HAROLD HAMILTON KERR

My mother, June Harrison-Owen Kuykendall, had a loving step father named Harold Hamilton Kerr who was born 24 March 1886 and died 2 September 1966. Harold was the youngest of possibly seven children. He died at Mort Lake, VIC, AU, and was cremated and interred at Spring Vale Cemetery at Melbourne, VIC, AU.

Harold was an inventor who spent his life making dairy processing equipment. He founded a company called James Bell Machinery Company (after a solicitor whose name Harold saw on a sign one day) (reference James Bell Machinery Holdings Limited thirty-second annual report 1980-1981). Harold invented one of the first milking machines. He built machines which would take in milk at one end, and produce butter all packaged at the other end. He was very successful in business and raised a wonderful family.

newspaper article in the Melbourne, Australia ARGUS, Thursday, November 12, 1936: New Companies: NEW WAY BUTTER PTY LTD Capital £ 10,000 Registered office, 200 King street, Melbourne. Subscribers: *Svend Hartsack Hartmann, *Harold Hamilton Kerr, Frederick James Wallis, Donald Cameron, and Joseph James O'Connell are also directors. *Director.

Patents of Harold Hamilton Kerr:

1. Improvements in and relating to internally heated or cooled rollers especially applicable to the drying, heating, or cooling of milk and the like liquids. Joseph O Connell Feb, 6 1922: GB154887 (1 citation)

154,887. O'Connell, J., and Kerr, H. H. Dec. 3, 1919, [Convention date]. Rollers or cylinders, hollow. - A hollow roller intended to be internally heated or cooled, particularly for heating, cooling, or drying milk and like liquids, is provided internally with tapered flanges or ribs by which...

2. Improved pipe union or coupling. Harold Hamilton Kerr Sep, 28 1955: GB737615

737,615. Pipe joints. KERR, H. H. June 22, 1953 [July 16, 1952], No. 17254/53. Class 99 (1). The joint comprises sleeves 5, 12 integral with or secured, as by soldering, to aligned pipes 7, the ends of which project from the sleeves which have opposed frusto-conical recesses 10, 17 engaging...

3. Joseph O'Connell, Harold Hamilton Kerr: Butter blender. / Melangeur du beurre. Harold Hamilton Kerr Jun, 25 1935: CA 351116

4. Joseph O'Connell, Harold Hamilton Kerr: Driving and actuating mechanism of butter churns. / Mecanisme d'actionnement et de transmission de baratte. Harold Hamilton Kerr Feb, 2 1932: CA 319369

5. Harold Hamilton Kerr, Joseph O'Connell: Wooden barrel or drum for churns. / Baril ou tambour en bois de baratte. Harold Hamilton Kerr Jan, 27 1931: CA 308003

6. Joseph O'Connell, Harold Hamilton Kerr: Butter processing device. / Dispositif de baratte. Harold Hamilton Kerr Jan, 8 1929: CA 286182

7. Harold Hamilton Kerr, Joseph O'Connell: Can cleanser and drier. / Nettoyeur et secheur de bidons. Joseph O'Connell Sep, 21 1926: CA 264360

8. Improvements in or relating to apparatus for cleansing and drying hollow articles especially milk and the like cans. Joseph O Connell Aug, 12 1926: GB256348

256,348. O'Connell, J., and Kerr, H. H. May 19, 1925. Milk cans and the like, cleaning.-A device for cleaning hollow articles, particularly milk cans, comprises a tank 1 supporting a shell 17 provided with an angular opening and enclosing a rotatably-mounted grid formed of members 20, 21, the grid...

9. Joseph O'Connell, Harold Hamilton Kerr: Churn. / Baratte. Joseph O'Connell Aug, 10 1926: CA 263266

10. Improvements in or relating to churns. Joseph O Connell Jul, 1 1926: GB254057

254,057. O'Connell, J., and Kerr, H. H. May 11, 1925. Butter. - A rotary churn, more particularly intended for treating cream in the manufacture of butter comprises a horizontally arranged barrel 1 having an opening 3 in one end 14 which is supported by peripherally disposed bearings so that free...

11. Improvements in or relating to apparatus for pasteurising cream, milk or other liquids or semi-liquids. Joseph O Connell Apr, 14 1925: GB232316

232,316. O'Connell, J., and Kerr, H. H. Jan. 14, 1924. Sterilizing cream &c. - In apparatus for sterilizing cream &c. by means of heated rollers the cream is removed from the surface of the rollers by means of scrapers mounted on arms on an adjustable rod and pressed against the rollers by springs...

12. Joseph O'Connell, Harold Hamilton Kerr: Pasteuriser for cream, milk or other liquids or semi-liquids. / Pasteurisateur de la creme, du lait ou autres liquides ou demi-liquides. Harold Hamilton Kerr Oct, 21 1924: CA 243684

13. Joseph O'Connell, Harold Hamilton Kerr: Internally heated or cooled roller. / Rouleau chauffe ou refroidi interieurement. Joseph O'Connell Dec, 13 1921: CA 214603

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240,890 filed January 24, 1927 in Australia and December 17, 1927 in the U. S. Patent 1817833 issued August 4, 1931 - Churn to provide consistency of butter.

Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office:

July 27, 1914 Cooling apparatus for fluids

Australian Official Journal of Patents 1907: Applications for patent in the Australian Patent Office:

Monday Sep 16, 1907 Improvements in apparatus for use in connexion with milking machines.

Tuesday July 23, 1907 Improved milking apparatus.

Tuesday June 4, 1907 Improvements in or connected with the piping and teat cups of milking apparatus.

Tuesday March 19, 1907 Improved apparatus for alternately supplying vacuum and air around the teat cups of milking machines.

Through the years, James Bell Machinery became APV Bell Bryant and then combined with Baker Perkins Industrial. The varied company that is known as APV, with some 4,500 employees, engineers and constructs manufacturing facilities for the food and beverage industries. In 1997, Siebe plc acquired APV. In February 1999, Siebe merged with BTR to form Invensys, a company with over 90,000 employees worldwide.

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APV AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND

APV is working closely with the region's growing food processing industry as it has been active in Australia and New Zealand since the 1920s. The business was then Baker Perkins Industrial which introduced bread plants before combining with APV Bell Bryant's liquid processing business.

APV Baker moved into its present site in Springvale, Melbourne, during 1987 and the trading name of the business was recently changed to reflect the area of operations. These are now APV Australia and APV New Zealand and they are structured to meet customer needs.

The regional head office for the sub-group is in the Melbourne suburb of Springvale. The Australian operations are served with five branch offices in all major state capitals.

The New Zealand head office is in Mount Wellington, Auckland. It is backed by five other offices throughout the country's two main islands. Manufacturing facilities are located in Brisbane and Auckland.

CUSTOMER FOCUS

The present company policy is to maintain an increased customer focus with high market penetration. The emphasis is on close customer contacts and the main objective of APV is to provide a complete and comprehensive service which ranges from a multi-million dollar project to a single process component, spare parts, service and maintenance. Achieving this has resulted in the accreditation of all the region's major sites with ISO 9000 and Continuous Improvement Programmes.

Part of the continuous development of the company has been to divide the operations into the contracting division and the sales and service division. The contracting side has extensive local engineering, technology and project management capabilities. It has the ability to work with customers on work that ranges from the largest dairy projects to all levels of beverage, processed food and pharmaceutical installations. This is backed by the Brisbane and Auckland manufacturing facilities, providing APV with greater flexibility when executing projects.

The sales and service division handles not only the sales and technical support of all APV products but also maintenance and spare part supply in order to provide a full service capability for all customers.

INNOVATION

The business has established a reputation for R&D innovations with the leading examples being the hybrid long plate and the tubular evaporator for the juice industry. Such a system is operating on pineapple juice plant in Indonesia. On the dairy side, the R&D team has made significant developments in lactose processing capabilities with what is widely accepted as a previously difficult to process product.

APV in Australia and New Zealand is well placed to take advantage of this region's market growth into the new century. This is due to the sub-group's technological skills which with sharp management focus puts the company at the leading edge of competitiveness in meeting customer satisfaction throughout the region's expanding food processing industry.

APV Systems and Invensys

APV became part of the Siebe Group of companies in June 1997. With the acquisition, Siebe plc, already a major player in the Chemical, Oil and Gas, Utility and Pulp, Paper and Metals sectors added Food, Dairy and Beverage to its field of expertise, at the same time strengthening APV's position in these markets.

In February 1999, Siebe merged with BTR, a giant in industrial manufacturing and engineering, to form Invensys, a global engineering and electronics company with over 90,000 employees.  Invensys is made up of four divisions: Software Systems, Control Systems, Automation Systems, and Power Systems.

2013: Ivensys is a global technology company that works in partnership with a broad range of industrial and commercial customers, rail operators and appliance manufacturers to design and supply advanced technologies that optimise their operational performance and profitability. Invensys’s market-leading software, systems and equipment enable its customers to monitor, control and automate their products and processes, thereby maximising safety, efficiency, reliability and ease of use. Active in over 180 countries, Invensys employs over 20,000 people across three divisions: Invensys Operations Management, Invensys Rail and Invensys Controls. There are plans to divest the Rail division for 1.7 billion British pounds.

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