Leo Morandi
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Leo Morandi was a promoter of the new post-war
commercial ceramics industry of Sassuolo
, Italy. At first he collaborated with local ceramic producers (Marazzi Group) and in Salerno
, Italy
(Industries D'Agostino); later, following the sale of a crucial innovative patent
to Ceramiche Marazzi(biscuit selection unit), he was able to initiate startup of his own equipment supply business.
In particular,he used two electrodes in between passing the material to select; if electricity
was able to pass it was meaning that the biscuit was no compact so the material was not good for the successive glazing.
Morandi was born in Sassuolo
, Italy
. The production chain for ceramics, at that time, was very much handcrafted and labour intensive, but thanks to Leo Morandi's inventions there was successful automation of various units.
Thanks to word by word of technicians after the initial years he was able to open a distinct efficient production unit .
Morandi was a reserved man and doesn’t like publicity ; as he used to say :” words are not facts and the facts doesn’t need words”
Typical of his way to do was to involve his workers and his customers in improving his inventions stimulating that spirit of growing that have characterized the ceramic district of Sassuolo in that years.
Ceramic industry equipment examples include: automated floor tile edge glaze remover, automated packaging (floor tiles where historically bound with thin iron wire, before shipment), specialized silk
screen machines, the peristaltic pump
, the transport line, the hydraulic press
, tile
overturning mechanism, press reception unit, and glazing applications done with disk booths, basic tile processing elements still in use today.
Founding the Leo Morandi Industry, dedicated to harmonizing and standardizing commercial production throughout the district of Emilia-Romagna
, Leo Morandi began exporting these proven automated Italian ceramic
industry innovations to Spain
, allowing advancement of two primary ceramic industry clusters.
Dissemination of Leo Morandi's innovations, knowledge, and experience precipitated growth and advancement throughout the Sassuolo
cluster of Italian ceramic
related companies and eventual lead to dominance of the industry, in spite of post-war Italy's economic and political constraints.
He died in Casinalbo.
1945 - 1 December Licence n.424701
Device in order to abrade the enamel automatic from the edges of the floor tiles for covering.
1958 - 14 June Licence n.592220
System for the fastening with iron threads of greificate floor tiles or other having materials geometric shapes similar or nearly.
1958 - 1 August Licence n.598125
Machine for taking away automatically from the floor tiles of ceramics the enamel strained on the edges during the humid glazing
1958 - 1 August Licence n.593124
Device in order to brush floor tiles of ceramics with temporary of over and of under with a single passage.
1958 - 2 August Licence n.593126
Automatic machine for taking away from the floor tiles of ceramics not still enamelled the left slobbers from the stamps on the chines.
1958 - 2 August Licence n.593127
Pump for dense liquids particularly for enamel vetroso in watery suspension for the ceramic industry generally.
1958 - 25 September Licence n.595789
Machine in order to recover the vetroso enamel of the tiles that they turn out defective after the humid glazing..
1959 - 6 April Licence n.606642
Procedure in order to manufacture the enameled floor tiles to dulled spout chine .
1960 - 7 April Licence n.629034
Automatic machine in order to collect into a pile ceramic floor tiles humid to the escape from the pressed one.
1961 - 7 April Licence n.646867
Conveyor for ceramic floor tiles.
1961 - 7 April Licence n.646866
Device in order to turn the ceramic floor tiles on the transport.
1961 - 15 April Licence n.647228
Machine in order to divide the ceramic floor tiles second their thickness.
1962 - 28 March Licence n.685219
Hydraulic system for the pressing of material through one pressed set in action from more cylinders technically predisposed the greater part of which self feeding.
1968 - 13 March Licence n.832329
Automatic machine in order to apply serious decorations diagrams to the ceramic and similar floor tiles.
1973 - 6 Decembers Licence n.1001087
Device in order to distribute the ceramic floor tiles making part of a row.
1973 - 6 Decembers Licence 1001086
Device in order to empty the supports of baking of the ceramic tiles.
1978 - 12 April Licence n.1104063
Perfected device to rotary discs for shattering and to uniform distribute substances on superficial in
particular enamels to apply in uniform way on ceramic floor tiles .
1978 - 3 July Licence n.28979B
Cabin of glazing to rotary discs for shattering and to distribute the enamel uniform to apply on the ceramic floor tiles.
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
commercial ceramics industry of Sassuolo
Sassuolo
Sassuolo is an important industrial centre of the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The town stands on the right bank of the river Secchia some 17 km south-west of Modena.-History :...
, Italy. At first he collaborated with local ceramic producers (Marazzi Group) and in Salerno
Salerno
Salerno is a city and comune in Campania and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea....
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
(Industries D'Agostino); later, following the sale of a crucial innovative patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
to Ceramiche Marazzi(biscuit selection unit), he was able to initiate startup of his own equipment supply business.
In particular,he used two electrodes in between passing the material to select; if electricity
Electricity
Electricity is a general term encompassing a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena, such as lightning, static electricity, and the flow of electrical current in an electrical wire...
was able to pass it was meaning that the biscuit was no compact so the material was not good for the successive glazing.
Morandi was born in Sassuolo
Sassuolo
Sassuolo is an important industrial centre of the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The town stands on the right bank of the river Secchia some 17 km south-west of Modena.-History :...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. The production chain for ceramics, at that time, was very much handcrafted and labour intensive, but thanks to Leo Morandi's inventions there was successful automation of various units.
Thanks to word by word of technicians after the initial years he was able to open a distinct efficient production unit .
Morandi was a reserved man and doesn’t like publicity ; as he used to say :” words are not facts and the facts doesn’t need words”
Typical of his way to do was to involve his workers and his customers in improving his inventions stimulating that spirit of growing that have characterized the ceramic district of Sassuolo in that years.
Ceramic industry equipment examples include: automated floor tile edge glaze remover, automated packaging (floor tiles where historically bound with thin iron wire, before shipment), specialized silk
Silk
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. The best-known type of silk is obtained from the cocoons of the larvae of the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori reared in captivity...
screen machines, the peristaltic pump
Pump
A pump is a device used to move fluids, such as liquids, gases or slurries.A pump displaces a volume by physical or mechanical action. Pumps fall into three major groups: direct lift, displacement, and gravity pumps...
, the transport line, the hydraulic press
Hydraulic press
A hydraulic is a machine using a hydraulic cylinder to generate a compressive force. It uses the hydraulic equivalenta mechanical lever, and was also known as a Bramah press after the inventor, Joseph Bramah, of England. He invented and was issued a patent on this press in 1795...
, tile
Tile
A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass. Tiles are generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops...
overturning mechanism, press reception unit, and glazing applications done with disk booths, basic tile processing elements still in use today.
Founding the Leo Morandi Industry, dedicated to harmonizing and standardizing commercial production throughout the district of Emilia-Romagna
Emilia-Romagna
Emilia–Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. The capital is Bologna; it has an area of and about 4.4 million inhabitants....
, Leo Morandi began exporting these proven automated Italian ceramic
Ceramic
A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling. Ceramic materials may have a crystalline or partly crystalline structure, or may be amorphous...
industry innovations to Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, allowing advancement of two primary ceramic industry clusters.
Dissemination of Leo Morandi's innovations, knowledge, and experience precipitated growth and advancement throughout the Sassuolo
Sassuolo
Sassuolo is an important industrial centre of the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The town stands on the right bank of the river Secchia some 17 km south-west of Modena.-History :...
cluster of Italian ceramic
Ceramic
A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling. Ceramic materials may have a crystalline or partly crystalline structure, or may be amorphous...
related companies and eventual lead to dominance of the industry, in spite of post-war Italy's economic and political constraints.
He died in Casinalbo.
Officina Morandi Leo Sassuolo Directory Licensed Ceramic Field
1945 - 1 December Licence n.424701
Device in order to abrade the enamel automatic from the edges of the floor tiles for covering.
1958 - 14 June Licence n.592220
System for the fastening with iron threads of greificate floor tiles or other having materials geometric shapes similar or nearly.
1958 - 1 August Licence n.598125
Machine for taking away automatically from the floor tiles of ceramics the enamel strained on the edges during the humid glazing
1958 - 1 August Licence n.593124
Device in order to brush floor tiles of ceramics with temporary of over and of under with a single passage.
1958 - 2 August Licence n.593126
Automatic machine for taking away from the floor tiles of ceramics not still enamelled the left slobbers from the stamps on the chines.
1958 - 2 August Licence n.593127
Pump for dense liquids particularly for enamel vetroso in watery suspension for the ceramic industry generally.
1958 - 25 September Licence n.595789
Machine in order to recover the vetroso enamel of the tiles that they turn out defective after the humid glazing..
1959 - 6 April Licence n.606642
Procedure in order to manufacture the enameled floor tiles to dulled spout chine .
1960 - 7 April Licence n.629034
Automatic machine in order to collect into a pile ceramic floor tiles humid to the escape from the pressed one.
1961 - 7 April Licence n.646867
Conveyor for ceramic floor tiles.
1961 - 7 April Licence n.646866
Device in order to turn the ceramic floor tiles on the transport.
1961 - 15 April Licence n.647228
Machine in order to divide the ceramic floor tiles second their thickness.
1962 - 28 March Licence n.685219
Hydraulic system for the pressing of material through one pressed set in action from more cylinders technically predisposed the greater part of which self feeding.
1968 - 13 March Licence n.832329
Automatic machine in order to apply serious decorations diagrams to the ceramic and similar floor tiles.
1973 - 6 Decembers Licence n.1001087
Device in order to distribute the ceramic floor tiles making part of a row.
1973 - 6 Decembers Licence 1001086
Device in order to empty the supports of baking of the ceramic tiles.
1978 - 12 April Licence n.1104063
Perfected device to rotary discs for shattering and to uniform distribute substances on superficial in
particular enamels to apply in uniform way on ceramic floor tiles .
1978 - 3 July Licence n.28979B
Cabin of glazing to rotary discs for shattering and to distribute the enamel uniform to apply on the ceramic floor tiles.
Sources
- Russo Margherita: 'Technical Change and Relations Between Enterprises' (Rosemberg & Sellier, Torino.1996)
- Russo Margherita: 'Industrial District and Services of Transport – the case of the ceramics 1990"
- Lusoli Alberto: "Internationalization of the Districts – the ceramic district of Sassuolo"