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Nom
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Chameroy
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Couverture temporelle
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1838- mid-20th century
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Couverture spatiale
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Paris
Lyon
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Société
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Chameroy & Cie
Société des Tuyaux Chameroy
Ateliers de Mécanique de précision
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Biographie
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The Société Chameroy was created in 1838 by Edme-Augustin I Chameroy (1790-1868), a musical instrument maker specialised in harmonicas and the first accordions, who abandoned this in favour of the making of pipes, tubes and other hollow bodies in bitumen and asphalt combined with fibres or ligneous substances, a process for which he had obtained three patents the previous year. Hugely successful, thanks to such pipes being widely used for the distribution of gas, Chameroy also investigated atmospheric railways but with little success. Direction of the business passed to his son Edme-Augustin II (1827-1890) who also obtained several patents, including one for a new metallic compound, and diversified company production. Particularly successful was the intermittent tap invented by his step-brother Bernard Hippolyte Chameroy (1838-1922). A developed version of this was awarded a gold medal at the 1878 international exhibition. Although Hipolyte Chameroy worked in the family firm, he had a strong interest in electricity and an independent inventive career showing compensating electro-dynamic machines, an electro-photographic telegraph receiver, galvanometers, and an electric motor at the 1881 International Exhibition of electricity (1) under his own name and from his private address in Maisons Laffite. In 1884 when he is listed as a founding member of the Société Internationale des électriciens formed the previous year he was living in Le Vésinet where he still was in 1893 when he patented a pump oil-can.
A second result of Edme Augustin II’s diversification was the making of public weigh-bridges that would print out the weight found up to 10,000 kilograms. These which could be either fixed or portable were largely adopted by the Paris authorities being installed in the cattle and meat markets of Les Halles and La Villette, in the town halls of the twenty arronissements, and in independent offices scattered across the capital. They obtained a gold medal in the 1878 exhibition and the development of balances continued to be actively pursued by the company. This in 1885 was split into the Société des Tuyaux Chameroy, directed by the brother-in-law of Edmond Augustin Chameroy (1853-1917), Paul de Singly, and the Société Chameroy directed by Edmond. By the time of the 1900 International exhibition ten different forms of weigh-bridge and platform scales, some with a print-out mechanism, others linked to pumps for the distribution of liquids, particularly petrol. Development however did not cease the Jaquemier balance was adapted to a system of automatic operation in August 1909 (1).
The company continued under the direction of Jacques François Ferdinand Chameroy (1863-1958), while the third son of Hippolyte Chameroy, Emile Ferdinand Chameroy (1875-1943), in collaboration with his younger brother Albert, developed a production of motor cars between 1907 and 1911(3).
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Notes biographiques
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1. Catalogue official, 1881, Numbers 93, 221, and 444.
2. Ministère de Commerce et de l'Inustrie, Circulaire N° 185, 27 August 1909.
3. For a more detailed account of the various members of this family and the development of their company see http://histoire-vesinet.org/dossier-chameroy.htm
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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147, avenue d'Allemagne, Paris
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Exposition année ; ville ; type ; récompense
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1878 International, Gold medal
1881 Paris International Electricity
1900, Paris Internation, Gold medal
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Distinction
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Legion d'Honneur
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Brevet
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Many
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Identifiant
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1351
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