The Iron Age 1885-04-09: Vol 35 Iss 15

1 2, 1885, SL OW, jE, &c. ty. | ers, il, &c. AND LES. » quote the any other ice list. in the Co. . ¥. Gs. iTY. i f v NOEX TO READING MATTER PAGE 32, A Review of the Published every Thursday Morning by Davin WILLIAMS, Vol. XX XV: No. 15. — Thirty-Five Ton Steam Crane. METALLURGICAL NOTES. In the development of the manufacture of large guns it has become necessary to pro- vide means of tempering the internal steel tubes of the guns. For this purpose Admiral Kolokoltzoff, manager of the Abouchoff Steel Works, St. Petersburg, determined to ar- range the heating furnaces and oil annealing tanks round a revolving steam jib crane which would command them all. Messrs. Easton and Anderson designed and made this crane, which is illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, which we reproduce from the Engineer, Fig. 1 being a side elevation with double-sheave falling block for 35-ton lift. Fig. 2 shows the single-sheave falling block for 20-ton lift. Fig. 3 shows the hook at the end of the wire rope without a falling block for 10-ton lift. Fig. 4is a front eleva- tion and Fig. 5 a plan of the crane. The crane is of the ordinary tubular form, con- structed of iron plates and angles, with a radius of sweep of 23 feet 934 inches to the center of the hook of the falling block, and 25 feet to the center of the hook when no falling block is used. The hight of the un- der side of the jib head above the ground is 50 feet 9 inches, and the clear lift above the ground with the falling block in use is 44 feet. The toe of the crane is made of cast steel and rests on a hardened steel disk dropped into a cast-iron step which is let into a large block of granite embedded in the concrete foundation, as shown in Fig. 1. At the ground level a cast-iron circular roller path is built into the foundation, and a cor- responding one encircles the crane post, a ring of live rollers being placed between the two. An iron platform is built round the post to carry the boiler, coal bunker and feed-water tank and the attendants. This platform is open all round, but covered with an iron roof to protect the attend- ants from the hot oil which is apt to be thrown up out of the tank when the hot tube is lowered into it. The hoisting gear is arranged on the back of the post and the circling gear in front of it, while the engines are fixed to one side of the t. There is one pair of engines for and lowering and a separate pair for circling. Each pair transmits its power by bevel gear from the crank- shaft and is made to reverse by means of a reversing slide valve, changing the steam and exhaust. The cir- cling engines commu- nicate motion to a ver- tical shaft carrying a spur pinion at its l.wer end, which gears into a spur ring bolted to the fixed roller-path casting. Hand gear is also provided in case of need, The hoisting gear’ consists of two pair of tooth wheels only, a pair of bevel wheels from the crank- shaft to first-motion sheave, and a pair of spurs from this to the barrel shaft. Hand gear is provided in case of need. A brake is fitted to the inter- mediate shaft, with a handle to work it suit- ably placed on the platform. The load is lifted by one of Bulli- vant’s patent flexible 4\4-inch steel wire ropes 265 feet long. For the full load of 35 tonsa double-sheave falling block is used with four parts of rope to carry the load, as shown in Fig. 1. When less power is required one of the sheaves is removed from the fall- ing block and the load is carried by two parts of the rope only, as shown in Fig. 2. This is called the 20-ton purchase. Finally, the falling block may be removed altogether, as shown in Fig. 3, and a single part of the rope only used for what is called the 10-ton pur- : chase. It will not be necessary to change! conveyed to England at a heavy transport from one purchase to another often, nor at| cost, and it does not pay to send some of the short notice ; hence this arrangement has/| ore from the mine, owing to the quantity of been adopted by preference, and the gearing | iron intermixed. The first machine designed left as simple as possible, which is an advan- | for the magnetic separation of ore was in- tage at the quick speeds the crane is made | troduced by Mr. King, of Bishopsgate for. The steel tube which is to be tempered | avenue, to Cornwall some years since, and is lowered into a suitable furnace. hen | the silver medal of the Royal Polytechnic sufficiently heated it is lifted quickly out of | Society of Cornwall was awarded to the in- this furnace; the crane is turned a little to | ventor, as well as the Mining Journal Special plumb the neighboring oil tank, and the tube | Prize. It was used with success in separat- is then lowered as quickly as possible into the | ing spathic iron from blende, but the ob- oil. In hoisting the engines make 100 revolu-| stacle in all attempts hitherto made in tions per minute, and the speed of the single; magnetic separation has been the diffi- rove for the 10-ton hoist is 44 feet per minute. | culty in obtaining a clean separation, The 20-ton hoist is, therefore, performed at | the magnetic particles carrying with them Magnetic Ore Dressing. don Mr. F. J. King’s magnetic ore separator, constructed for their mines at the Cape. with magnetic oxide of iron in varying pro- usual dressing in water is very difficult, and a large quantity of useless iron has to be pneias 25-0 w0&rn kad—~— FT + cS Se sup stem . 14-3-— a f= THIRTY-FIVE-TON STEAM 22 feet and the 35-ton hoist at 11 feet per|some of the non-magnetic particles, and, | minute. The “lowering is effected by the | these being usually the more valuable prod- engines, which can be allowed to run at 250| uct, such machines have not been largely revolutions per minute, and the s of low-| used This difficulty aan to have been ering for the three powers would then be 110, | entirely overcome in the machine now in- 55 and 27% feet per minute, respectively. New % ok T. hursday, The Namaqua Copper Company, an Eng- lish corporation, have recently tested in Lon- ' ’ a k —-—-——- —23 24 lo 20 cr 35 Un Lad—-— ad hg down Botte 4 Fig. 1.—Side Elevation, with Double Sheave Falling Block for 35-ton CRANE AT THE Hardware, No. 83 Reade Street, New York. | division. | in passing through the machine, is delivered | through shutes—the clean copper ore into | ore bags and the magnetic iron into barrows. Trials were made by those present with hand magnets, but the magnetic residue appeared | to be entirely separated from non-magnetic | particles. Assays of some of the ores thus The ores consist of copper pyrites mixed treated at Blackwall show that the copper contents of the cleaned sample was 25.26 portions; and as both these ores have a/| per cent., which before treatment assayed similar specific gravity, separation by the | but 17 per cent., and another sample was raised from 25 per cent. to 34 per cent. The quantity the machine is constructed to treat | a Lift. ABOUCHOFF STEEL | is from 12 cwt. to 1 ¢‘tons per hour, the rate of feeding varying with different sizes of ore, and the power required to drive it is | about one-quarter of a horse-power. In the machine under trial the magnetic force is obtained from permanent magnets, Mr. King explaining that electro-magnets, with which he also constructs his machines, are unneces sary where magnetic oxide only has to be extracted, and should be avoided except for ores which are but feebly magnetic, as a more costly plant and greater power are re- quired if a dynamo is employed to produce | the magnetic force. Physical Tests of Malleable Cast Iron. A long series of careful tests of the phys- ical properties of malleable cast iron, made | by Prof. Palmer C. Ricketts, of the Rens- selaer Polytechnic Institute, the details of which will be found in ‘‘ Van Nostrand’> | troduced, even with ore in the finest state of ' Engineering Magazine,” are of particulkr Entered at the Post April 9, 1885. The ore is fed into a hopper, and, | interest. tests of square bars of malleable cast and Fig. 5.—Plan WORKS, ST. | diameter ' cast "| The Iron AS Iron and Metal Trades. ADVERTISEM Office, New York, as His first table shows the results of cast iron. With nine bars of the former the elastic limit varied from 800 to 1150 pounds, the ultimate tensile strength from 36,130 to 44,290 pounds and the elongation from 4.4 to 7.6 per cent.; with the cast iron an aver- age of two specimens had an elastic limit of 505 pounds and a tensile strength of 19,905 pounds. A second series with rectangular bars, about 1 inch by .39 inch, showed the tensile strength of malleable iron to average 34,476 pounds, against 22,785 pounds for the iron. Round bars about .55 inch in Fig. 2.—Single Sheave Falling Block for 20 ton Lift. Oy n= GRANITE: pag: TS yee Re: wap (7 Fig. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA averaged 2289 pounds for the elastic limit, 37,990 pounds ultimate strength and an elongation of 3.7 per cent. for malleable iron, against 1680 pounds | elastic limit and 22,850 pounds tensile strength for cast iron. Fifteen tests of bars with the skin on gave a resistance of 34,600 pounds per square inch, while six tests of specimens of the same original diam- eter, from which about ,'5 inch had been turned, gave an average of 31,430 pounds. When the bars were turned still more, until their diameter had been reduced about } inch, the average of two tests dropped down to 27,300 pounds. Professor Ricketts has also investigated the effect of regular incre- ments of strains, the comparative resistance of short blocks of square and circular section of malleable cast and cast iron, their reduc- tion of length under compression, and the center weight at the elastic limit and at rup ture on beams of malleable cast iron. Second-Class wid . , st 4.—Front Elevation, x TO EMENT VER 1GE Matter, $4.50 a Year, Including Dostage. Stngle Copies, Ten Cents. The Physical Properties of fron and Steel as Influenced by Temperature, Chief Engineer Isherwood, of the United States Navy, has contributed tothe Franklin Institute Journal a translation and elabora- tion of an interesting paper read by Engi- neer-in-Chief E. Cornut, of the North of France Association of Proprietors of Steam Boilers, the subject being the modifications of tensile strength and ductility which iron and steel undergo when heated to tempera- tures lying between a certain range. Mr. Isherwood, in an introductory note, summa- rizes the contentsof Mr. Cornut’s paper, and comments on it in the following terms : ‘*The true explanation is given of the apparently abnormal result that iron and steel increase in cohesive strength by increase of temperature up to about 550 F., instead of | diminishing, as do all other substances, the rupturing strain, it is important to observe, being referred to the original cross-section of the specimen tested, and not to the cross- section at the instant of fracture. That such is the effect has long been known, but not the cause producing it, namely , the great loss of ductility experienced by iron and steel when heated between certain tempera- tures, whereby the section of fracture of a bar of given dimensions is larger at these temperatures than at lower ones. Hence, the imaginary increase of strength due to the increase of temperature is not a physical fact, but an erroneous inference resulting from an unwarranted implied assumption that the sections of fracture at differen temperatures have the same proportion to the original section. As the metal loses in ductility it necessarily gains in brittleness, so that increase of the latter is proof of decrease of the former. Had the section of fracture been measured in the few experi- ments on the cohesive strength of heated iron and steel which have been made, and had the rupturing force been re- ferred to it and not to the section before the strain was applied, and had the heated metal been tested at the same time for brittleness by bending it, the cause of the apparent increase of strength due to increase of temperature would have been revealed, and it would have been found that iron and steel, instead of being exceptions to the general law of decreased strength with increased temper- ature, obeyed that law. Very important, too, in engineering is a knowledge of the facts that the increase of temperature referred to increases the brittle- ness of iron and steel, and of steel more than of iron, as it accounts for many fractures, im- possible to otherwise explain, of marine en- gine shafts. Perhaps most of these fractures -particularly of crank- shafts—ere due to the overheating of the journals, which is some- times great enough to fuse the brass of their bearings. It is well known that = crank shafts, both iron and steel, the journals of which are liable’ to become bighly heated, as the pressure under which they work is often very great per square inch of surface, fracture much more frequently than their corresponding line shafts, although the latter are generally of diameter. Steel much more these ac cidents than iron ones, and at high temper- - atures the brittleness of steel due to tem perature 1s greater than that of iron For this reason, ex ternally-fired cylin drical boilers con structed with steel shells would, when cverheated, be more liab'e to rupture than if constructed with iron shells. ** Mi nut’s experiments, to which Mr. Isherwood thus refers, confirm similar experience here and in England Hard Centers in Steel Ingots, Mr. R. Gatewood, assistant structor in the U. S. Navy theory to explain the cause of hard centers in steel ingots, in a paper read at the New York meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. His explanation is based on the principles of surface tension which Clark Maxwell has elucidated, and he holds that the following case cited by Maxwell is parallel to that of the steel ingot: ** When a solid body is in contact with two fluids, then, if the tension of the surface separating the solid from the first fluid exceeds the sum of the tensions of the other two surfaces, the first fluid will gather itself up into a less shafts are subject to Ve a eperegin 7 4 - fey i ay ; Cor naval con _ bas offered a (Concluded ‘on page 5.) a THE [TRON AGE. April 9, 1885, ANSONIA BRASS AND Th FP} & Atwood | PHILIP L MOEN, President and Treasurer. CHAS, F. WASHBURN, Vice President & Secretary, guiness. tg: Company, WASHBURN & MOEN MANUFACTURING Co PURE COPPER WIRE, i eatuenes 531, WORCESTER, MASS. 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PRIZE ree i d d Medal fs Notseless } Exhibitions of, Iie’ Phitadelpaia 1976, Pats 1875, and Melbourne 1581. a CLARK, BUNNETT & coO., Limited, RED WATFRIONnR Late CLAHRK & COMPAN Original Inventors and Sole Patentees of AXES, BROAD AXES, Noiseless, Self-Coiling, Revolving Steel Shutters. Adzes, Broad Hatchets, | Fire and Burglar Proof. Also improved Route Woop Suvrrers of various kinds, and Patent MeraLiic Venetian BLINDS. SPANISH AXES AND TOOLS. 162 & 164 West 27th Street, New York, Office and Manufactory - - STEEL WIRE for ail purposes and STEEL SPRINGS of every description. IRON AGE. 3 Revolving Conduct« ors’ Punch. Punch, a FRED. J MEYERS MEC, C0., Chair. Flower Stand, Ww rought-+ iron Fence, e COVINGTON, Ky. Manufacturers ot WIRE GOODS OF ALL KINDS, Wrought-iron Fencing, Cresting and Hardware Specialties, Send for Illustrated Catalogue and Price List, Sand Screen 2naaase COE eX | OX Bu aii EY ef Yuan d e taf en Saat Carin LL bike Este LUDLOW- as _—_ re. Tr. ” - ae wi Pi inerte. rat fi WIRE, WIRE CLOTH, WIRE ROPE, Counter Railings, Window Guards, Iron and Wire Fences, PLAIN AND BARBED FENCING WIRE. National Wire and Iron Co. DETROIT, MANUFACTURERS OF MICH., Iron Stairs, Railings, Illuminated Sidewalk Tile, Shutters, Guards AND SOUNDRY SOPPLIES. JOHN A, McCOSH, “Bee. and ‘Treas. LIFTER AND CARRIER. a i“ US McoCOSH, President, BARB WIRE CO) eer —— NO DANGER OF CUT TING HANDS OR TEAR. ING CLOTHES. SAVES THE PRICE OF THE LIFTER MANY TIMES EVERY DAY Manufactured / Solely by [PATENTED.] Hawkeye Steel Barb Fence Co., Burlington, lowa. Our Agents, John H. Graham & Co., 113 Chambers St.. carry stock of our Lifters. and will supply at Factory prices. The above cut represents Preston's Patent Braided Cable Wire Fence Rail, manufactured by the HOLLOW CABLE MFG. CO., Hornelisville, N. Y. We also manufacture extensively four different er Wire Clothes Lines. Send for Circulars and Price Lists. ___—C*. 8. CHAMBERLAIN 86 Doarbors 55 Dearborn St., | St., Chicago, the THORN ~ JK THORN WIRE HEDGE CO., CHICAGO, ILL., SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF KELLY STEEL BARB WIRE, AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN § and C” and Red Star Barb Wires, Staples, Gates, be, Write for c atalogue an’ d Spec c vial Price es. NEW HAVEN NUT Cco., MANUFACTURERS OF HOT-PRESSED NUTS AND WASHERS. | See Iron Age First Issue Each Month. WESTVILLE, CONN. “WICKWIRE BROTHERS, MANUFACTURERS OF WIRE CLOTH and WIRE GOODS : “ Dish Covers, CORTLAND Corn Poppers, CORTLAND, N. Y., INDOW SCREE Coal Sieves W ~~ i Flour Sieves WIRE CLOTH. ‘Etc, Ftc, Metallic Stove Sieve. 1 THE IRON AGH. OGDEN & WALLACE, Marshall Lefferts & Co.. D W. D. WOOD & CO., L’d, IRS ite, 85, 87, 89 & 91 Elm St., New York. 90 Beekman St., New York City, OXF ORI PITTSBURGH, PaA.. Engineer & Contractor, Iron =2 Steel galvanized Sheet Iron, Cut Nails a Of every description kept in stock. Giada, eat Refined alt Madea, Ww H | T Ww E L L Agents for Park, Brother & Co.'s Galvanized Wire, Telegraph and Fence ; Galvanized T T STOVE BLACK DIAMOND STEEL. | 1gsnteent ti anatd ha oatntoe SPIKES All sizes of Cast and aoe Steel con _ woe Jae CORRUGATED SHEET IRON edie Gee int Gk. For Roofing, &c,, Galvanized, Plain or Painted. p | t R S 0) f Best Charcoal, Best Refined and Common 3) SHEET IRON. ESTABLISHED 1790, PL ATE AND T ANK [Ron, / + / / 24 to 27 West St., cor. Morris, | ,©,N9.1.0-H- So. 1, CH: No.1 Flange, Best Flange, ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF IRON WORK GALVANIZED OR TINNED TO ORDER. Price list and quotations sent ans Spee Speeewen. application. UtsTer [RON. p= a oe : FOX & DRUMMOND, All Sizes and Shapes Kept in Stock.) — + ipo Gas AND WATER PIPE ABEEL BROS 2 TO 48 INCHES DIAMETER. s5 68 Wall Street, NEW YORK. IRON MERCHANTS, JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO., SCOTCH AND AMERICAN ee amon, | Bw TOME. “A-R.M.CO.” SHAFTING| PIG TRON, ALSO GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF “ NORWAY,’ " “ULSTER,” “ CATASAUQUA,” Ulster Iron Works, SAUGERTIES, ULSTER COUNTY, REFINED AND COMMON IRON, NEW YORK. BAND, HOOP AND SCROLL IRON. WILLIAM MULLIGAN, _———— J. S SCRANTON, Sales Agent, 81, 83 and 85 Washington Street, NEW YORK, JOHN J. HARRISON IRON AND METAL DEALER, 558, s60, s62 WATER ST. & og, 306 CHERRY 8T. NEW YORK, has on hand, and offers for sale, the following: Scotch and American Pig Ir in, Wrought, Cast and Machinery Scrap Iron, Car Wheels, Axles ae Heavy Wrou ht fron; als 0 nd Copper, Composition, Bras Lead, Pewter, Zine, BURDENS HORSE SHOES. MANUFACTURERS OF PATENT The following parties either have them in use or ander construction : P] ; h d Sh t I Cedar Point Iron Co., B. Y y Dunbar egy Co., ans e ee ron ; Crane Iron Co., Pa. P. Pennsylv a Steel © Oo, Pa. ‘atented April 8th, Ss oO Neshannock Iron Co., Pa. 6th. 18 J ; ays See em en See R. H. Coleman, Lebanon. Pa. 74; Jan. 11, 1876; Oct. 17th, 1876; Jan. 11th : F Chester Rollin Mill Co., Pa. ri, 18773 Feb. oth, 1877; Dec. roth, 1878 ; Davenport Fatrbairn &'Co., Pa Jan. roth, 1882 ; Jan 1st, 1884 ; Feb. rth, 1884 : Isabella Furnace Co., March 4th, 1884 ; Jan. 6th, 1885. Paxton Furnaces, Pa. Spearman Iron Co., Pa. NEW YORK CITY. Guaranteed fully equal in all respects to the Eine ines Wores, Cate 0., Ohic. Winona Furnace Co., O io. > a TE TSST/ N Moss & Marshall, Ohio. IMPORTED RUSSIA IRON, Camptell € Sons, Onto, ocki v ron C nio. and at a less price. Cleveland Rolling Mill Co., Obte Meier Iron Co ALSO North C hicago Steel Co., TL. Union Iron and Steel Co., ILL Common, Refined, Charcoal and Juniata Besne @ Furnace Co. Ky. GRADES OF eee tates G L. and s Co., Tenn BLACK SHEET IRON,| Heme Gime Mae we ce. Smooth on both sides. Sloss Furnace a an . SYRACUSE MALLEABLE| WHEELING NAILS. IRON WORKS, Laughlin Nail Co., syracuse, n. y. |W. K. MisoOD, SOLE ACENT, and Carriage trons a 97 Chambers Street, New York. Specialty. Manhattan Rolling Mill. _¥: 8. BURNS. Froprieton | J J EQNARD, PENNSYLVANIA IRON WORKS | 445 to 451 West St., NEW YORK “Burden Best” Mower and Reaper Castings Iron STEEL OF ALL KINDS. TELEPHONE CALL, ** NASSAU, 379.” A. R. WHITNEY & €0,, MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS lron and Steel Boiler Rivets. DANIEL F. COONEY, 88 Washington St., THE BURDEN IRON C0 — 177 & 179 Bank St,, AGENCIES : BOILER PLATES AND SHEET IRON, -| Everson, Hammond & Orr, Ltd. MANUFACTURER OF PORTAGE TRON CO., Limited, Merchant Ironand| LAP-WELDED BOILER FLUE SECOND AV TTS ; : wonar a STEEL & IRON CO., Homogeneous Boiler Rivets. Angle & T Iron, Cut Nails & spikes E., PI BURGH, PA., rd re) it s E S H O E | R O N, Steel Plates Agency for Glasgow Iron Co., Joseph L. Bailey & C TROY | MANUFACTURERS OF BAY STATE TRON CO., Tank, Boiler and Girder | Five ee io Lebanon | ‘Rolling iit," Aitison 7 L h t S h e et i r Toe Calk Steel, Rods, Ovals, Half Ovals and Flats. - brated Boil-r Rivets ; Homogeneous Sreel, Boller and .. PTE EL (en | ist STEER |S OM. /KEYSTONE ROLLING MILL, Limited B. FEF. JUDSON, ROOFING SHEET Manufacturers of A. M. BYERS & CO., Wrought Iron Pipe. CARNEGIE BROS. & CO., Limited, Iron and Steel Beams, Coane, She and bhafting. P. NAIL CO ’S Steel W THE CHESTER PIPE AND @ TUBE CO. Plans and estimates furnished and contracts = for erecting Lron Structures of every descrip- tion. Books containing cuts of all iron made sent on application ee mali. Sample pieces at office. Please ad Hudson St. _New York. York. BORDEN & LUVELL, | Commission Merchants, of all grades a specialty. Prices quoted promptly upon application. Importer of and Dealer in SCOTCH AND AMERICAN Pigs Iron, Wr.ught & Cast Scrap Iron, OLD METALS. American & English Refined Iron. 353 £ 5% Suacw St} ~NEW YORK EGLESTON BROS, & CO., IRON, CORRUGATED AND CRIMPED IRON ROOFING & SIDING, Pittsb urgh, Pa Bonnell, Botsford & Co., IRON, NAILS AND SPIKES AND BURDEN’S H. B. & §. Bar Iron. Also Best Grades of Iron Buildings, Roofs, Shutters, Doo 8k ky lights, Bridges, "ae. i Shenines 70 & 71 West 8t., A STOCK OF $B6 Bout Sv} NEW YORK CITY, | “Dose sewvone © | YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. GA GREERE, i — NEW YORK. Hay, Manure Fork, Hoe, Spade. a GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, Jn., Prest_ JOHN CALDWELL, Treas. _ T. W. WELSH, Supt. ., eal Rake and Shovel Handles WILLIAM H. WALLACE & CO., en W. W. CARD, Secy. For Sale, Low, in any Quantities. _JOHN BROWER, Si Mur iurray St. =t. IRON MERCHANTS Cor, Albany & Washington Sts., NEW YORK OITY. Ww. H. Watiace. Wau. Bispnam. E. C. WALLACE. Fall River Iron Co.’s Nails, Bands, Hoops & Rods, AND Westinghouse Air-Brake Co. PITTSBURGH, PA., U. S. A., MANUFACTURERS OF THE WESTINGHOUSE AUTOMATIC BRAKE, Westinghouse Locomotive Driver Brake, Vacuum Brakes (Westinghouse & Smith Patents), Borden Mining Company’s CHAS./: LOMBARD © " eS: Cumberland Coals. A 9 Sle. ———a VOUGHT & WILLIAMS, fe ——= Bracers Ho ig it. | MACHINERY, TIRE AND it OSA ‘i WESTINGHOUSE FREIGHT BRAKE. SPRINC STEEL. a = The Automatic Freight Brake is essentially the same apparatus as the Automatic Brake f AGENTS FOR HELLER BROS.’ WM. McFAR LAN D, passenger cars, except that the various jus paris are 80 combinta as to form practically one plece ' Clay Crucible Cast = and Brass Founder So eterno AB pete tt, ony ts oo spon Wa BOLT & RIVET CLIPPERS. For cutting off the ends of Bolts and Rivets, op carriages, wagons, harness, etc. Ask for them where you buy your hardware, or send for cir lar and price list. CHAMBERS, BROTHER & CoO., $34 St., below Lancaster Ave., Philadeiphia, Pa. a ver an time “ Automatic ” has proved itself to be the most efficient Train and Safety Brake known. Its application is instantaneous ; it can be operated from any car in the train if desired, and should the train separate, or hose or pipe fail, it applies er A GUARANTEE is given custome re against loss trom PATENT SUITS on the apparatus sold them. The WESTINGHOUSE BRAKE is now fitted to upward of 15,000 ENGINES AND 80 000 CARS, and is adopted by the ° pepe Railways in all parts of the world. FULL INFORMATION FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. LEECHBURG IRON WORKS. KIRKPATRICK & CO., LIMITED Manufacture of all Grades of FINE SHEET IRONS, (Refined, Cold Rolled, Show Card, Stamping, Tea Tray, Polished, Shovel, Ferrule Iron, &c.) avd the inereased speed possib ao perfect safety, will repay the cost of its application within 288 Greenwice Street, NEW YORK TRENTON, N. J. IMPORTED & AMERICAN ; ; Chilled Cast Wire Dies a Specialty. f | G | be O N s __ Any size or style made at short notice, “PLAIN WORDS ABOUT LAKE SUPERIOR CHARCOAL IRON, For Malleable and Car-Wheel Purposes, A SPECIALTY. AY CHARLES HIMROD & CO., Free to Inventors and Monatecturere, E. B. eos ae + Washington, D. C. Please mentine ty CHICAGO AND DETROIT. PASSAIC ROLLING MILL CO., Manufacture and have always in stock ROLLED IRON BEAMS, Ohannels, Angles, Tees, Merchant Bars, Riveted Work, Forgings, Eye Bars, &o, PATERSON, N. J. > Hoem 45, Astor House, New York. CUT NAILS. Hot Pressed Nuts, Bolts, Washers, &c, DOVER IRON CO’S NATURAL GAS USED AS FUEL. OFFICE, No, 143 First Ave., ' EF, Pa. WORKS, » Leechburg, . Pa. BROWN’ 8 HOC AND PIC RINGER ang RINGS. Only single Ring in the market that clos on the outside of the nose. No sharp points in the nose to keep | sore. ‘CHAMPION HOG RINCER RINGS and HOLDER. pay At Thee nee EAGLE GS Bing th >t that Ee ectu g CORN HUSKER aaa No sharp » the ) bent | ester in in the points in the nose. is the oa “Use smoother. Ringers, 75c. Sings, soc. 100. Holders, 75c. Huskers, 15¢. _ CHAMBLKS, BERING & QUINLAN, Exclusive Manufacturers, Decatur, Mi. JOuN J. SPOWERS, Presiden ALEXANDER BURNS, Manager. THE JERSEY CITY GALVANIZING CO., GALVANIZED MATERIAL OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. GALVANIZING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, Galvanized Sheet Lron—Best Bloom, Sem, | Refined, jae. Galvanized Round, Square Band an? Hoop Iron, &c. ; 0. W00D & 00. PHILADELPHIA, Manufacturers of Cast Iron Pipe FOR WATER AND GAS, LAMP POSTS, VALVES, ETC. Mathew’s Pat. Arti-Freezing Hydrants. 400 CHESTNUT STREET. VARIETY METAL BOOM. iron Foundry and Machine Shop. . = © % t = 5 STEAM HEATING BY DIRECT RADIATION All Gauges BOILER RIVETS, fcsmciret hatin Soces —— nt ° ertical Engines, Hydranta, Fire Plugs, &c. — «een pee enone niiatasi TSIEN ET 20 Boiler Brace J Sock paea. & baienen ee 0) er race aws, OC et Bolts, &e. Pottsville, Secbayiktl! i Pa. anneal — aaa - i. FULLER BROTHERS & CoO., 139 Greenwich Street, New York. Corrugated Sheet fron 4 Spectaity, Galvanised, Bieck and Painted. irom Oorrugated for the Trade. tetimates furnished or ap WORKS GREEN AND BAY STREETS, JERSEY CITY, W. 1. OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE, 98 JOHN STREET NEW YO?!. April 9, 1885, AGP y ida aig a ea ’ eat eT iat ae ie a ae Orde A! THE } MOS Also Also ‘il 9, 1885, -ROW, ORDON, ractor, A. LL OVES em ip use or w York, ~ Mill. -D, YORK, IRON, and Flats. Limited, NT . Co., PIKES 1LSH, Supt. 0, river AKE. | Brake for ne piece of pn’s wages tion within known, Its should the | Customers Ss, ION. KS. Ts, &c.) burg, Pa. W'S ND PIC ind RINGS. gle Ring in t that close> wide of the sharp points > to keep |t atur, Il. CO. ION. Band ano auges nd ane beets. the Trade. NEW YO?!. “7 Beh Se ae a ER Te April 9, 1885. s oe IRON AGE. HENRY LEVIS & CO., Manufacturers’ Agents For Iron and Steel Rails, Car Wheels, Boiler and Sheet Iron and General Railway a Old Ralls, Axles, and eels bought and sold. No, 224 South Third St. PHILADELPHIA. 934 SB. 4th St., Philadelphia. G Heavy Rails, Light Rails, Railway FE 'astenings, am b a 1 Fy STREET Cambria Iron Co., Office, 218 South Fourth St., Philadelphia, Pa. THE PHGNIX IRON CO. 410 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA. Manuf ‘acturers of Wrought Iron Beams, Deck Beams, Channels, Angle & Tee Bars. STRAIGHT AND CURVED TO TEMPLATE, Largely used in the construction of Iron Vessels, Buildings and Bridges. WROUCHT IRON ROOF TRUSSES, CIRDERS & JOISTS, and all kinds of Iron Framing used in the construction of Fire Proof Buildings, PATENT WROUGHT IRON COLUMNS, WELDLESS EYE BARS, and built up shapes fo Iron Bridges. REFINED BAR, SHAFTING, and every variety of SHAPE IRON made oo” Plans and Specifications furnished. Address DAVID REEVES, President. NEW YORK AGENTS, MILLIKEN & SMITH, 95 Liberty Street. BOSTON AGENTS, FRED. A. HOUDLETTE & CO., 19 Batterymareh St. ~ ALAN WOOD & CO, — MANUFACTURERS OF Patent Planished, Galvanized, Common, Best Refined, Cleaned and Charcoal Bloom PLATE «&« SHEET IRON, ALSO LIGHT PLATES AND SHEETS OF STEEL, No. 519 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. rrugated, Gasholder, Pan and Elbow, Water Pipe, Smoke Stack, en golictted, eeposteny, Lan ns. Ferrule, Locomotive Headlight and Jacket Iron, __ Sank ent Best tres ; 8 SS WwW. H. WALBAUM & CO., 206 S. Fourth St., Philadelphia. 61 Pine St., New York. NEW AND CLD RAILS, BLOOMS, BESSEMER PIC, Crop Ends, Spiegeleisen, Iron Ores and Railroad Supplies Generally. AGENTS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTH LONSDADE IRON & STEEL CO., Limited, Bessemer Pig Iron, brand “Ulverston ;” d . U. H s a mone Bey HE iron TRON & STEEL CO., Limited, Spie eleisen, Crop Ends, &c. “ ” ‘*harcoa! Pig Iron and N. B. ALL & CO.’S Dinas Fire Bricks. Also Sole coe Maleate MITE RIVER MINING CO’S. Arkansas Manganese Ore, Guaranteed 50 per cent, Metallic Manganese. __cent, Metallic Manganese, JAS. ROWLAND & 60,, Kensington Iron, Steel & Nail Works, 920 North Delaware Ave., - PHILADELPHIA, Manufacturers of the ANVIL BRAND REFINED MERCHANT BAR IRON. Also, the James Rowland & Oo. onsngton sas cut from their Refined Anvil stock. Also, Plow and Cultivator Steel; Skelp Iron a specialty; also Rounds, Squares, Flats, Bands and Hoop Iron. PENCOYD IRON WORKS. A. ze P. ROBERTS cc CO., BEAMS, CHANNELS, DECK BEAMS, ANQCLES, TEES, PLATES, MERCHANT BAR. Se a WILLIAM R. HART & CO..,| AMERICAN AND FOREIGN PIG IRON, SPIEGELEISEN, steel Blooms, Crop Ends, Tin Plates, &c. Johnstown, Pennsylvania. ee SHAFTING AND ROLLED OR HAMMERED AXLES OF IRON OR STEEL. Office, No. 36 8. Fourth S8t., Philadelphia. Agents for the sale of Glamorgan Pig Iron. JT. Ww. PASISON cto CO., DEALERS IN MOULDING SAND, 1021 North Delaware Avenue, PHILADELPHIA, PA., MANUFACTURERS < MINERAL, CHAROOAL FACING, LEAD FACING, XX MINERAL, ANTHRACITE FAOING, RIPDLES, SHOVELS, (XL FAOING, SOAPSTONE, STEEL BRUSHES. THE ALLENTOWN ROLLING MILLS, Rails, Bars, Axles, Shafting, Fish Bars (Plain and Angle), Spikes, Rivets, Bolts and Nuts, &c. Bridges and Turn Tables. General Office, 237 South Third 8t., Philadelphia. Works at Allentown, Pa. Established 1847. A. WHITNEY & SONS, Car Wueet Works, PHILADELPHIA, ST Clayton Brothers, BRISTOL, CONN., Manufacturers of Cast Shears, Serew Drivers, Kitchen Knives, Roller skates, &c The Best and Cheapest in the Market. Send for Prices. Special Wheels for Furnace and Mine Cars. JUSTICE OOX, Jr. CHARLES K. BARNS. JUSTICE COX, JR., & CO., EDWARD J. ETTINC, IRON BROKER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, 222 8. Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. AGENTS FOR PIC, BAR and RAILROAD IRON CHICKIES, CONEWAGO, MONTGOMERY ANT OLD RAILS, SCRAP, &c. SHENANDOAH Agent for the MOUNT SAVAGE FIRE BRICK. EXCLUSIVE AGENT FOR LYNCHBURG IRON co., Lynchburg, Va., Foundry and Forge Pig Iron. STORAGE WHARF AND YARD, Delaware Avenue above Cajlowhill St., connected by track with rail- road. Cash advances made on Iron. Foundry & Forge Pig Iron. CARBON ROLLING MILL CO., Limited, Best Quality Muck Bar. CATASAUQUA MFG, CO.’S Bar, Angie, Skelp and Sheet Iron. Shenandoah (Va.) Best Charcoal Blooms. No. 994 So. Fourth St., PHILA DELP HIA, JEROME KEELEY & CO., 206 Walnut Place, Philadelphia. SELLING AGENTS FOR CHARCOAL and ANTHRACITE BLOOMS, PIG IRON, BAR IRON, SHEET IRON, STEEL and IRO RAILS, IRON CLAD STEEL RAILS and BARS, MAGNETIC and HEMATITE IRON ORES. FIRE BRICK, COAL and VOKE. MUCK BARS. Handle Old Iron and Steel Rails, vo ¢ Iron &c. Examine and negotiate sales of Iron and Coal properties. E. H. Wilson. A. Kaiser. J. B. M. Hirons. E. H. WILSON 4 CO., 330 South Third Street, Philadelphia. BROKERS AND DEALERS IN IRON AND STEEL. Correspondence solicited. J. W. HOFFMAN & CO., IRON COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 208 South Fourth St., Philadelphia, SELLING AGENTS, PINE IRON WORKS, Pine Brand Plates; GLASGOW IRON CO., Plates and Muck Bars ; SPRANG STEEL & IRON CO. (Limited), Siemens-Martin (O;.en-Rearth) Steel, Universal and Sheared Plates, Angles and Shapes INO. L. HOGAN, IRON COMMISSION MERCHANT, 411 & 413 Walnut St., Philadelphia. Pig Iron & Ores, Steel & Iron Rlooms, Agent for Brier Hilllron and Coal Co., Youngstown Steel Co. Open Hearth Metal, Charcoal Iron, Connellsville Coke, Old Rails, Serap, &c. ANDOVER PIG LRKON, FOR BEST MILL PRODUCTS. Andover Chill Iron for Oarwheels, oc. Each pig marked exact chill depth (4 Inch to % inch), A. Whitney & Son’s standard test. F. A. Comiy, Treas. J. WESLEY PULLMAR, Agent. 240 Se 3d “&t.. Philadelphia. J. J. MOEHR, 430 Walnut St,, PHILADELPHIA, PA, Sole Agent for Sheridan, Leesport, Temple, Lvynch- burg, Millcreek and Mt. Laurel FOUNDRY and FORGE PIG IRON, CHARCOAL PIC IRON, Jas. G. Linpsay, Tuos. S. Parvin. LINDSAY, PARVIN & CO., Successors to Luoyp & Linpsay, 828 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Iron Ship and Bridge Builders’ Materials, Steel and Iron Shapes and Bars, Sheet Iron, Sheet Steel, Pig Iron, Muck Bars, Plate Girders for Bridges and Buildings. Contracts placed for Iron Structures, Ethelbert W atts. Jos. C. Poulterer, ETHELBERT, WATTS & CO, Iron Brokers and Commission Merchants, No. #920 So. Third Street, Philadelphia. SALES AGENTS FOR Pennsylvania and Virginia Pig Iron, ** Corn- wall,’’ ** Cheste~,’’ snd Other Iron Ores. Dealers tn Old Rails and Iron and Steel Serap of all kinds. Correspondence solicited. L.& R. WISTER & CO., IRON COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 230 So. 4th St., Philadelphia. AGENTS Kemble and Norway Foun ry and Forge Pig Iron. Wyebrooke C, B. Charcoal Pig Iron, Buchanan Red Short Pig Iron. DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF SCRAP IRON. MORRIS, WHEELER 2&2 CO., IRON, STEEL & NAILS. WAREHOUSE and OFFICES, | SALES OFFICES 16th & Market Sts., 400 Chestnut St., PHILA., PA. PHILA., PA. New Work Address, 14 OLIFF 8ST. REUBEN HAINES, OoOMREMIIsT, 738 Sansom 8&t., Philadelphia. Analysis of Ores of Iron and other Metals, Pig Iron and Steel. Assay of Gold and Silver Ores. Water Analysis for Manuf’ing and Household Use. TAYLOR--LANGDON GAS—ROASTED BESSEMER ORE, Also Specially adapted to Soft Feundry or Highest | WOODBRIDGE CLAY MINING CO.'S FIKE BRICK ; PATENTS. J. WESLEY PULLMAN, 240 So. 3d St., Philadelphia. NORTH BROTHERS, lron Founders, LIGHT CASTINGS A SPECIALTY. N. W. Cor. 23d and Race Streets, PHILADELPHIA, Correspondence solicited. ee TESTED CHAINS, BRADLEE & CO., EMPIRE CHAIN WORKS, $16 Richmond 8t., ~ ~ ~ - PHILADELPHIA. Chains for Foundry Cranes and Slings. ‘‘D. B. C.’’ Special Crane Chain. Steel and Iron Dredging, Slope and Mining Chains. Ship’s Cables and Marine Railway Chains. CUMBERLAND NAIL AND IRON CO., MANUFACTURERS OF “Cumberland” Nails and Wrought Iron Pipe, 43 North Water Street and 44 North Delaware Avenue, PHILADELPHIA. J. TATNALL LEA & CO., Buccessors to CABEEN & OO., IRON COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 400 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. BESSEMER, MILL AND FOUNDRY PIG IRON, SKELP IRON, MUCK AND SCRAP BARS NATIVE AND FOREIGN ORES. AGENTS FOR CONNELLSVILLE COKE, LOCOMOTIVE AND CAR-WHEEL TIRES Manufactured from the celebrated OTIS STEEL BRAND cg STANDARD Z Quality and efficiency fully guaranteed. Prices as low as any of the same quality. We manufacture Heavy and Light Forgings, Driving and Car Axles, Crank Pins, Piston Rods, &e. THE STANDARD STEEL WORKS, Werks at LEWISTOWN, PA. Office: - - 2208. 4th St., Philadelphia, Pa. BOOTH, CARRETT & BLAIR, ANALYTICAL AND CONSULTING CHEMISTS, 919 and 921 Chant St. 10th St. above Chestnut St.), Philadelphia, Pa. Betablished in 1836, Analyses of Ores, Waters, Metals and Alloys of all kinds, A special department for the ANALYSIS OF IRON AND STEEL, fitted with all the a and for the rapid and accurate analysis of Iron, Steel, Iron Ores, Slags, Limentonan, Oo Coals, Clara. Fire Sands, &c. Agents for sampling ores in New York and Baltimere. Price lists on application. GEO. H. BENJAMIN, Engineer, Expert in Patent Causes, AND SOLICITOR OF American and Foreign Patents, No 284 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, OFFICES, 28, 29, 30. (Coneluded from page 1.) drop, and the second will spread over the surface,” {1 fortiori the two, if liquid, stirred together and poured into the solid containing vessel, will separate out through- out the mass, and tend to assume that rel- ative arrangement which permits the least surface of contact consistent with equilib- rium—spherical, if the difference in specific gravity be small. If the mass of molten steel in the laddle is considered a mixture in liquid condition of pure iron, carbides, phosphides, sulphides, silicides and oxides of iron, it may be supposed that some of these constituents mix freely with each other, but not with the pure iron, while others seek the pure iron and tend to separate from the first mixture. Mr. Gatewood prints an interest ing diagram giving the chemical composi tion of 14 successive ja-inch layers of the steel-shell plate of the Lividia boiler. This diagram shows that the carbon, phosphorus and sulphur are arranged through the thick- ness of the plate with perfect similarity, while the manganese is disposed with less order. Patent Fuel for Blast Furnaces, M. Escalle, director of the works at Tamaris, sends to the Revue Industrielle the following particulars in regard to the em- ployment of blocks of compressed coal in lieu of coke for blast furnaces. With the ores of the country (which are argilo-silicious and small) the quantity of compressed fuel employed is 20 per cent., but with those of Motka or Pilhals it reaches regularly 30 per cent. It has been found that by the use of these blocks a much higher temperature of hot blast is obtained, and that the propor tion of combustible consumed—coke and compressed coal included—per ton of pig iron produced is less than with coke alone. M. Escalle attributes this result to the quan- tity of water (114 per cent) contained in the compressed coal blocks used by him, as well as to the nature of the volatile matters. These blocks have given on analysis the following results : . By By volume. weizht. COs... ree ¥ . 26 5.17 oO ava Cee 15,88 CO ; . 3.5 4.43 Re Fs area ont a ewee at era 4 10.14 ae re 8.8 63 2.2 1.82 N ame 2.53 The volume of gas obtained per ton of the compressed fuel was 7620 cubic feet. Plant and Processes, A bucket for unloading and dumping ore and by coal has been patented by A. N. Sim- merly, of Cleveland, Ohio. The bucket ismade with a bottom which is highest on top, and inclines from a central line to the right and left. Two doors having hinges on their upper edges are secured to the bucket. Each door is connected to a curved link which extends into the bucket and is swiveled to a cross bar which may be oscillated by a rock-shaft. When the doors are closed the two links pass each other. In this position they automatically hold the doors in place without any catches or additional locking de- vices. The greater the pressure upon the doors the more firmly will they become locked. As soon as the rock-shaft is turned