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I.C.S. REFERENCE LIBRARY

Published by International Correspondence Schools Ltd..

Almost very good condition. New Edition. A series of textbooks (bound as one) prepared for students of the international Correspondence Schools and containing in permanent form the instruction papers used in their various courses. Subjects included: Mixing Cast Iron; Machine Moulding; Foundry Appliances; Malleable Casting; Motor-Engine Castings; Brass Founding. B/w diagrams. Brown cloth boards bound as imitation leather with raised bands to spine, gilt title to spine. B/w diagrams. All edges red.

Edges and corners lightly worn with some loss of cloth. Name in ink to fly-leaf. Some annotation and underlining else a reasonable copy, binding is tight.

Stock no. 1830144

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Contents

  • MIXING OF CAST IRON
  • Nature of cast iron
  • Composition of pig iron
  • Kinds of pig iron
  • Effect of Impurities in Pig Iron
  • Melting Point of Cast Iron
  • Specifications for Foundry Pig Iron
  • Proportioning Iron Mixtures
  • Examples of Iron Mixtures
  • Testing Cast Iron
  • Chemical Analyses and Physical Properties
  • Cupola Losses and Laws
  • Calculation of Iron Mixtures
  • Typical Analyses of British Pig Irons - with Table
  • MACHINE MOULDING
  • Operations Performed by Moulding Machines
  • Classification of Machines
  • Machins for Raising and Lowering the Box or the Pattern
  • Removing Pattern in Sundry Ways.
  • Machines for Pressing the Mould
  • Multiple Moulding
  • Special Work - Machines employed
  • FOUNDRY APPLIANCES
  • Buildings and Grounds
  • Buildings
  • Equipment
  • Bloewrs and Fans
  • Cranes and Hoists
  • Sand Conveyers
  • Sand Sifters or Riddles
  • MAgnetic Separators
  • Sand Mixers
  • Sand Elevators
  • Mould Conveyers
  • Charging Floor Lifts
  • Pig Breakers
  • Economical Production
  • Small Machines and Apparatus
  • Boxes or Flasks
  • Core Shops or Core Rooms
  • Dressing Room or Cleaning Room Equipment
  • MALLEABLE CASTING
  • Malleable Cast Iron
  • Properties and Composition
  • Iron Used for Malleable Casting
  • Analyses of Pig Iron
  • Cupola Process
  • Ai Furnace Process
  • Crucible Process
  • Preparation of moulds
  • Tub Moulding
  • Tapping and Pouring the Iron
  • Cleaning and Sorting Hard Castings
  • Reaumur Process of Annealing
  • Blackheart Process of Annealing
  • Annealing Pots and Ovens
  • Working the Annealing Ovens
  • Oven Temperatures, Pyrometers
  • Discharging the ovens
  • Soft Tumbling
  • Finishing and Sorting
  • Inspection of test pieces
  • MOTOR ENGINE CASTINGS
  • Cylinder Castings
  • Moulding boxes
  • Moulding sand
  • Making the mould
  • Stripping the mould
  • Cores and core making
  • Setting the cores
  • Selection of iron for cylinders
  • Aluminium crank-case
  • Moulding a crank-case
  • Setting cores in mould
  • Aluminium Gear-box
  • BRASS FOUNDING
  • Mould making
  • Dressing or fettling brass castings
  • Appliances for melting brass
  • Crucible furnace
  • Crucibles for melting brass
  • Melting copper and old brass
  • Oxidization of molten metal
  • Use of deoxidizers
  • Copper and tin alloys
  • Lead and copper alloys
  • Phosphor-bronze castings
  • Silicon-bronze castings
  • Use of scrap metal
  • Aluminium castings
  • Fluxes
  • Melting precautions

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