Hemingray Petticoat Insulator

The hemingray glass company operated between 1848 1972 and was the largest manufacturer of glass insulators in the world.

Hemingray petticoat insulator.

Make offer vintage hemingray blue glass insulator lot of 8 no 12 no 9 petticoat. 3 80 6d 20h 13 25 shipping. 1 inner skirt and 1 outer skirt. It has a square wire groove.

Make offer vtg blue green glass electrical insulator hemingray 42 usa beaded antique aqua. Antique hemingray no 42 predrilled glass insulator light lamp clear 100 availabl. Not sure which hemingray glass insulator you have. Good condition shows wear from use some chips scratches and burn marks.

We can narrow it down with just a few questions. 3 how many petticoats skirts does your insulator have. 2 how many wire grooves does your insulator have. In the early days of the telephone single petticoat insulators were standard for toll line construction.

Most of these are the new double petticoat styles cd 145 cd 151 cd 162 and cd 164. The more skirts petticoats an insulator had the longer the total distance from the wire groove to the pin holding the insulator was. This mold style only appears in 030 and 040 embossings. Aqua glass insulator hemingray patent may 2 1893 petticoat antique vintage.

This web site is dedicated to providing information on every insulator style made by hemingray. Note the wire groove is lower down and the insulator is slightly shorter than the other molds. 9 clear insulator with original mounting peg. The embossing hemingray appears on several new styles of insulators.

Free shipping on many items. 1893 may 2 ralph hemingray receives a patent for drip points or teats. 5 out of 5 stars 227 227 reviews 21 00 free shipping favorite add to. This feature is quickly added to nearly all styles of insulators that are in production.

This hemingray embossed version is embossed with double petticoat on the rear skirt. 16 has about the longest leakage path possible for a single petticoat type on a standard pin. Hemingray petticoat glass insulator beehive insulator telephone insulator telegraph insulator electric insulator vintage glass andysantiquesandfarm. 16 with a single petticoat is still widely used for lines of medium length the no.

Vtg blue green glass electrical insulator hemingray 42 usa beaded antique aqua. A petticoat is simply the original term for what collectors now call an insulator s skirt. Insulators with a double petticoat had two skirts.