"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 92
75 CASTINGS OF ONE HUNDRED TONS. gradual and easy descent in the direction of the runner; also, if the great advantage of having the cupolas tapped … directly into the dam be desired, their bottoms must be slightly higher than the top of the dam, as seen at Fig. 18. The crane ladles which would be required for this occa¬ sion are somewhat larger than those commonly used, and
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