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Title: Canadian foundryman (1921)
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Foundries Foundry workers
Publisher: Toronto : MacLean Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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atedon either sides of the platform. Themachine B, Fig. 2, is used for mak-ing the drags, and is placed at a suf-ficient distance from the platform Pto allow for the installation of a smallsec ion of gravity conveyor C uponwhich the drags are deposited, face sideup after ramming and having the patterndrawn. The truck D delivers the cores di-rectly from the core room and they areplaced • in the drag while it is restingon the gravity conveyor. The drag;s then sHd on to a car, on th° platfform,directly in line w,ith the conveyor. In the meantime, a cope has beencompleted on the machine A which islocated sufficiently far from the plat-form to permit of the cope being fin-ished while another is being made. Af-ter finishing, the_ cope is closed over thedrag resting on the platform. Theplatform is now advanced an amountequal to the space of a car, thus bring-ing an empty one into line ready toreceive another mold. Fig. 3 is a view taken across the twomolding machines and showing their re-
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Fig. 2 shows layout of moving platform which will be frequentlyreferred to. November, 1921 CANADIAN FOUNDRYMAN IV lation to the moving platform. Thesand is delivered to the mold throughthe sand chute shown over the moldingmachine and will be described more ful-ly later. The trolley carrying the air hoist onwhich the copes are handled can beclearly seen passing over the center ofthe molding machine, and track extend-ing across the moving platform. Thehoist carries a bale which engages thelugs on the mold, making it easy to turnwhen suspended from the hoist. Referring again to Fig. 2, the plat-form carrying the molds is advanced inthe direction indicated by the arrowsto the position G where the pouring isdone. H represents the receiving ladleat the cupola and from this the ironis poured into distributing ladles whichare carried on the track I which pass-es directly over the center of the plat-form. The pouring for the entire foun-dry is done by two men stationed oneither side of the pla

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