Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 09, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, December 22, 1961 Page: 2 of 4
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Escon Works Out Fine As Piston Packing Medium
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Refinery Club Installs New Officers
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R. H. Durst
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C. F. Hillin
Plant Prot.
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Alky Plant
R. J. McGaffey
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L. A. Smith
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rings in a reciprocating pump at
Booster Station No. 1.
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Directors and officers of the Baytown Refinery Club for 1962 arc pictured at the group’s annual banquet,
held last week. Seated, from left, are James Taylor, president; Johnnie E. Judge, treasurer; Alfred King,
financial secretary; Noll Bryant, chairman of by-laws committee; Ray Neal, chairman of entertainment com-
mittee. Standing from left, are Herbert Mays, Francis Thibedeaux, Edgar Thomas, Carlton Guillory, and
Elmer LeVigne, all club directors for the coming year. Not present at the time the picture was made were
Thomas V. DuBose, vice president, and Samuel Goodlow, secretary.
Tree Grows In Bay town
Jesse Burch, Electric, is shown above as he decks the boughs of holly.
This sounds like someone is garbling the words of the Old English
Christmas tune. But the tree pictured is the holly tree in the traffic circle
in front of Community Building No. 1, and the picture was made last
week while Burch was stringing the branches with 260 colored Christmas
lights. Louis Green, Electric, is at the controls of the hydraulic ladder
to help give Burch the lift needed to get lights to the very top of the tree.
The holly tree, 23 feet tall now, was a mere eight feet high when
moved to the Community Building circle about nine years ago. After
relocation from the site of the present Research Center building, the tree
barely survived for several years, and grew only a few feet. When Christ-
mas lights were first used on it six years ago, only 50 lights covered it
amply, and a short stepladder was used to reach the top branches.
December of 1960 was the first time it was necessary to call on the help
of the truck-mounted hydraulic ladder. A sudden growth spurt which
is credited to the heavy snow of February, 1960, caused the tree to
almost double in height.
Incidentally, this holly tree does not have the familiar red berries
usually associated with its type. But once a year it outshines other trees
of its kind—when the boughs of holly are decked with Christmas lights.
job well done to outgoing direc-
tors. He was also in charge of
installation of the new officers
and directors who will begin
their terms of office next month.
Alfred King, outgoing presi-
dent, was presented a travel kit,
a shirt and a pair of gloves as
a gift from club directors.
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Machinists A. A. Hart and Arthur F. Treybig are making final adjust-
ments to Escon three-ring piston packing unit in a reciprocating pump.
This new use of Escon has proved to be better than the metal piston
rings with which the pump came equipped.
dents. Each lecture was adapted
to the subject being studied.
A research specialist in R & D,
Chamberlain specializes in the
development of analytical appli-
cations of nuclear magnetic res-
onance spectrometry. He has also
conducted research in continuous
plant analyzers, high tempera-
ture short contact reactions and
wax crystalization.
L. P. Crawford J. T. Fielder
Pipe Machinist
A new use for Escon, one of
Humble’s outstanding contribu-
tions to the plastics industry, has
been found by the Refinery ma-
The annual banquet for Bay-
town Refinery Club directors and
their wives was held Thursday
night of last week in Community
Building No. 2.
Master of ceremonies was
Herbert Mays, club director,
who gave a brief account of the
club’s successful activities during
1961, along with thanks for a
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The banquet was prepared by
a catering service, and during
the dinner hour musical enter-
tainment was presented by a
member of the catering group.
Carrying out the theme of the
season, the carol “O Holy Night”
was sung as a solo by Mrs. Lutia
Washington and dedicated to the
outgoing directors.
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N. F. Chamberlain spent Fri-
day, December 15, at Mertzon,
Texas, High School as a visiting
scientist in the Texas Academy
of Science Visiting scientist pro-
gram. He addressed the assembly
on “Unravelling the Secrets of
the Universe,” and spent the rest
of the day lecturing before the
various science classes on “What
Is A Scientist and What Does
He Do?” He also counseled stu-
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The product handled by the
pump is condensate from light
gases from several units and
tanks. These gases, hydrogen
sulfide and chlorides, caused the
metal rings to corrode badly. A
material was needed that had
long wearing qualities and was
not affected by chemicals. The
machinery engineering group
decided to try Escon as a piston
packing medium.
To use Escon it was necessary
to make a design change on the
piston. This design change made
the piston suitable for use with
three-ring piston packing made
of Escon. The change of design
also accomplished another thing
—a conversion whereby parts
from one make of pump could
be used on another make. The
conversion helped in standardi-
zation of spare pump parts and
reduced the size of inventory at
the Storehouse.
The first reciprocating pump
using the Escon three-ring piston
packing unit was put in use at
Booster Station No. 1 in March
of this year. It has been working
well since that time. So well, in
fact, that an operator of the
Booster Station requested on a
work order for repairs of an-
other pump that Escon be used.
This second pump with Escon
piston packing has now been in
operation since June, and to date
no trouble has been experienced
with either pump.
How long the Escon three ring
piston packing unit will last is
anybody’s guess, but it is known
now that it has out-lasted its
metal counterpart.
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Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 09, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, December 22, 1961, newspaper, December 22, 1961; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417842/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.