. Canadian foundryman (1921). The new safety shoe for molders. Note its many advantage* 36 CANADIAN FOUNDRYMAN Vol. XII. MELTING GREY IRON IN THEELECTRIC FURNACE Editor Canadian Foundryman:—Inyour September issue, page 32 appearsan article by H. C Bromer on electricfurnace melting of iron. The article isinteresting enough and will no doubttend to spread knowledge of what is be-ing done with electric furnaces in theiron foundry. A point, in the article, however, towhich very many of your readers willtake exception is the use of the tradename Lectromelt to a perfectly wellknown and simple metall
. Canadian foundryman (1921). The new safety shoe for molders. Note its many advantage* 36 CANADIAN FOUNDRYMAN Vol. XII. MELTING GREY IRON IN THEELECTRIC FURNACE Editor Canadian Foundryman:—Inyour September issue, page 32 appearsan article by H. C Bromer on electricfurnace melting of iron. The article isinteresting enough and will no doubttend to spread knowledge of what is be-ing done with electric furnaces in theiron foundry. A point, in the article, however, towhich very many of your readers willtake exception is the use of the tradename Lectromelt to a perfectly wellknown and simple metallurgical opera-tion—viz., that of electric melting ofiron scrap. Several times in the articlewe are referred to this trade name asdesignating Special Iron, a Process,Castings, metal, Grey Iron, tem-perature, a furnace and iron. Theparticular type of electric meltingfurnace used does not in any way war-rant our speaking of it as a Smithsiron, Smiths temperature regulation,Smiths process, Smiths Grey iron,etc. The actual, furnace is merely a three-top electrical furnace based on thetwenty-year-old invention of the
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