Identifier: ironsteelmagazin10sauv (find matches)
Title: The Iron and steel magazine
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Sauveur, Albert, 1863-1939
Subjects: Metallography Iron Steel
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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loy with, the steel in course of being converted. The sectionalplan, Fig. 41, shows six well-burned fire-clay or plumbago tuyerepipes fitted to openings left in the lining for that purpose. Theirouter ends were made conical to facilitate the ramming in ofloam around them, which effectually held them in position, andat the same time admitted of their easy removal when worn out;a jointed piece of iron tube, with a catch to hold it in place,conveyed the blast to each tuyere. Another view. Fig. 42, Plate XIV, of this converter, takenat right angles to Fig. 40, shows on one side the hopper by whichthe molten iron was run into it by a movable spout direct fromthe cupola. This view also shows the tapping-hole open, and thespout which conducted the converted metal into a movableshallow pan or receiver, supported by a long handle (not shown).A fire-brick plug attached to a long handle was fitted to a fire-brick ring or opening in the bottom of the pan, and prevented The Iron and Steel Magazine
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Fig. 42. Section of Converter, Ladle and TTydranlic Ingot Mold The Ge)icsis of the Bessemer Process 493 any debris from the tapping hole boini^- carried into the mold.As tkis apparatus was intended to exhibit the process, it wasessential that an easy way should be provided for i^ctting awaythe ingots and quickly repeating the operation. This castingapparatus, constructed precisely as represented in Fig. 42, waserected at my Bronze Manufactory in London, about two monthsprior to my reading the Cheltenham paper, in August, 1856,to which I shall refer later. The mold was 10 inches square, andabout 3 feet in length inside; it was made in two pieces planedquite parallel, and then permanently bolted together. Thebase was a massive square flange, resting on four dwarf columns,which stood on the square upper flange of an hydraulic cylinder;bolts passed through these dwarf columns, and through the squareflanges, thus uniting the ingot mold and hydraulic cylinder. Tothe latter a ram or plunger

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