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26-741: JBT may refer to: JBT Corporation , an American food processing machinery and airport equipment company JBT (EP) , by the John Butler Trio Bethel Seaplane Base (IATA: JBT), in Alaska Djeoromitxí language (ISO 639-3: jbt), a nearly extinct language of Brazil Jervis Bay Territory , a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia John Butler Trio , an Australian roots/rock band Josip Broz Tito , President of Yugoslavia Topics referred to by

52-502: A "sustaining innovation." Following gasoline power, 1928 and onward included less-radical transitions to diesel engines and electric motors. Clayton also noted the surviving companies integrated new articulated-boom technology , "which allowed longer reach, bigger buckets, and better down-reaching flexibility." Clayton found Link-Belt was part of a more select group surviving the transition to hydraulics. After World War II , excavators moved from cable-actuated systems extending and lifting

78-400: A broad range of end markets, generating roughly one-half of annual revenue from recurring parts, service, rebuilds, and leasing operations. JBT also has an automated guided vehicle (AGV) business focused on material handling in the automotive, food & beverage, manufacturing, printing, warehousing, and hospital industries. Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company Link-Belt Cranes

104-458: A radical technological change to gasoline power changing the architecture of their products. "Where steam shovels used steam pressure to power a set of steam engines to extend and retract the cables that actuated their buckets, gasoline shovels used a single engine and a very different system of gearing, clutches, drums, and brakes to wind and unwind the cable." Most of the largest manufacturers survived this transition, making gasoline power more of

130-493: A square detachable link—a "linked belt." "William Ewart recognized that harvesters with continuous chain belt drives made up of square links and flat links would wear unevenly and break in one spot. Once broken, the entire chain belt had to be taken back to the barn for needed repairs, thus delaying all harvesting." In 1875, Ewart and investors founded the Ewart Manufacturing Company to build and market

156-588: Is an American industrial company that develops and manufactures heavy construction equipment, specializing in telescopic and lattice boom cranes . Link-Belt is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky , and is a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate , Sumitomo Heavy Industries . In 1874, William Dana Ewart sold farm implements in Belle Plaine, Iowa . He invented a new harvester drive-chain which used

182-537: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages JBT Corporation Founded in 1884 as the Bean Spray Pump Company in Los Gatos, California by orchardist John Bean. The company's first product was a piston pump , which Bean invented the pump to spray insecticide on the many fruit orchards in the area. A Bean sprayer is on display at

208-867: The Bradley Fighting Vehicle as well as the XR311 at its former facility in Santa Clara, California . The troubled development of the Bradley was satirized in the 1998 HBO movie The Pentagon Wars . In the movie FMC was fictionalized as A.O.C corporation. Bean also manufactured fire fighting equipment in the 1960s through the 1980s under the FMC and the Bean names. FMC also produced fire truck fire pumps and pumper bodies, and had an OEM arrangement with LTI ( Ladder Towers Inc. ) to market aerial ladders. In

234-513: The Chicago and West Michigan . (See circa 1984 marketing booklet .) Around 1890, Link-Belt developed the first wide-gauge, steam-powered, coal-handling clamshell-bucket crane. Through the turn of the century, Link-Belt expanded its line of steam-powered, heavy-duty coal-handling cranes. The line expanded into lighter, more versatile rail-based cranes. By the early 1900s, Link-Belt had moved well beyond its initial drive-chain origins. To support

260-638: The Forbes Mill museum there. Bean Avenue in downtown Los Gatos is named after John Bean. In 1928, Bean Spray Pump purchased Anderson-Barngrover Co. and Sprague-Sells, and changed its name to Food Machinery Corporation , and began using the initials FMC . FMC received a contract to design and build landing vehicles tracked for the United States War Department in 1941. FMC also built the M113 ( APC ) Armored Personnel Carrier and

286-413: The 1947 British invention of the backhoe, Link-Belt launched its full-function "Speed-O-Matic" hydraulic control system. It also launched new smaller-capacity excavators on both wheel-based chassis and crawlers. This early adoption of hydraulics launched Link-Belt Speeder to the forefront of the worldwide crane-shovel market. This culminated in the 1954 flagship model LS-98 crane and crane-excavator, one of

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312-599: The bucket to hydraulic mechanisms, which were safer and simpler. Link-Belt was one of about 30 established cable-actuated excavator companies of the 1950s. By 1970, only four of these companies had survived by transitioning to hydraulics: Link-Belt, along with Insley, Koehring, and Little Giant. Link-Belt faced strong new competition from hydraulic innovators, including Case , John Deere , Drott , Ford , Bamford (JCB) , Poclain , International Harvester , Caterpillar , O & K, Demag , Liebherr , Komatsu , and Hitachi . A number of these entrants came to excavators through

338-573: The early 1980s the Fire apparatus division of FMC tried to expand its role in aerial ladders on fire trucks, leveraging the Link-Belt crane division. FMC was ultimately unsuccessful in its expansion into production of aerial ladders. The FMC Fire Apparatus division was also ultimately shut down in 1990. In 1946, FMC bought out Bolens Lawn And Garden Equipment. FMC changed names again in 1948, becoming Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation . In 1961

364-408: The growth, Link-Belt relocated from Iowa to Chicago in 1906. The two companies, Link-Belt Machinery and Link-Belt Engineering, consolidated into a single Link-Belt Company. The 1900s also brought new technologies to Link-Belt cranes and excavators. Continuous-track crawler systems moved Link-Belt products off the railroad chassis, removing the need for temporary tracks. Dragline excavators expanded

390-404: The invention of the backhoe . These small-capacity excavators initially mounted on the back of tractors, either farm or industrial varieties. This opened the excavator market to general contractors. Link-Belt Speeder succeeded in competing against these new entrants, making it a showcase for managing disruptive innovation. The company adopted the new hydraulic technology quickly. Two years after

416-437: The mechanical excavator industry to understand why disruptive technology innovations frequently cause well-managed companies to fail. Christiansen tracked excavator companies navigating the change to both gasoline power and to hydraulics. Gasoline power was a less disruptive innovation than hydraulics. Clayton identified Link-Belt as one of thirty-two steam shovel manufacturers operating in the early 1920s. These companies faced

442-882: The most successful pieces of construction equipment ever built. Production of this model continued for over 42 years (1954 to 1996) with over 7,000 units being shipped. LS-98 units are still in operation around the world. In 1965, FMC Corporation purchased Link-Belt as a subsidiary. Link-Belt Speeder later became the Construction Equipment Group of FMC Corporation. It branded products with the FMC Link-Belt name, dropping Speeder. FMC began an aggressive long-term capital expansion plan for manufacturing facilities and product lines. For example, FMC tried to leverage Link-Belt's expertise into its fire truck division. Working with Ladder Towers Inc. (LTI), FMC Link-Belt developed aerial ladder trucks. This venture

468-772: The name was changed to FMC Corporation . In 1967, the FMC Corporation merged with the Link-Belt Company. The company produced FMC Link-Belt branded cranes and excavators. In 1986, the Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company was formed as a joint venture between FMC Corporation and Sumitomo Heavy Industries . Between 1965 and 1985 FMC was the owner of the Gunderson metal works in Oregon USA, during that period it

494-485: The new detachable drive chain. This later changed to Ewart Detachable Link-Belt. In the 1880s, Ewart's company looked to expand into coal handling. Ewart Detachable Link-Belt became Link-Belt Machinery Company. In 1888, the company created a separate Link-Belt Engineering Company for its development efforts. During this period, cranes and excavators shared many similarities. Steam shovels were mounted on railroad chassis. Temporary rail tracks were laid by workers where

520-555: The power of crane-shovel systems. By 1922, Link-Belt expanded into this crawler-mounted crane-shovel excavator market, complementing its locomotive cranes and material handling equipment. As the rail-based market shrank, Link-Belt's crawler-mounted line continued to grow. By the late 1930s, Link-Belt offered excavators ranging from a 3/4-yd to a 2-1/5-yd capacity. In 1939, Link-Belt purchased Speeder Machinery and its line of smaller excavators. Merging Speeder with Link-Belt's Crane and Shovel Division expanded crane-shovel excavator line into

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572-530: The shovel was expected to work, then repositioned as required. The railroad market provided a successful focus for the growing companies. Link-Belt Machinery began manufacturing railroad coal-handling cranes. Link-Belt Engineering began custom designing and building locomotive coaling stations, building facilities railroads like the New York Central and Hudson , the Philadelphia and Reading , and

598-640: The smaller capacity 3/8- to 3/4-yard range. The acquisition also bought Link-Belt immediate entry into the wheel-mounted excavator market. Speeder had developed the world's first wheel-mounted excavator in 1922. The merged companies formed the Link-Belt Speeder Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Link-Belt Company. The company eventually relocated manufacturing to Cedar Rapids, Iowa . This period (post WWII - 1970) put Link-Belt into business history for managing disruptive innovation . Harvard economist Clayton Christiansen analyzed

624-495: Was known as the 'Marine and Rail Equipment Division of FMC' (MRED), it was sold in 1985 to The Greenbrier Companies . In the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s (decade), FMC Corporation began spinning several of its divisions into separate companies, including United Defense and FMC Technologies , and selling its divisions, including the John Bean Company, now a subsidiary of Snap-on Equipment, a division of Snap-on . Bolens

650-691: Was sold to Troy Built in 1991. On April 30, 2008, FMC Technologies announced the spinoff of its airport and food equipment businesses into a separate company named John Bean Technologies Corporation, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. JBT is named after the spray pump inventor whose business was the foundation of FMC Corp. In 2023 JBT sold AeroTech, which produces airport equipment, to the Oshkosh Corporation . 2015 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 JBT designs, produces, and services products and systems for

676-696: Was unsuccessful and shut down in 1990. The expansion ended in the early 1980s during the early 1980's recession . FMC consolidated its Link-Belt operations to Lexington, Kentucky. This included the 1985 closure of the Cedar Rapids plant, which had 450 employees manufacturing excavators and both crawler and gantry cranes. Sumitomo Heavy Industries now owns the Link-Belt companies. Link-Belt Cranes operates separately from Link-Belt Excavators. Both are wholly-owned subsidiaries based in Lexington, Kentucky. Sumitomo's involvement began when FMC and Sumitomo formed

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