"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 325
308 THE IRON-FOUNDER SUPPLEMENT. When the rims of these wheels are broken the fracture should show a bright steel color at the chilled part, gradu¬ ally diminishing in hardness towards the body of the wheel, where it should be soft and tough. In the following brief review of their manufacture we… … all the various processes, including annealing, we shall discover how much work, mental and physical, there is expended in the making of a chilled car-wheel. PATTERN. A true and well-made pattern is a chief desideratum in the manufacture of chilled wheels, for not only is it possible that chill…
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