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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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d-ing or fusion of the cast iron and steel. The cupola for heating the metal is illustrated in Fig.3, and the method of pouring is shown in Fig. 4. Thecupola contains a number of improvements, and is givingexcellent satisfaction. The process of pouring is very sim-ple, although quite ingenious. The ladle or pot for hold-ing the molten metal is attached to two long rods, one ofwhich has two branches at its end, as shown in Fig. 4.The rods are carried by means of two wooden poles, hav-ing at their centers an eye or staple, through which therods are inserted. Five or six men arc required to carrythe ladle from the cupola to the joint to be welded, andfour men are employed in the actual process of pouring;two to support the ladle, one to tip it, and the other to closely watch the process and regulate the flow of metal.From 200 lbs. to 205 lbs. of cast iron are poured into eachjoint. The finished joint is shown in Fig. 5. After the metal has become thoroughly cooled, which occurs in a very
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