. Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1913). a-terial and the shipment of finished cast- LAYOTJT AND CROSS-SECTION OP FLANT OF DOMINION STEEL CASTING CO. 22 CANADIAN MACHINERY Volume IX Construction of Buildings. The main buildings have steel frames,the columns being supported on concretepiers. Concrete side walls extend to aheight of 6 ft., above which, there is acontinuous .steel sash reaching practic-ally to the roofs. The latter are of 2*/2inch reinforced concrete, supported onsteel trusses and covered with Nepon-set roofing material. The foundry has six monitors runningacros
. Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1913). a-terial and the shipment of finished cast- LAYOTJT AND CROSS-SECTION OP FLANT OF DOMINION STEEL CASTING CO. 22 CANADIAN MACHINERY Volume IX Construction of Buildings. The main buildings have steel frames,the columns being supported on concretepiers. Concrete side walls extend to aheight of 6 ft., above which, there is acontinuous .steel sash reaching practic-ally to the roofs. The latter are of 2*/2inch reinforced concrete, supported onsteel trusses and covered with Nepon-set roofing material. The foundry has six monitors runningacross at risht aneles to the length of 50 ft., and a centre 60 ft. bay. Eachof the side bays is served by a 10-tonCleveland crane and the main bay by a25-ton crane of the same make. The60 ft. bay .will be further equipped inthe near future with a second will be of 30 tons capacity with anauxiliary 5-ton hoist. The south 50-ft. bay is occupied bythe sand grinding pans, the dryingovens, two open-hearth furnaces andthe Stock converter. The 60 ft. bay. MAIN RAY OF FOUNDRY WITH DRYING OVENS AND NO. 1 OPEN IIKARTII FUR-NACE UNDER CONSTRUCTION. the building, resulting in excellent na-tural lighting over the whole shop. Thewhole of the steel work was manufactur-ed and erected by the Hamilton BridgeWorks Company. The stock yard for storage of pigiron, steel scrap, coke, etc., runs parallelwith the south wall of the foundry andis served by a 10-ton Northern cranefitted with a lifting magnet. The cranerunway is 380 ft. long by 60 ft. its west end are the sand bins. Thesand-handling, storage and grinding fa-cilities have been carefully designedwith a view to the maximum of efficiencyand economy The sand is received onthe track at the east end of the plantand is unloaded from the cars into buck-ets. These are carried by the stock yardtraveler to the sand storage bins andthere dumped through openings in theroof. The sand storage building is ofconcrete, 65x40 ft., and runs at r
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