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epackage
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Interesting stuff, still in business in Rochester... I'm guessing it's a Lysol type product.... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7U0nHYyjNeMJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Midland_Corporation+%22rochester+germicide%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com
epackage
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and then there's this...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4RdJ5NdUy30J:www.rochestermidland.com/about_us/history.cfm+%22rochester+germicide%22&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4RdJ5NdUy30J:www.rochestermidland.com/about_us/history.cfm+%22rochester+germicide%22&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com
RED Matthews
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Thanks Dragon0421; for your posting. I am always impressed with that type of engraved script and especially when is put on a container for upside down distribution and/or use. Like the Water dispensing units. RED Matthews
Dragon0421
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Thanks for the great replys and i love to find old bottles like this that has a great look to them. Once again thanks for all of the great replys.
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Hi. My dad used to have a side job and it was working for the Rochester Germicide Company. I can’t be certain of how many different things these bottles “could” be used for. How ever I DO know that bottles identical to these and the 8-bottle carrier is identical to the ones that dad used on his ‘route’ for them.
If I may: These were filled with a sweet fragrant smelling fluid that was a bit oily. The purpose was: These bottles were filled and the stoppers replaced and then placed in a special container on a restroom wall above a toilet and / or a urinal. There was a long aluminum tubing pipe that went from the bottle container to the top of the toilet bowl and urinals. The set up was designed to be a 28 to 30 day drip into a single toilet or urinal. This was to help keep the “smells” to a minimum and to help mask them if they were too strong.
Dad had a few government buildings and a local University to do each month. We refilled the bottles from a 55 gallon drum in the back of the truck and used two 8-bottle carriers to carry the bottles to and from the truck to swap out the empty bottles with full bottles. Each toilet had its very own container as did each urinal.
Back in the early 1970’s when dad had this route, the University he did had almost exactly 400 commodes and urinals located all over the campus. It usually took us 2 to 3 days to do the University alone.
I don’t know if Rochester Germicide Co. has this division any longer or not.
I hope this makes sense.
If I may: These were filled with a sweet fragrant smelling fluid that was a bit oily. The purpose was: These bottles were filled and the stoppers replaced and then placed in a special container on a restroom wall above a toilet and / or a urinal. There was a long aluminum tubing pipe that went from the bottle container to the top of the toilet bowl and urinals. The set up was designed to be a 28 to 30 day drip into a single toilet or urinal. This was to help keep the “smells” to a minimum and to help mask them if they were too strong.
Dad had a few government buildings and a local University to do each month. We refilled the bottles from a 55 gallon drum in the back of the truck and used two 8-bottle carriers to carry the bottles to and from the truck to swap out the empty bottles with full bottles. Each toilet had its very own container as did each urinal.
Back in the early 1970’s when dad had this route, the University he did had almost exactly 400 commodes and urinals located all over the campus. It usually took us 2 to 3 days to do the University alone.
I don’t know if Rochester Germicide Co. has this division any longer or not.
I hope this makes sense.
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