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May 25, 2026

How Overly Hautz Motor Bases Improve Belt Drive Performance

Power Transmission Engineering (PTE) Highlights Overly Hautz’s Automatic® Motor Base for Heavy-Duty Belt Drive Performance Designed to improve belt tension management, reduce maintenance, and support reliable operation in harsh industrial…
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October 3, 2024

Automatic® Motor Base Certification

LEBANON, OHIO (December 11 2016) The Automatic Motor Base is certified as an energy saving device by Advanced Energy, a certified motors and drives testing laboratory, of Raleigh, NC after…
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October 3, 2024

Automatic® Saves $1000’s in Energy

PRESS RELEASE Automatic Motor Bases Save $1000’s in Energy LEBANON, OHIO (December, 11 2016) Overly Hautz Company, the leading North American manufacturer of motor mounting products, contracted with a certified…
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September 10, 2024

Automatic® Motor Base Patent

Overly Hautz Motor Base Co. receives patent for modifications and improvement to the front of the Automatic® Motor Base.
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September 27, 2018

Issuance of US Patent For Motor Base Screw Adjusting Mechanism

Overly Hautz Company, the leading North American manufacturer of motor mounting products, is pleased to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent 9,973,056, entitled…
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September 17, 2018

US Patent Awarded

The patent covers the invention of a screw mechanism which is used to adjust the position of a motor. The mechanism provides enhanced pulling power and a reduced likelihood of…
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December 11, 2017

Overly Hautz Company

Overly Hautz Motor Base Co. starts doing business as Overly Hautz Company.
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December 11, 2016

Automatic® Motor Base Certification

The Automatic® Motor Base is certified as an energy saving device by Advanced Energy of Raleigh, NC, with payback on most models in 3 years or less.  Advanced Energy is…
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January 13, 2016

New Adjustable Motor Base Greatly Increases Life Cycle

Overly Hautz Company (OHC) has introduced a new patent-pending screw adjusting mechanism to their line of standard motor bases. This new mechanism greatly increases the life cycle of OHC’s standard…
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December 11, 2015

Additional Property Acquisition

The front end office moves to a newly renovated adjoining property at 285 S. West St. The additional facility also provides for expansion of finished goods inventory, a vast shipping…
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February 9, 2015

Overly Hautz Announces Expansion

Overly Hautz Company, the leading North American manufacturer of motor mounting products, has expanded their operations into an additional building to support current and future planned capacity growth in engineering,…
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December 11, 2014

Tenso-Set Quick Release Patent

Overly Hautz Motor Base Co. jointly develops the Tenso-Set Quick Release patent for Browning.
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December 10, 2014

Tenso-Set Quick Release Patent

Overly Hautz Motor Base Co. jointly develops the Tenso-Set Quick Release patent for Browning.
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April 3, 2013

OHC Implements New ERP System

Overly Hautz launches a powerful new Enterprise Resource Planning system, E2 Solution from software provider Shoptech, aimed at optimizing business resources and shop operations.
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April 3, 2013

Overly Hautz Implements New ERP System

LEBANON, OHIO April 3rd, 2013 – Overly Hautz Company, the leading North American manufacturer of motor mounting products, has launched a powerful new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, aimed at optimizing…
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November 13, 2012

Motor Base Solves Difficult Problems “Automatically”

For Immediate Release Motor Base Solves Difficult Problems “Automatically” Overly Hautz reaches out to European market with Automatic® Motor Base Lebanon, Ohio—November 13, 2012—Overly Hautz Company, the world’s leading manufacturer…
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September 9, 2003

Pivoting Motor Base

The Overly Hautz Motor Base Co. purchases the product rights of the Murray Pivoted Motor Base from the Murray Equipment Co.
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September 9, 1986

Automatic® Motor Base

The Overly Hautz Motor Base Co acquires the product rights for the Automatic Motor Base invented and patented by Jerome Sloyan, the owner of the Automatic Motor Base Co, of…
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December 11, 1984

Relocation

The Overly Hautz Motor Base Company is relocated across state to a manufacturing site in Lebanon, Ohio.  The facility is just north of Cincinnati, at 215 S. West St.
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September 9, 1983

Restructuring

The Overly-Hautz motor base division restructures and becomes The Overly Hautz Motor Base Company.
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December 11, 1977

Industrial Agriculture Product Business

Overly-Hautz buys a business with locations in Meridian and Jackson, Mississippi that makes industrial agricultural products and implements.
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September 9, 1974

Shorewall

Shorewall of Grosse Ile, Michigan is acquired and becomes a division of Overly-Hautz. They create versatile wall systems for waterways, erosion control, and truck loading docks from light weight steel.
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December 11, 1964

Expansion

The Overly-Hautz Company acquires a property, builds an addition, and moves to 8617 Clinton Road in Cleveland.
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December 11, 1963

Harry Overly Passes Away

Harry Overly, an original founder of Overly-Hautz passes away in April at 71 years of age.
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September 9, 1956

Adjustable Motor Base Patent

Overly-Hautz awarded patent on the Adjustable Motor Base. Originally conceived in 1946 by Edward Hautz for a Reliance Electric job.  After the passing of Mr. Hautz, it was patented 10…
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December 11, 1951

Edward Hautz Passes Away

Edward Hautz, an original founder of Overly Hautz passes away in December at 55 years of age.
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December 11, 1950

Adapt-O-Mount

Adapt-O-Mount product is first designed and fabricated by Overly-Hautz. It provides a simple method of adapting a new re-rated motor to the old mountings.
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November 11, 1947

Motor Rails

Overly-Hautz introduces motor rails with an adjustable feature.
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September 9, 1946

Fabricated Steel Motor Mount

Overly-Hautz creates a fabricated steel motor mount for Reliance Electric.  This fabrication job develops into a highly successful proprietary product line.
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September 9, 1942

War Years

During the war years, the plant takes on new war-effort contracts, producing parts for the Bofors gun mounts, water-tight gun mounts for submarines, and radar units.  
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December 11, 1934

8-Fold Expansion

The Overly-Hautz Company becomes a strong sheet-metal fabrication company in the Cleveland area and sees a large increase in business volume.  The Company grows to occupy all 24,000 square feet…
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September 9, 1934

Overly Hautz Company Created

Edward Hautz joined Harry Overly’s enterprise and The Overly-Hautz Company is founded as a sheet-metal job shop with contracted work based on customer’s demand. Examples of the Company's first product's…
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December 11, 1933

Overly Sheet Metal Company

In May, during the height of the Great Depression, Harry Overly started the Overly Sheet Metal Company on Madison Avenue in Cleveland Ohio
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December 11, 1920

Riester & Thesmacher Co.

Harry Overly and Edward Hautz meet and work together at Riester & Thesmacher Co., a sheet metal fabrication company in Cleveland, Ohio.
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