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Louis Bettcher
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis A. Bettcher, Jr. (May 7, 1914 – December 14, 1999) was an
inventor
and pioneering
manufacturer
of handheld powered
circular knives
used in the
meat processing
industry. He was the founder and president of
Bettcher Industries, Inc.
, a worldwide manufacturer of
precision cutting
and
trimming
tools for meat processing and industrial applications.
Early years
Louis Andrew Bettcher, Jr. was born May 7, 1914 in
Electra, Texas
.
His father, Louis A. Bettcher, Sr., who died when Louis was 8 years old, was a
Church of Christ
preacher who had studied engineering before switching to the ministry.
His mother, Cora Lee Hall Bettcher, who lived to the age of 93, was a school teacher and lecturer. From the age of eight through his
high school
years, he was raised in the town of
Elyria, Ohio
.
He worked on
truck farms
doing general
farming
,
butchering
and
blacksmithing
until he graduated from high school in 1931. In 1932, Bettcher hitchhiked to the state of
Arizona
where he worked as a
cowboy
. He was also a
woodcutter
, a
hard rock miner
, and a
laborer
building
mule trains
used at the
Grand Canyon
.
Returning to Elyria in 1936, Bettcher was employed as an
apprentice
tool and die maker. He also started taking night courses at
Fenn College
(now
Cleveland State University
). During 12 years of night school, he studied
machine tool
design,
metallurgy
and
business
. Throughout his life, he had a fascination with how things work and how they could work better, which led him to design, engineer and manufacture machinery and tools that became commercial successes. In a 1988 newspaper interview, Bettcher stated, “Even as a child, everyone called me an
inventor
.”
[2]
First years in business
At the age of 29, Bettcher established
Bettcher Dieweld Company
with a
starting capital
investment of $800. Founded in 1944, the business was a small
machine shop
located in the
meatpacking district
on
Cleveland’s
West Side. The company’s first products were jigs, fixtures, tools, dies and special machinery. “I made $883 profit my first week, but there were also tough times. I believed in myself, so I didn’t give up when times got rough,” he would later recall.
[3]
During
World War II
, it was nearly impossible for the meat processing plants operating in the area to purchase new equipment. Because the company was located near several meat processing plants, Bettcher Dieweld was called upon to keep the old machinery running through
repairs
and
maintenance
.
During one of these repair visits, Bettcher was told that if just a few ounces of
meat
on a
carcass
could be saved instead of lost to scrap, it could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of increased yield and profits each year. With this knowledge as his inspiration, Bettcher invented and began to manufacture new machinery as World War II ended. One such tool was the Bettcher Carcass Splitter, a highly efficient
band saw
.
Invention of handheld powered meat trimmers
In 1954, Bettcher invented a handheld powered
circular knife
and introduced it to meat processing plants. Originally called the “Dumbutcher,” this name was quickly dropped in favor of the more appealing “Whizard®” brand name. Today there are thousands of Whizard® trimmers in use throughout the world, and the company, today named Bettcher Industries, Inc., is a leading worldwide manufacturer of precision cutting and trimming tools for the meat processing industry and industrial applications.
Bettcher’s inquisitive mind and innovative approach to precision
equipment design
resulted in more than 400
patents
to his name.
[4]
Later years
Bettcher led Bettcher Industries until 1986 and retired as chairman of the board in 1987. He remained on the company’s board of directors until his death in 1999. In addition to his business activities, he was involved in the community. He was an active supporter of the
Boy Scouts
and received the
Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Citizen Award
in 1988. He and his family also endowed the
Bettcher Convocation Center
at
Lake Ridge Academy
in
North Ridgeville, Ohio
, established as a center for educators, religious leaders and philosophers to study complex ethical and moral issues.
In a 1969 newspaper interview, Bettcher spoke of how his own father had advised him “not to work or try to create things solely for the love of money. Do it with the thought in mind of how much good you can do for the most people. This opens up the creative channels.”
[5]
Louis Bettcher died on December 14, 1999 at the age of 85
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