"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 355
broken off, it may be fused to the casting by following the directions given. Let the casting, previously made as hot as practicable, be sunk into the floor, and place the first core, A, Fig. 200, directly under the fracture, evenly divided as seen; the piece to be attached is then set in its… … Fig. 199. Fig. 200. backed firmly with sand, as shown at Fig. 200, and weighted down; the pig-bed F is then formed, and all is ready for the iron. With a ladle, after the manner shown in Fig. 196, a steady stream of hot iron can be continuously directed along the line of the fissure. Core D being…
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