Modern Iron Foundry Practice Primary Source Edition PDF Download

Excerpt from Modern Iron Foundry Practice, Vol. 1: Foundry Equipment, Materials Used, and Processes Followed With the rapid advances made of late years in most depart ments of the iron and steel industry the foundry can scarcely be said to have kept pace, although the growing tendency towards specialisation, so noticeable in other departments, will undoubtedly affect the iron foundry in the near future, when not only will there be no foundries for general work, but every shop and every workman will be confined strictly to a particular class of work. Moulding machines will be employed in greater numbers and variety, adapted to the work; the purchase of pig iron by analysis will become universal; foundries will be better equipped with suitable appliances for transporting the cupola charges and the molten metal, a system of narrow-gauge tracks extending throughout the entire works, with a more general use of lifts and cranes, advances which have already been made in many of our modern foundries with improved economy, and which, in conjunction, amongst other things, with a more intelligent treatment of mixtures of different kinds of iron, has led to their seldom losing a casting, a habit which is a most important element in the financial success of a foundry. The small iron foundries run in connection with machine shops or steam-engine works are fast disappearing, as it has been found that they could seldom be run profitably and successfully except in the case of large establishments. In these small foundries it was the custom for each moulder to prepare his own sand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.