. Canadian foundryman (1921). by twenty-four feet, inwidth and length, and at the highestpoint not more than fourteen feet. Theupright posts were partly hewn, the raft-ers plain poles, and the roof, coveredwith a double thickness of rough sawnboards or slabs. The cupola which forcrudity was in keeping with the building,was of the solid bottom type, the shellwas made of old boiler plates, reinforcedup to the charging platform with wind was furnished by a home madefan of sheet iron, with vanes of woodattached to an iron spider, this contrap-tion was driven by a small engine withan osci
. Canadian foundryman (1921). by twenty-four feet, inwidth and length, and at the highestpoint not more than fourteen feet. Theupright posts were partly hewn, the raft-ers plain poles, and the roof, coveredwith a double thickness of rough sawnboards or slabs. The cupola which forcrudity was in keeping with the building,was of the solid bottom type, the shellwas made of old boiler plates, reinforcedup to the charging platform with wind was furnished by a home madefan of sheet iron, with vanes of woodattached to an iron spider, this contrap-tion was driven by a small engine withan oscillating cylinder. The little foundry illustrated in thesketch Fig. 3 is about as primitive asthe one just described, but the type ofbuilding is an improvement over theprevious one, in that the roof of thelatter is of the gable type. This dimin-utive iron works, which was a productof the South, was built about 1877, andis described in an old number of South-ern Machinery by a writer who hadbeen its manager and sole molder. The. Fig. 2—The Village Foundry. building was twenty-five feet long,eighteen feet wide, with front and backdoors, and a small door on one side witha shed over it. The cupola which stoodin one corner, was a square box madeof wood almost up to the roof, with aniron stack about four feet high. Thecupola was lined up round to the charg-ing door; the corners being filled withbrick-bats and mud. The blast was fur-nished by a fan made of wood, only thewings were made of iron, this was oper-ated by a little upright engine. The cross section of building shownat Fig. 4 illustrates a design sometimesused in early foundry construction. Thetimbered roof which was of the king posttruss type, was provided with skylightson the side of each pitch. While thepurpose of these openings was no doubtto provide more light and ventilation, notoften could they be used for either, forseldom was a satisfactory means provid-ed for operating them, other than byclimbing up on the roof, an
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