"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 36
BLAST. BLOWERS. 19 discharged into a peripheral receiving-chamber, whence it reaches the eduction-pipe. The Mackenzie pressure-blower, Fig. 4, is in common use in this country as well as in Europe. The blades are attached to fan boxes which revolve on a fixed centre shaft. Motion is imparted to… … Fig. 4. — Section of Mackenzie Blower. which are attached the driving-pulleys. Half rolls in the cylinder act as guides for the blades, allowing them to work smoothly in and out as the cylinder revolves. At each revolution the entire space back of the cylinder, be¬ tween two blades, is filled and…
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