. Canadian foundryman (1918). er as may berequired. On leaving the hot bed thestrips are cut to length and piled by smechanical piler, placed in stock if theyare to be shipped as plain hot rolled ma-terial, or transferred to the finishing de-partment if additional treatment is re •quired. In addition to the usual slitting, shear-ing, oiling and liming machinery, thefinishing department has extensive fa-cilities for heat treating and furnace has a charging capacityof approximately twenty-five tons andalso the necessary mechanical means forreading and heat control, assuring uni-for
. Canadian foundryman (1918). er as may berequired. On leaving the hot bed thestrips are cut to length and piled by smechanical piler, placed in stock if theyare to be shipped as plain hot rolled ma-terial, or transferred to the finishing de-partment if additional treatment is re •quired. In addition to the usual slitting, shear-ing, oiling and liming machinery, thefinishing department has extensive fa-cilities for heat treating and furnace has a charging capacityof approximately twenty-five tons andalso the necessary mechanical means forreading and heat control, assuring uni-form heat treatment. The furnace mencan observe and control the furnacetemperature at all times, but the record-ing instruments and the records are seenonly by the department superintendent,who thus has a definite and accuraterecord of all conditions and every oper-ation employed on past work. The pick-ling vats are of the plunger type in stan-dard details, but of large size for pick-ling lar?e pieces whether flat or further investigation through their phy-sical and chemical testing laboratories provide to the inspec-tion department all tests needed to in-sure thorough knowledge of materialsproduced, the extent of tests being de-pendent upon character, quality and ulti-mate use of material on order. The plant has a number of unusualand interesting features. (a) Electricity used for powerthroughout. (b) Practical elimination of hard phy-sical and hand labor which formerly hasbeen the rule. (c) Large clean, well lighted andwell ventilated buildings. (d) Extensive methods and extra careto eliminate scale. (e) Unusual, heavy equipment to bring .size variation to a minimum. (f) Unusual rolling methods to pro-duce steels and alloys in steel of superiorquality and new characteristics. Experiments, investigation and re-search as continued by this organizationwill doubtless develop further data andinformation to enable production of ma-terials with other new
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