The ABC of IronPress of the Courier-Journal job printing Company, 1892 - 118 pages |
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½ inch alloy analysis Annual capacity anthracite Bessemer converter Bessemer pig iron Bessemer process Bessemer steel blast furnace brass brittle Brown Hematite CAR WHEEL cast iron catalan forges cent chafery charcoal chemical CHICAGO chill Clapp-Griffiths coal coke color combine with iron combined carbon constituents copper Crucible Steel cupola Cut-nail elasticity elements England entering the furnace finery fluxing founder Foundry Foundry Iron FOUNDRY SUPPLIES foundryman fracture fuel grade graphitic graphitic carbon Gross Tons hard hearth heat Hematite Henry Cort impurities increase iron and steel Lake Superior long tons Magnetite malleable manganese manufacture of iron material melted metal mileage miles mixture Number of completed OHIO IRON Open-hearth steel oxide of iron oxygen Pennsylvania percentage of silicon phosphorus PICKANDS pig iron pounds proportion puddling furnace pure iron quantities railroad red-short reduced remelting Robert-Bessemer Rolling Mills shrinkage silicon smelting soft softener spiegeleisen steel rails strength sulphur temperature tion Total United zone of gassification ΙΟ
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Page 89 - The hearth, or bottom of the furnace, is made of sand stone, and the sides round, to the height of a yard, or thereabout; the rest of the furnace is lined up to the top with brick. When they begin upon a new furnace they put fire for a day or two before they begin to blow. Then they blow gently and increase by degrees 'till they come to the height in ten weeks or more.
Page 85 - But the LORD hath taken you. and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
Page 10 - The same ore furnishes the sword, the ploughshare, the scythe, the pruning hook, the needle, the graver, the spring of a watch or of a carriage, the chisel, the chain, the anchor, the compass, the cannon and the bomb. It is a medicine of much virtue, and the only metal friendly to the human frame.
Page 90 - ... out one tun of iron at the chafery. 2. They expect that one man and a boy, at the finery, should make two tuns of iron in a week ; two men at the chafery should take up, ie make or work, five or six tun in a week. 3. If into the hearth where they work the iron sows (whether...
Page 89 - ... whole. Care also must be taken that it be not too much burned, for then it will loop, ie, melt and run together in a mass. After it is burnt, they beat it into small pieces with an iron sledge, and then put it into the furnace (which is before charged with coals), casting it upon the top of the coals, where it melts and falls into the hearth, in the space of about twelve hours, more or less, and then it runs into a sow. The hearth, or bottom of the furnace, is...
Page 90 - Loop they take out with their shingling tongs, and beat it with Iron sledges upon an Iron plate near the fire, that so it may not fall in pieces but be in a capacity to be carried under the hammer. Under which they then removing it, and drawing a little water, beat it with the hammer very gently, which forces cinder and dross out of the matter, afterwards by degrees...
Page 89 - ... quarters, they put a load of mine, which contains eighteen bushels. "A hearth ordinarily, if made of good stone, will last forty foundays, that is forty weeks, during which time the fire is never let go out. They never blow twice upon one hearth, though they go upon it not above five or six foundays. "The cinder, like scum, swims upon the melted metal in the hearth, and is let out once or twice before a sow is cast. " THE MANNER OF WORKING THE IRON AT THE FORGE OH HAMMER.
Page 89 - When they begin upon a new furnace they put fire for a day or two before they begin to blow. " Then they blow gently and increase by degrees, till they come to the height in ten weeks or more. " Every six days they call a Founday, in which space they make...
Page 88 - THE MANNER OF THE IRON WORK AT THE FURNACE. " The iron-mine lies sometimes deeper, sometimes shallower, in the earth, from four to forty [feet] and upward. " There are several sorts of mine, some hard, some gentle, some rich, some coarser. The iron-masters always mix different sorts of mine together, otherwise they will not melt to advantage. " When the mine is brought in, they take...
Page 10 - It is capable of being cast into molds of any form; of being drawn out into wires of any desired strength or fineness; of being extended into plates or sheets; of being bent in every direction; of being sharpened, hardened and softened at pleasure. " Iron accommodates itself to all our wants, our desires and even our caprices. It is equally serviceable to the arts, the sciences, to agriculture and war. The same ore furnishes the sword, the ploughshare, the...