Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 126
d the metal, instead of being lifted and looped, is runinto plates. The waste in this operation is from 5 to 7 per cent, on the crude iron: mazeage, proper,is done with charcoal. The reverberatory furnace used is similar in form to what has been already figured under a formersection. (c.) The… … A as elsewhere, is more or less appropriate and even necessary, whenever iron i- to be produced inquantity, and fossil fuel is of course to be relied on. Fig. 2398 is a ground plan, on a scale of l-25th of the actual size, of an English finery, blown vtuyeres. In this aaaa indicate the places of…
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