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Sealing Pliers, W. G. Goetz & Sons logo

Seal embossing pliers are commonly used to make an impression on to a soft metal seal such as lead, to seal a wire tie on some part of machinery that customers and users are not supposed to access and tamper with, either for safety or warranty reasons. These pliers have a simplified version (one ‘G’ instead of two) of the W. G. Goetz & Sons logo in mirror-image relief on a pair of removable metal pads.

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Sealing pliers – overall length about 230mm

A pair of opposing jaws has the W.G. Goetz & Sons logo in mirror-image relief on each of the 13mm diameter metal pads. Impressions made with the pliers would have the logo the correct way around.

Each pad is held in place with a screw

Diagram demonstrating the logo on the pliers and the resulting impression.
Due to practical limitations of the tool, the logo on each pad of the pliers is a simplified version, featuring a single letter G, instead of the two on the full logo.

The full logo with two letter G’s

80B End Wheel Power Press

According to the Goetz Catalogue, the Model 80B End Wheel Power Press is “Ideal for punching, blanking, shearing and forming operations”, …and making horseshoes!

A variant, the 80BG, was also available for use with heavier gauge metals.

Thanks to Ben Embury from Embury Forge of Shelbourne, near Bendigo VIC, for the following photos of his 80B. Ben’s dad Peter set up their machine to make souvenir horseshoes, making all the dies/punches himself. Ben continues to use the 80B to make horseshoes, selling them all around Victoria.

Ben had the flywheel off to do maintenance work on the brake system and sent the following photos. Also below are the Goetz catalogue pages for the Model 80B. Click here to download the four catalogue pages as a PDF, or click the thumbnail image below.

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Front

Flywheel prior to removal

Flywheel removed, revealing crankshaft and clutch

The horseshoe jig and horseshoes

Branding and lubrication plaque

15P Closer

Thanks to Cazander Bros. & Sis B.V., The Netherlands (cazander.com), for the photos of this Model 15P Closer, serial number 44.

The Goetz Model 15P closing machine has 4 stations, and is able to close between 50 – 250 cans per minute. Can heights 300 – 1008, diameter 401 – 702.

Edgell and the 11PSV Can Closer

In the 24 August 1959 edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, there was a 7-page series of articles about canned food. Among the articles were entries congratulating Gordon Edgell & Sons Ltd. on the release of their new product – Edgell-Gerber Baby Food, manufactured at their new plant in Bathurst. Around the same time, in order to supply Edgell with cans for the baby foods section, Containers Limited opened a can making plant nearby.

The W. G. Goetz & Sons advertisement featured the 11PSV 4-head high speed automatic can closing machine, as used by Edgell.

 


Sydney Morning Herald, 24 Aug 1959, p. 14

 

Can seamer at the Containers Limited plant, near the Edgell factory, Bathurst. Difficult to tell in this photo, but perhaps another Goetz machine?