"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 349
ed metal are held rigid by the strength of those behind them, they cannot possibly follow up the full shrinkage of the new metal, and a forcible separation must therefore take place. Aside from this, should the rigidity spoken of not exist, the internal strains produced may act with such force upon… … Fig. 194. Fig. 195. cap, Fig. 194, being 6 inches thick, a rising head, 4 inches diameter, was placed at A, and accidentally broken off whilst hot, tearing out a portion of the casting, as shown at B. The party in charge insisted upon burning at once, and proceeded to demonstrate his ability by…
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