"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 276
effecting a clear swing. Fig. 178 shows the core resting, at each end, in a trench dug for this purpose; and Fig. 180 is a rough representa¬ tion of the core A, swinging in the crane and issuing from the trench B, over the mould in pit C. In this case the trench would require to be about 3 feet… … and centred by packings which must be firmly wedged at three or four places round, take care that each packing is placed opposite the binding-ring, as shown at F, F, Fig. 180. It will here be seen why we make these copes so strong: the binding-ring serves the double duty of keeping the mould in…
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