Canadian foundryman (1921) . utting en theblast when the men begin to nut ur> themoulds. By the time the moulders havea few moulds ready the metal is readywith which to pour them. As soon as poured the moulds areshoved on a little further, where thearbor will be driven out and stood in atank of water. The cope will be liftedoff and shaken out over a grating in thefloor, allowing the sand to fall throughto the basement. The nowel will nextbe lifted off and the casting dumped outover grating and the nowel shaken flasks and the core arbor are agairiplaced on the platform and shovedarou
Canadian foundryman (1921) . utting en theblast when the men begin to nut ur> themoulds. By the time the moulders havea few moulds ready the metal is readywith which to pour them. As soon as poured the moulds areshoved on a little further, where thearbor will be driven out and stood in atank of water. The cope will be liftedoff and shaken out over a grating in thefloor, allowing the sand to fall throughto the basement. The nowel will nextbe lifted off and the casting dumped outover grating and the nowel shaken flasks and the core arbor are agairiplaced on the platform and shovedaround to their place on the mouldingand coremaking floor. Few Flasks and Arbors Required From this it will be seen that veryfew flasks and arbors will be requiredfor each gang of men, whereas with theold method of doing a days work beforepouring off, each man required an enor-mous number of flasks and arbors. Itwill also be seen that while two cupolasare required they will be small ones,while one very large one will be required. VIEW IN ANTHES FOTJNDRY, WINNIPEG, WHERE ONE MILE OF OVERHEAD TRACK HAS BEEN INSTALLED. BEING POURED SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH A LOUDEN DEVICE. NOTE 4 GATES February, 1921 CANADIAN FOUNDRYMAN with the other method. In addition tothis a small foundry takes the place ofa large one, which in itself offsets thecost of all the installations. A few thingsto be remembered in fitting up for thisclass of work will include the oft re-peated argument that no makeshift ar-rangements can be tolerated. Theflasks should fit perfectly on the machineand, of course, if the flasks all fit the ma-chine they must all be exactly flask will have two pins on one sideand two holes on the other. The pins donot require to be more than an inch long,Tmt they must fit. The ends of theflasks should be bored out and the arborsshould be turned to fit the flasks. Thecore-turning machine should have guideswhich will insure that every core is theexact size. From what we have seen acompa
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