Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 113
very nearly 240 tons of metal;the fuel (charcoal) was 34 per cent, ofthe yield, and the loss of metal was 8per cent. The little furnaces of 1$ to 2 J feetare, except for special purposes, very much out of use. Fig. 2377 shows, however, a small swinging furnace in section, like those still employed… … IRON. 107 journals, i (.which work in an appropriate gallows-frame, seen below At / m arc -tuples, in which ironlevers can be thrust to tilt the furnace over and pour through the tap-hole h, which I with projections on which a clay lip, or runner, can be moulded. This tilting is still further…
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