. Canadian foundryman (1921). Looking down the gangway in cne room of foun-dry, Massey-Harris works, Toronto branch. pany, Limited, and {lave since rearrang-ed their work so that each plant is de-voted to a certain line of work. The illustration shown is the moldingdepartment of the Toronto plant. I amtaking it for granted that the readerunderstands that this company is strict-ly in the farm implement business, in allof their plants and to show an interiorview of one end of the molding shopThe reader will see that it is like look-ing down a street. Fire walls are builtat intervals, so that thi
. Canadian foundryman (1921). Looking down the gangway in cne room of foun-dry, Massey-Harris works, Toronto branch. pany, Limited, and {lave since rearrang-ed their work so that each plant is de-voted to a certain line of work. The illustration shown is the moldingdepartment of the Toronto plant. I amtaking it for granted that the readerunderstands that this company is strict-ly in the farm implement business, in allof their plants and to show an interiorview of one end of the molding shopThe reader will see that it is like look-ing down a street. Fire walls are builtat intervals, so that this view is only onesection of the floor. The view in frontof the spout will convey some idea ofhow the iron is delivered to the stream from the cupola would betoo much for even those molders whowork close to the cupola. The metal isrun into bogy ladles and shoved alongthe overhead trolley track to the most. Foundry department only. Massey-Marris Co., Toronto, Ont. October, 1921 CANADIAN FOUNDRYMAN 19 remote part of the foundry. The dim-ensions of this foundry will be of inter-est. The foundry proper is 528 feet longand 95 feet wide. With the core depart-ment at one end and the cleaning de-partment at the other, the length of thecombined building is 913 feet,—aboutthree city blocks. One section of thefoundry has rather a unique feature—abasement for the storage of sand andother materials, and a travelling convey-or delivers this material to any pontdesired. The melting equipment consists offour cupolas, each having an inside di-ameter of 96 inches, and with a malt-ing capacity of 25 tons per hour, givinga total melting capacity of 100 tons perhour, although under ordinary conditionsonly two are used while the remainingtwo are being put in shape. The iron and fuel are loaded on smallcars, raised to the charging floor onelectric elevators, and by means of trans-fer tables can be brought
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