The company relocated to Hermanny Court in East Norwalk, a former furniture mill. Machine tools were purchased and machinists and assemblers hired as the business slowly grew.

A three-car garage, and the apartment above, at 8 Cove Avenue in East Norwalk, was the company’s second home. A Polish artist, in lieu of back rent, designed PDC’s logo, a derivation of the three-legged “Trinacria” symbol of Sicily, in honor of Anatole’s wife Rosaria and her family.

Soon machine design and automation became PDC’s primary focus and its eventual direction was unknowingly determined in a large automation project — making, collating and packaging emery board nail files (gluing emery paper onto balsa wood, rolling and die cutting) for the Bassett company of Shelton, Connecticut.

The Norwalk Lock Building at 18 Marshall Street became the first real company home, in a 400- square foot space in a then-rough industrial building. Anatole’s brother Bill joined the company as a draftsman.

Beginning in the den of Anatole Konstantin’s residence, Product Design Corporation offered services ranging from consumer product development to machine design. Its first years were varied and exploratory.