"The iron founder" supplement. A complete illustrated exposition of the art of casting in iron. Comprising the erection and management of cupolas, reverberatory furnaces, blowers, dams, ladles, etc.; mixing cast iron; founding of chilled car-wheels; malleable iron castings; foundry equipments and appliances; gear moulding machines; moulding machines; burning, chilling, softening; annealing; pouring and feeding; foundry materials; advanced moulding; measurement of castings; wrought iron, steel, etc. Also, the founding of statues; the art of taking casts, pattern modelling; useful formulas and tables (1893)
Bolland, Simpson · New York, J. Wiley & Sons · leaf 191
174 THE IRON-FOUNDER SUPPLEMENT. guides at intervals round the edge correct to depth. Some one or more is set to watch these guides and check the further flow of metal when the supposed height is reached ; but a very limited knowledge of such things is sufficient to convince us that this kind of… … invariably imperfect, if not bad altogether, being either too thick or too thin, or perhaps thick and thin in parts. To obviate all this uncertainty, and consequent loss and disgrace, let a good mould be prepared, having the edges made up very much in excess of the thickness required, after which…
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