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"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

An illustration from "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, 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…

Iron founding

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More pictures from "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

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