Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 195
brick. Fig. 2447 represents a longitudinal section of an improved form of puddling furnace, known asCaddick and Mayhems furnace. It consists of a chamber or gas-generator of fire-bricks, surroundedby a casing of thin iron plates, say three-sixteenths of an inch thick, and a puddling hearth.… … this is provided a second door of thin plate iron, in which a suitable aperture is made to admit therabble; this door acts in protecting the puddler from radiant heat. A is the generator, B the innercasing, and C the outer casing. Blast is admitted into the space between the inner and the…
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