"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 202
runners would be far from complete were the very useful ones shown at Fig. 99 to be omitted. These are of universal application amongst a miscellaneous class of jobbing work, and where the mould is not too deep may be relied on for producing clean work, because, being thin, they allow of the basin… … them spiked as shown at Fig. 99«, A and B being simply common nails driven in a short distance, and the remaining y o part filed to a point. The arrangement of drop-runners does not seem to receive that amount of patronage which I think it should do. When the bottom of the mould can be made to bear…
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