The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 381
. Thecasting is eftected by pouring the liquid metal into hollow cylindri-cal moulds (the internal diameter of which corresponds with theexternal diameter of the tube or cylinder to be cast), jilaced in ahorizontal position, and caused to rotate rapidly; when the centri-fugal force produced will… … Fig. 1. The machinery employed in casting tubes and cylinders is re-presented at figs. 1, and 2. Fig. 1, is a side elevation of themachine; fig. 2, is a plan view thereof; and fig. 3, is a longitudinalsection of the mould, showing the pipe ^, cast within it. a, is themetal mould, formed with two…
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