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 849
downone of the spouts P and the jointed spout li into one of the vessels or converters A B. The vesselB is shown in section; it has a silica lining about a foot thick, and a perforated brick bottom throughwhich the air is blown when the vessel is turned up as in Fig. 4018. The blowing engine for a… … at the termination of the blowing. The ladle-crane C and the three ingot-cranes D are used as inthe open-hearth plant. The ovens CI 0 are employed to dry the vessel-bottoms and the bottom-casting apparatus. The hydraulic cranes and hoists arc actuated by a pumping engine working at300 to 400 lbs.…
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