming the genny was too that that engine ran.

Ya , I remember because the Baseball dude Joseph Garagiola did the Radio Ads. It was always ended by "The world needs more of what Allis Chalmers makes".

Allis invented the V-belt(textrope) to replace the flat belts on a drive line in the old cloth manufacturing plants. The flat belts vibrated and jerked and made it hard to weave thread. When one machine went down they had to shut all of them down because they all were on the same power line. With the textrope each weaver had its own motor which made the operation more efficient. When ever you see a v-belt thank Allis.