The Iron Age 1885-05-21: Vol 35 Iss 21

\ND The [ron Age INDEX TO gEADING MATTER A PAGE 34, Vol. XX XV: No, 21. ——— 4 New Regenerative Hot-Blast Oven.* y JOHN LONG, E. M., MECHANICSBURGH, PA. fhe advantages of fire-brick regenerative blast ovens being thoroughly appreciated hy those engaged in modern blast-furnace vractice, the important question now is to shtain the best and most efficient apparatus. fhe apparatus invented by the writer, and iescribed in this paper, is proposed as an improved form, retaining all the advantages f those now in use, with the additional ones f a cheaper construction and of being able furnish a very much hotter blast and to -ary and control the temperature thereof up the limit of the resistance of the refrac- tory materials composing the ovens. To the vractical blast-furnace manager the ability ‘0 control perfectly the temperature of the blast, so that an error of filling or a varia- tion in the calorific power of the fuel may corrected by suddenly and markedly hanging the temperature of the blast, is a vreat desideratum. By this means the work- vy of the furnace can be rendered much more economical and certain, and the grade fthe iron more uniform, than by waiting to correct the furnace by a change of bur- len. This object is sought to be accom- plished with the iron-pipe ovens and the re- venerative brick ovens now in use, by keep- ng the temperature of the blast somewhat below the maximum ; but, asthe range of variation is only slight and the temperature mparatively low, the resultant benefit is consequently small. With the apparatus de- scribed in this paper, the blast may be regu- larly kept much hotter, and yet its temper- ature may be at any moment quickly and greatly raised. Heretofore it has been customary to heat regenerative ovens by burning in them blast- furnace gas the initial temperature of which is that which it had when leaving the tun- nel-head less what it has lost in its trans- mission to the oven in which it is burned. This temperature varies from 100° for char- mal and 228° C. for coke (according to Kerl) upward, being lower as the furnace is economical of fuel. At the Mont Alto, Pa., | Charcoal Furnace, which I have per- sonally managed for the last three blasts, the gas temperature ran very low. During the last two months November and December) of the blast of 1884 the gas temperature and pressure were taken every hour, and the former averaged for this time, including the last half-day blowing ut, 218° F,, or, excluding the blow- ing out, 210° F. For the 8 days from November 20 to 28, 1884, it averaged mly 117° F. So cool was the gas that the | vapor of water in it was condensed in the gas flue and dropped out at quite a ively rate at the expansion joint, not more | than 8 feet from the furnace. The tempera- | tures were taken from a pyrometer kept in | the gas flue, and frequently by the writer, | with a mercury thermometer heldin the gas | 4 ie. Since the cooler the gases can be made to | eave the blast furnace the better and more | economically the furnace works, the ten- | lency of modern practice is to reduce the | temperature of the waste gases as much as | possible, and thus have the furnaces work | with ‘cool tops.” As a consequence of working cool at the top less of the carbonic acid formed in the lower part of the furnace is reduced to carbonic oxide in the upper part at the expense of the fuel charged ; and hence the escaping gas has less heating power, since it contains a greater proportion f nitrogen and carbonic acid, the heat-ab- | sorbing elements, and asmaller proportion of ‘arbonic oxide, the principal heat- producer. | This decrease in the calorific power of the blast-furnace gas was very markedly shown | at the Mont Alto Furnace during the last last. When the furnace was carrying a burden of 2000 to 2100 pounds of ore and 500 25 pounds of limestone, on 720 pounds of harcoal, it was with the greatest difficulty that steam could be kept up and the blast vated to 550° to 600° as by means of the sas, while with a lighter burden there was ‘surplus of gas, the quantity of blast en- tering the furnace being the same in both uses; bence, if an intensely hot blast is to ipplied to an economically-working fur- ace, means must be taken to heat the gas, the subsequent combustion of which is to it the blast ovens. ithe regenerative hot-blast ovens now | ise the air for burning the gas is either yed at atmospheric temperature or is ed by being caused to fl»w through pas- es in the walls of the combustion cham- mmediately surrounding the flame ; but is evident that no advantage is gained mthe latter arrangement, since the heat ‘tthe air for combustion carries to the me has been taken from the flame by the | ‘als through which it passes, and hence © is no increase in either temperature or | tity of heat, whereas, by burning the | bly-heated gas with hichly heated air! | hot-blast main, or partsin free communication “hich has been heated otherwise than by *®oven in which it produces combustion, heat which this air carries is added to| | combustion. arried in and produced by the combus- f the highly-heated gas, and a great rease of temperature is produced over 4t resulting from the combustion of cool * With cool air, or c ol gas burned with air ‘ated in the oven in which it produces com- SiON "A paper read before the American Institute of * Engineers Gas Main Review of the The apparatus proposed to secure these results consists in three of the regenerative hot ovens, arranged, asin Fig. 1, along hot and cold gas and air mains, so connected that each oven can be used as desired, either for heating the blast or for heating the com- bustible gas after it has left the blast fur- nace and prior to its being burned to heat the apparatus. Since the oven which is heating the blast will, after it has parted with all the heat which is effective to pro- duce a blast of the desired temperature, yet contain a vast amount of heat, but of alower temperature, the blast oven can be used, with- , Chimney ~~ Flue Cold Blast 1.—Plan, Fig. THE out being specially heated therefor, to heat the combustible gas to nearly the temperature of the blast, because the quantity of gas is much less than that of the blast and the specific beat is about the same, while the heat-absorbing power is greater. The air for combustion is either used at the atmos- pheric temperature or it is taken from the with it, so that this hot air is heated other- wise than by the oven in which it produces Thus we command the advan- tage of heating the apparatus by means of | highly-heated gas burned with air at atmos- pheric temperature, or highly -heated air, and | thereby producing a most intense tempera- ture and greatly increasing the efficiency of the apparatus. For, as the rate of cooling of |'a heated body increases in a geometrical | ratio when the temperature increases in an Hardware, Iron — New ‘York, Thursday, May 21 arithmetical ratio, it follows that an oven will become much more highly and quickly heated by this intensely hot flame than if the same quantity of heat were produced at a lower temperature by burning cool gas with cool air or air heated by the oven in which it produces combustion. And _ the time required to heat the oven will become so much shortened that the time required for the blast oven to part with its effective heat will be sufficient to heat the oven in which the gas is being burned. Referring to the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a plan of three ovens and connec | : HARE HY POOCd Arersy POSS eae! PAObE Rape Peeed GOODS BOGOE x eed POraS OOedO OPObd AE POOLS PAD PObbS baad 3 Biast Main Hot “a : ge. HOT-BLAST Fig. LONG REGENERATIVE tions ; Fig. 2 is a vertical section ; Fig, 3 is a horizontal section on line Z Z’, Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a vertical section through combustion chambers and Fig. 5 is a plan of three of the ovens now in use, showing the method of altering the apparatus to my system. The oven is rectangular in shape, having curved supporting walls, A, of slag, red brick or sand, as in Fig. 3, and incased in sheet iron. It is divided transversely into combustion chamber and regenerator, and longitudinally by the roof-supporting walls E, Fig. 3, into independent compartments, through both combustion chamber and regenerator, so that the preducts of combustion and blast must flow through the ovens in separate and equal currents, In the circular ovens as they are now used there are no independent com- partments, and the products of combustion take the most direct course through the oven, and Metal Trad IS85. ~ and most highly heat the middle, while the | blast, owing to the greater resistance to its flow in the hotter part, takes the cooler sides of the oven. Thus the oven is not operated to the best advantage. The flues in the regenerator portion of the compartments are arranged, as in Fig. 2, in sets forming a decreasing series from the combustion chamber, so that, as the products of combustion impart their heat, become cooler and contract, the areas of the flues and heat-absorbing materials decrease, and, conversely, when heating the blast the area of the flues and heat-imparting materials in & XxX T ) NC +c 4 ERT A NT eS, - 4 >EMEN > PAGE $4.50 a Year, Including Lostage. Single Copies, Ten Cents, formed of flat-arch blocks, R, resting on the walls E and covered by strips of sheet iron, as shown in Figs. r and 2. The walls are formed of ordinary 9-inch fire-brick or simi- larly shaped blocks laid diagonally in reverse directions in adjacent courses, as shown in Fig. 3, thus providing for expansion and contraction, as the bricks are free to expand into the flues and cannot transfer their lin ear expansions to the sides of the oven (as in walls of the ordinary construction) while the lateral expansion has a tendency only to turn the bricks toa greaterangle. Moreover, by this construction the heating surface is | made nearly one-half greater than for a simi- 4.—Section Through Com- | bustion Chambers. Fig. 5.—Plan for Altering. OVEN. creases as the blast becomes heated and ex pands. As the rate of expansion and con traction of all gases is the same as that of | air, the velocity is thus kept uniform throughout the oven and the friction decreased, both when heating the blast or gas and when heating the oven. This ar- rangement of the flues is an important mat ter, as air or gas expands or contracts ;}, of its volume at 32° F. for each deyvree F. the temperature is raised or lowered, so that the volume of a given weight of air at 579 F is double, at 1098” F. three times, at 1617° F. four times, and at 2136° F. five times what it is at 60° F. The compartments are either double, and each has separate gas, blast and | chimney connections, so that it shall become equally heated and shall have an equa! quan tity of blast or gas to heat. The roof is‘ single or | and into the hot-blast main, ' air, and lar wall having a plane surface. The wall is also much stronger than when laid in the ordinary manner, and hence can be made much lighter. As the depth to which the heat penetrates and is given off is supposed to be from 1'% to 2 inches, the whole of the material of the bricks can by this construc tion be made effective for absorbing and giv ing out heat. Hence a much smaller oven can do more work than a large one with plain walls The air for combustion is either admitted at atmospheric temperature by means of valves, C, oris taken from the hot-blast main H, or parts in free communication with it by means of valves, F, and is introduced through pipes, P, Fig. 2, into the air-cyl- inder O, having holes so arranged that the air jets shall be perfectly distributed through the gas. The valves used are positive-motion seat-valves, having a con- tinuous coil of pipe through them, so that by increasing the pressure of the water or pass ing a jet of steam through them any sediment may be readily removed. The seats are similarly provided and firmly fastened to the valve casing to keep them properly in place. The method of working a plant consisting of three of the above-described ovens (as in Fig. 1) which are used for heating the blast and preheating the combustible gas, without being themselves heated specially for the latter purpose, and in which the gas is burned with hot air, is as follows: All valves being closed, open in oven I (Fig. 1) the cold- blast valve D, then open the hot-blast valve S, thus having blast pass through the oven Then open in oven K the cold-gas valve U, and then open the gas-valve T, sothat gas will pass through the oven and into the hot-gas main formed | by closing the valve W between the ovens and the blast-furnace. (When W is open this main can be used as ordinary gas-main to supply the ovens with gas directly from the blast-furnace.) Then open in oven L first the chimney-valve M, next the gas- valve T, toadmit the gas to be burned, then the hot-air-supply valve F, to furnish air for combustion, and ignite the gas through the eye-hole or dust door. After a suitable in- terval the apparatus is reversed, always commencing with the oven which is being heated by putting it on blast, then put the oven which had been on blast to heating gas, and put the oven which is heating gas to being heated by burning gas. Thus, in oven L, which is being heated, close the gas-valve T and air-valve F and then close the chim- ney-valve Mand open the cold-blast valve D | and hot-blast valve 5, and have hot-blast pass into the hot-blast main and to the furnace. Then in oven I (on blast) close the hot-blast valve S and cold-blast valve D, and open the air-escape V (or the cold-air valve C, ' which can also be used for this purpose) to allow the compressed air to pass out, after which it is closed again. Then open the chimney-valve M and the gas-valve T, and, after a sufficient interval to allow the air in the oven to pass into the chimney and the oven to be filled with gas (in order to avoid | the danger of an explosion from a mixture of air and gas in the oven and hot-gas main), close the chimney-valve M and open the cold-gas valve U, and let hot gas pass into the hot-gas main. Then in oven K (on gas) close the cold-gas valve U and open the chimney-valve M and the air-valve F to supply hot air for combustion. After the oven which is heating the blast has parted with its effective heat or the oven which is being heated has become sufficiently hot the apparatus is again reversed in the manner and with the precautions above described. After the first reversal the apparatus is | heated by burning cold gas with hot air, and, | hence, in an equal interval the oven which | is being heated will become several hundred degrees hotter than did the oven which was first heated by burning cold gas with cold after the second reversal will fur nish a blast several hundred degrees hotter than before, while the oven through which the gass is passing will beat it several hun dred degrees hotter than it was when it came to the apparatus and the oven which is being heated by burning this heated gas with hotter air will in an equal interval become hotter than before and after rever- sal will furnish still hotter blast to the fur nace and for the combustion of still hotter gas, thus developing after each reversal a higher temperature of blast, provided the quantity of blast and gas are properly pro portioned to the apparatus The regenerative hot-blast apparatus now altered to this improved for a plant of a valve in use can be readily system, as is shown in Fig. 5 three Whitwell putting W, in the vas-main between the ovens and the blast-furnace, thus forming a hot-vas main of the portion cut off, and also placing at the cool or chimney side of the ovens a ovens by (Concluded on page 5.) »~ x x . = > : ,e cr : Q THE IRON AGE. 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Agricultural Implement CAF Makers, Plow Manufacturers, Carriage ae oe and Wagon Makers, Hoe, Rake, Fork, DEWITT WIRE CLOTH C0, Serine Axe. Aste,” Machinery, Special P Steel Manufacturers and Dealers can here have their wants promptly and satisfactorily supplied. Of Every Description, rmining purposes. Ali meshes from 2 to the inch up to r.o-mesh made and carried in stock. W.S. TYLER, Pres. E. H. ALLEN, Sec. & Treas. CLeVELAND, OHIO. te Y ES a 3 GY /TTENBERG ¢ SORB, eT" r WIRE, WIRE CLOTH, WIRE ROPE, Counter Railings, Window Guards, Iron and Wire Fences, _ Plain and Barbed Fencing Wire, National Wire and Iron Co. 87 Chambers St., 703 Market St., NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, MANUFACTURERS Brass and Copper Wire, WIRE CLOTH of every description, Send for Catalogue. DETROIT, morscwamsce §=€ MICH. Iron Stairs, Railings, Illuminated Sidewalk Tile, Shutters, Guards FOUNDRY SUPPLIES. THOMPSON McCOSH, President. BARB WIRE “carrer. New York Office, . ' . Philadelphia Office, Double Selvage, Painted Wire Window Cloth.) 04 peane srt. 523 ARCH ST. JOHN A, McCOSH, Sec. and Treas, Chicago Office, 202 First Nat. Bank Building. WIRE NETTING FOR FENCING, ‘No. 111.) POULTRY YARDS, &c., J. A, EMERICK. Wire Rope for Mines, Elevators, Cables and HOWARD EVANS Transmission of Power, NO DANGER OF CUT TING HANDS OR TEAR- ING CLOTHES. SAVES THE PRICE OF THE LIFTER MANY TIMES EVERY DAY. WIRE CORDS FOR PICTURES WINDOW SASHES, &c., &c. i Davey Safety Engine MOLDERS’ TOOLS, FOUNDRY FACING, MOLDING SAND, FOUNDRY SUPPLIES. J.A. EMERICK & CO., 1056 to 1076 Beach St., PHILADELPHIA, Manufactured oy ‘k19yRAIQ 401 Solely by - [PATENTED.] Hawkeye SteeliBarb Fence Co., Burlington, lowa. Our Agents, John H. Graham & Co.,113,Chambers St.. carry stock of our;Lifters. and will supply at Factory prices, N UR A NCS are worth two of any other k 1 this * patternfof Composite Wrought tron, Rai at the rate’of $1.50 per, lineal foot 3 f® hi zh! Chilled Iron Ornaments are poured on to the Wrough Iron Rods welding the panel into one piece’without joints or crevices for rust to enter’. It is made to set ) | xD es | ti RN<) > ng VYUINY NW | tililaeaies | The above cut represents Preston's Patent Braided Cable Wire Fence Rail, manufactured by the aoe HOLLOW CABLE MPG. CO., Hornelisville, N. ¥Y. We also manufacture extensively Eetab’d 1616, Incorp'd 1874. four different sizes Wire Clothes Lines. Send for Circulars and Price Lists. Gilbert & rae Mic, Co C. 8. CHAMBERLAIN 55 Dearborn St., Chicago, III. WAREHOUSES: 42 CLIFF ST., NEW YORK, 228 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, ILLS., MANUFACTURERS OF THE BILLINGS & SPENCER Co. HARTFORD ——@ Beli j lron& Galvanized Wire| BANU Newti-la-t-mels 3 lela Me Vato Te Sleves and Wire Cloth. o es Power Loom Painted and Galvan ae SIZ =) Oem aie G4 Cortlandt St., New York. PATENT OFFICE. ——— ROEDER & BRIESEN, 82 and 84 Nassau Street, 5 csasleiaaeea tinea NEW YORK. | J. W. ized Window Screen Wire Cioth o} ES 4 ray oe) 2 iy le Galvanized Wire Cloth for Drying , THREADS FROM ic OF AN INCH Fruits, Warld’s Galvanized Wen em Wire Fence, Galvanized Twist FX eee y Wire Poultry Netting. Factorics, Georgetown, Conn, ewes 6 SB ated wal? nano WHITWORTH THREAD. PA XS N & CO... vi ALERS IN oo MOULDING SAND, 1021 North Delaware Ave., Philadelphia, Pa., TO 2 INCHES V U.S. STANDARD AND OF BAR STEEL. AMERICAN AND FOREIGN PATENTS icited promptly and at the lowest rates. WILLIAM MANN, JR., &CO. LEWISTOWN, PA. DROP FORGED < we NEW HAVEN NUT CO., «cago ey MANUFACTURERS OF HOT-PRESSED NUTS AND WASHERS. | See Iron Age First Issue Each Month, Kl WESTVILLE, CONN. . | WICKWIRE BROTHERS, CORTLAND. N. Y., Wire CLorH AND WERE Goons, a Dish Covers, Corn Poppers, Coal Sieves, Flour Sieves, Etc., Etc. Wh it MANUFACTURERS OF RED WARRIOFR AXES, BROAD AXES, Adzes, Broad Hatchets, | XxX MINERAL, SPANISH AXES AND TOOLS, |IXL_ FACING, | TexB ATLANTA ENGINEERING CO., **CORTLAND” W ii SC R KE N WIRE CLOTH. MANUFACTURERS CHARCOAL FACING, ANTHRACITE FACING, SOAPSTONE, LEAD FACING, RIDDLES, SHOVELS, STEEL BRUSHES. BRANCH OFFICE: ers St., New York., E. A. Bolmes, Manager, | Engineers and Contractors for Steam Machinery. Atianta, Ga, Metallic Coal Sieve, z ae 7S aa / a a Fr “”m i OGDEN & WALLACE, 85,87, 89 & 91 Elm St., New York. Iron > Steel Of every description kept in stock. Agents for Park, Brother & Co.'s BLACK DIAMOND STEEL. All sizes of Cast and Machinery Steel con stantly on hand. PIERSON & CO., ESTABLISHED 1790, 24 to 27 West St., cor. Morris, NEW YORK CITY. ULSTER IRON. All Sizes and Shapes Kept in Stock. ABEEL BROS., IRON MERCHANTS, 190 SOUTH 8T., 5 ‘ 365 WATER 8T,, {NEW YORE “AR. M.CO.” SHAFTING. ALSO GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF ‘ NORWAY,” “ULSTER,” “ CATASAUQUA,” REFINED AND COMMON IRON, BAND, HOOP AND SCROLL IRON. STEEL OF ALL KINDS. TELEPHONE CALL, “* NASSAU, 379.” A. R. WHITNEY & C0., MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IB Iron and Steel AGENCIES: PORTAGE TRON CO., Limited, Merehant Lron and Soft Steel. NORWAY STEEL & IRON CO., Homogeneous Steel Plates BAY STATE IRON CO., Tank, Boiler and Girder Plates. - BRANDYWINE ROLLING MILL. Boiler Plates. 3LASGOW TUBE WORKS. Boiler Flues. A. M. BYERS & CO., Wrought Iron Pipe. CARNEGIE BROS. & CO., Limited, Iron and Steel Beams, Channels, Shapes and Shafting. H. P. NAIL CO 'S Steel Wire Nails. THE CHESTER PIPE AND TUBE CO. Plans and estimates furnished and contracts made for erecting Lron Structures of every descrip- tion. Books containing cuts of all iron made sent on application by mail. Sample pieces at office. Please address 68 Hudson St. ~ Borven & LovELL, Commission Merchants, 70 & 71 West St., GA.GREENE, ( —_ NEW YORK, LEENK, H. L. FREELAND. ‘ AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF Fall River Iron Co.'s Nails, Bands, Hoops and Rods, AND Borden Mining Company's CUMBERLAND COALS. VOUGHT & WILLIAMS, DEALEKS IN Machinery, and Tire Spring AGENTS FOR HELLER BROS.’ CLAY CRUCIBLE CAST STEEL. 288 Greenwich St., New York. IMPORTED & AMERICAN PIG IRON. LAKE SUPERIOR CHARCOAL IRON, | For Malleable and Car-Wheel Purposes, A SPECIALTY. CHARLES HIMROD & CO., | CHICAGO AND DETROIT. Manufacture and ROLLED Channels, Forgings, 1 Room 45, Astor House, New CUT NAILS. Hot Pressed Nuts, Bolts, Washers, &c, IRON DOVER BOILER Boiler Brace Jaws, FULLER BROTHERS & CoO., 139 Greenwich Street, New York. New York. PASSAIC ROLLING MILL CO. IRON BEAMS, ingles, Tees, Merchant Bars, Riveted Work, PATERSON, N. J. TH E Marshall Lefferts & Co., Galvanized Sheet Iron, Best Bloom, Best Refined and Common. | Galvanized Wire, Telegraph and Fence ; Galvanized | Hoop and Band Iron, Galvanized Rod and Bar Iron, Galvanized Nails, Galvanized Chain, Galvanized Iron Pipe. CORRUGATED SHEET IRON For Roofing, &¢,, Galvanized, Plain or Painted. Best Charcoal, Best Refined and Common SHEET IRON. PLATE AND Tank IRON, . No.1, C. H. No. 1, C.H. No.1 Flange, Best Flange, Best Flange Fire Box, Circles. ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF IRON WORK GALVANIZED OR TINNED TO ORDER. Price list and quotations sent upon application. FOX & DRUMMOND, CAST IRON GA3 AND WATER PIPE 2 TO 48 INCHES DIAMETER. 160 Broadway, New York. JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO., SCOTCH AND AMERICAN PIG IRON, No. 63 Wall St., New York. DANIEL F. COONEY, 88 Washington St., N. ¥. BOILER PLATES AND SHEET IRON, LAP-WELDED BOILER FLUES, Boiler Rivets, Angle & T Iron, Cut Nails & Spikes Agency for Glasgow Iron Co., Joseph L. Bailey & Co. Pine Lron Works, Lebanon Rolling Mills, Allison | Boller Flue, Albany & Rens. Iron and Steel Co.’s cele- brated Boller Rivets; Homogeneous Sreel, Boiler and Fire Box Plates. B. F. JUDSON, Importer of and Dealer in SCOTCH AND AMERICAN | Wr-.ught & Cast Scrap Iron, OLD METALS. 3534335 soucn ses} NEW YORK. CAST STEEL FIELD HOES IN STOCK AT VERY LOW RATES. | JOHN BROWER, Sl Murray st. Cwas. Fo $L Augusta. 6a. A o_— = sy WM. McFARLAND, lron and Brass Founder. TRENTON, N. J. Chilled Cast Wire Dies a Specialty. Any size or style made at short notice. “PLAIN WORDS ABOUT PATENTS Free to Inventors and Manufacturers. E. B. STOCK | ING, Atty., Washington, D. C. Please mention this Paper. | (Raised Letter Tool.) | THOMAS J. ANDRESS, Manufacturer of Class Cutters, S21 Cherry Street, PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Every Andress Too! Warranted. have always in stock Eye Bars, &c., York. *ek™ RIVETs, Socket Bolts, &c. Pig Iron, Cast Iron Pipe LAMP POSTS, VALVES, ETC. Iron Foundry and Machine Shop. __Fetteville, Sehuyikil) Oc., Pa. LRON AGE. May;21, 188: JAMES P. WITHEROW. Successor to WITHEROW & GORDON Engineer & Contractor. PITTSBURGH, PA, Agent for the WHITWELL OXFORD. 0. woop & co., La, IRON AND NAILCO., | a ego Cut Nails SPIKES. HOT BLAST STOVES OVER 600 IN USE. J. 8. SCRANTON, Sales Agent, 81, 83 and 85 Washington Street, NEW YORK. The following parties either have them In usé¢ under cop-truction : Cedar Point Iron Co., N. ¥ Dunbar Furnace Co., Pa. Crane [ron Co., Pa. Pennsylvania Steel Co., Pa. Neshannock Iron Co., Pa. R. H. Coleman, Lebanon. Pa, Chester Rolling Mill Co., Pa. Davenport, Fairbairn & Co., Pa Isabella Furnace Co., Pa. Paxton Furnaces, Pa. MANUFACTURERS OF PATENT Planished Sheet Iron. Patented April 8th, 1873 ; Sept. oth, 1873 ; Oct. JOHN J. HARRISON IRON AND METAL DEALER, 4, 30 CHERRY ST. 6th, 1874; Jan. 1, 1876 ; Oct, 17th, 1876; Jan. 11th, 1877; Feb. 6th, 1877; Dec. roth, 1878; Jan. roth, 1882 ; Jan. 1st. 1884 : Feb. 12th. 1884 8 March 4th, 1884 ; Jan. 6th, 1885. 558, 560, 562 WATER ST. & 302, 3 h ! ! 1 haste : th following : Guaranteed full Spearman pon Se. F a. 1as on hand, and offers for sale, the follow . arantee u“ equal Etna Iron Works, Ohio. Scotch and American ra! Fon, Ww rought, oat and yeq tn all respects to the Miltne Onal and tron (o., Obi. Machinery Scrap lron, Car Wheels, Axles anc eavy saahenias aoe Winona Furnace Co., Ohio. Wroueh trou malco. did Copper. Composition, Brass | IMPORTED RUSSIA IRON, | Moss'Marshall, ohio. Lead, Pewter, Zine, &c. wee A. Campbell & Sons, Ohio. Hocking Valley [ron Co., Ohio. Cleveland Rolling Mill Co,, Uble Meier [ron Co., Il). North Chicago Steel Co., Il. and at a less price. BURDEN’S HORSE SHOES. “Burden Best” ALSO ' r ; Union Iron and Stee) Co., IIL Common, Refined, Charcoal and Juniata Means & Culbertson, Ky. Ashland Furnace Co., by. GRADES OF Norton [ron Co., Ky. Southern States C.,. lL. and 8. Co., tenn Sewanee Furnace Co., Tenn. James C. Warner, Rising Fawn, Ga, Ohio [ren Co., Zanesville. O, Sloss Furnace Co., Ala. WHEELING NAILS. Laughlin Nail Co., W. K. ROSS, SOLE ACENT, 97 Chambers Street, New York, Manhattan Rolling Mill. J. LEONARD, 445 to 451 West St, NEW YORK 177 & 179 Bank St,, MANUFACTURER OF HORSE SHOE IRON, Toe Calk Steel, Rods, Ovals, Half Ovals and Flats KEYSTONE ROLLING MILL, Limited, Manufacturers of IRON, Pittsburgh, Pa. Bonnell, Botsford & Co. IRON, NAILS AND SPIKES YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. JOHN CALDWELL, Treas. T. W. WELSH, Sup. W. W. CARD, Secy. BLACK SHEET IRON, Smooth on both sides. SYRACUSE. MALLEABLE IRON WwWoRKs, SYRACUSE, - nN. Y¥; Iron | Mower and Reap r Castings and Boiler Rivets. Carriage Irons a Specialty, W. PENNSYLVANIA IRON WORKS Everson, Hammond & Orr, Ltd., SECOND AVE., PITTSBURGH, PA., MANUFACTURERS OF Light Sheet Iron. ROOFING SHEET of all grades a specialty, B. BURNS, PROPRIETOR. THE BURDEN IRON CO. TROY, N. Y. ULSTER. AND BURDEN’S H. B. & S. Bar Iron. Also Best Grades of American & English Refined Iron. All sizes and shapes in stock. EGLESTON BROS, & CO.. $86 South St | NEW YORK CITY, "WILLIAM H. WALLACE & CO., Iron Merchants, Cor. ALBANY & WASH NGTON SIS., NEW YORK CITY. Prices quoted promptly upon application. CORRUGATED AND CRIMPED IRON ROOFING & SIDING, Iron Buildings, Roofs, Shutters, Doors, C ; 7 Skylights, Bridges, &c. a MOSELEY IRON BRIDGE AND ROOF co., 5 Dey Street, NEW YORK. GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, Jr., Prest H. H. WESTINGHOUSE, Gen’l Agt. TE BS — Westinghouse Air-Brake Co. PITTSBURGH, PA., U. S.A. MANUFACTURERS OF THE WESTINGHOUSE AUTOMATIC BRAKE, Westinghouse Locomotive Driver Brake, Vacuum Brakes (Westinghouse & Smith Patents), Wm. Bispham. E. C. Wallace. Win. H. Wallace, WESTINGHOUSE FREIGHT BRAKE. The Automatic Freight Brake is essentially the same apparatus as the Automatic Brake for passenger cars, queens that the various parts are so combined as to form practically one piece 0! mechanism, and is sold at a very low pores. The saving in accidents, flat wheels, brakemen’s wave: ard the inereased speed possible with perfect safety, will repay the cost of its application w a very short time. The * Automatic” has proved itself to be the most efficient Train and Safety Brake known application is instantaneous ; it can be operated from any car in the train if desired, and should train separate, or hose or pipe fail, it applies automatically. A GUARANTEE is given cust: against loss from 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 principal Railways in all parts of the world, FULL INFORMATION FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. LEECHBURG IRON WORKS. LIMITED KIRKPATRICK & CO., Manufacture of all Grades of FINE SHEEBT IRONS, (Refined, Cold Rolled, Show Card, Stamping, Tea Tray, Polished, Shovel, Ferrule Iron, &c.) NATURAL GAS USED AS FUEL. OFFICE, No, 143 First Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. CHAMPION v4 as. a BOLT & RIVET CLIPPERS. For cutting off the ends of Bolts and Rivets, on 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. eae D WO000 & C0. Manufacturers of WORKS, Leechburg, I'4. BROWN'S HOC AND PIC RINGER and RINGS Only single Ring the market that on the outside of nose. Nosharp| in the nose to k sore. Only double ring ever points in the nose. isthe begt. Use noother. FOR WATER AND GAS, MANUFACTURERS OF HOG RINCER RINGS and HOLDER, invented. The _caly c EAGLE BILL _ aie ‘ing that will effectu- ORN HUSKER P ae th ote g is the best Husker in the market. Farmers say it Ringers, 75c. Rings, soc. 100, Holders, 75c. Huskers, 1<¢. CHAMBERS, BERING & QUIN LAN, Exclusive Manufacturers, Decatur, ! i Joum J, BPOWERS, Peesadens. ALEXANDER BURNS, Manager. ‘ Wathow's Pate Ani-Frecsng Hyon, | EHLE JERSEY CITY GALVANIZING CO., 400 CHESTNUT STREET. . CALVANIZED MATERIAL OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. GALVANIZING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. Galvanized Sheet Iron—Best Bloom, Best Refined, Common. Galvanized Round, Square Band 40 Hoop Iron, &c., &c. VARIETY METAL BOOM. © STEAM HEATING BY DIRECT RADIATION in all ite Branches a Specialty. Brags and other All Gauges Metal Moulding, Casting and Finishing. Noiseless Vertical Engines, Hydrants, Fire Plugs, &c. and FRAS. B. BANNAN, Bizes of Bheets. Corrugated Sheet [ron a Specialty, Galvanised, Black and Pain Iron Trade. ty 5 one | ted. Corrugated for the WORKS, GREEN AND BAY STREETS, JERSEY CITY, W. J, OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE, 98 JOHN STREET NEW YORK, Orden 4| NE\ THE N MOSS | Also fo. Also So cent BLA Fire Gordon’ Paten tem TI Rails, B R ‘eneral Off << 12941818 ee IO ~ PAINTE OR GA LVANIZ —- 4 * Carry at al a NORT lror Light W. Co vr responds CO., IKES HH, Supt. U0. fer KE. rake for pier [ 8 wages mm will Owl pould ust« ON. iS. Ss, Cc.) TOs Pa, D PIC | RINGS p Ring 2 hat 9 Trade, w YORK, May 21, 1885. THE IRON AGE. mee eae, WILLIAM R. HART & CO.,! HENRY Levis & co., |Manufacturers’ Agents JUSTICE OOX, Jr. CHARLES K. BARNS JUSTICE COX, JR., & CO., EDWARD J. ETTING, IRON BROKER & COMMISSION MERCHANT, 7 - sTON | AMERICAN AND FOREIGN 222. S. Tarp St, PHILADELPHIA, PA. AGENTS POR PI ; CHICKIES, CONEWAGO, MONTGOMERY Asp | For Iron and Steel Rails, Car Wheels, Boiler G, BAR and RAILROAD IRON, ameamonal PIG IRON, SPIEGELEISEN, oF ck Ges ab le STEEL BLOOMS, CROP ENDS, | Railway Equipments. TIN PLATES, &c. (ld Rails, Axles and Wheels bought and sold, SXCLUCIVE AGEN? FOR \o, 224 SovrH Tuirp St., PHILADELPHIA. | 284 S. 4th St., Philadelphia. LYNCHBURG IRON COs ‘te LYNCHBURG, VA., H cavy Rails, Light Foundry and Forge Pig Iron. il Rai S; STORAGE, WHARF anv YARD, Delaware Avenue, I; il a Yr 4‘ st 7} 1nos v.evl Wars cls o¢ l ; =e STREET R A I LS. OLD RAILS, SCRAP, &c. Agent for the Mo r * fe ‘tan unt Savage Fire Brick. CARBON ROLLING MILL CO., Limited, Best Quality Muck Bar. CATASAUQUA MFG. CO,’S Shenandoah (Va.) Best Charcoal Blooms, CASH ADVANCES MADE ON IRON, moowraw (JEROME KEELEY & CO. LINDSAY, PARVIN & CO., #06 Wainut Place, Pritedsiphe SELLING AGENTS FOR Successors to Ltoyp & Linpsay, 828 Walnut Street, Iron 4 and Bridge Builders’ Materials, Stee] | 224 COKE. MUCK BARS. Handle Old Iron and Steel and Iron Shapes and Bars, Sheet Iron, Sheet Steel, | Ralls, Serap Iron &c. Examine and negotiate sales Pig Iron, Muck Bars, Plate Girders for Bridges and | °f 10" nd Coal properties, i ee a Buildings. Contracts placed for Iron Structures, | E. H. Wilson. A. Kaiser. J. B. M. Hirons, E. H. WILSON & CO., 2330 South Third Street, Philadelphia. BROKERS AND DEALERS IN Jas. G, Linpsay. ADDRESS BAR IRON, SHEET IRON, STEEL and IRON RAILS Cambria Iron Co., OFFICE, WORKS 218 South Fourth St., Johnstown, - Philadelphia, Pa. Pennsylvania. Ethelbert W atts. Jos. C. Poulterer, ETHELBERT, WATTS & CO, Iron Brokers and Commission Merchants, The Phcenix Iron Co., 410 WALNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA, Manufacturers 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. Correspondence solicited. Wrought Tron Roof Trusses, Girders and Joists, and all kinds of Iron Framing used in the con- struction of Fire-Proof Buildings : Patent Wrought Tron Columns, Weldless Eye Bars, and Built-up Shapes for Iron Bridges REFINED BAR, SHAFTING, and Every Variety of SHAPE IRON Made to Order. Plans and Specifications furnished. Address DAVID REEVES, President. New York Agents, MILLIKEN & SMITH, 95 Liberty St. Boston Agents, FRED. A. HOUDLETTE & CO., 19 Batterymarch St. ALAN WOOD & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF Patent Planished, Galvanized, Common, Best Refined, Cleaned and Charcoal Bloom PLATE: é& SHEET IRON, ALSO LIGHT PLATES AND SHEETS OF STEEL, No. 519 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Orders solicited especially for Corrugated, Gasholder, Pan and Elbow, Water Pipe, Smoke Stack, Tank and Boat Iron ; Last, Stamping, Ferrule, Locomotiye Headlight and Jacket Iron. WwW. H.WALBAUM & CO., 206 S. Fourth St., Philadelphia. 61 Pine St., New York, NEW AND OLD RAILS, BLOOMS, BESSEMER PIC, Crop Ends, Spiegeleisen, [ron Ores and Railroad Supplies Generally. AGENTS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTH LONSDADE IRON & STEEL CO., Limited, Bessemer Pig Iron, brand ‘ Ulverston ;” Malleable Iron, brand * U. H. M.”’ : MOSS BAY HEMATITE IRON & STEEL CO., Limited, Spiegeleisen, Crop Ends, &c. Also for ** Lorn”’ Malleable Charcoa! Pig Iron and N. B. ALLEN & CO.’'S Dinas Fire Bricks. Also Sole Agents for the WHITE RIVER MINING CO’S. Arkansas Manganese Ore, Guaranteed 50 per cent, Metallic Manganese. PENCOYD IRON WORKS. A. & P. ROBERTS « Co., MANUFACTURERS OF BEAMS, CHANNELS, DECK BEAMS, ANGLES, TEES, PLATES, MERCHANT BAR. SALE3 OFFICES New York Address, 14 CLIFF ST. REUBEN HAINES, CH EMIsT, 738 Sansom S8t., Philadeiphia. 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. | Sh TAYLOR-LANGDON GAS-ROASTED SALES AGFNTS FOR Dealers in Old Rails and Iron and Steel Serap of all L. & R. WISTER & Co., 20S South Fourth St., Philadelphia, IRON CO., Plates and Muck Bars ; SPRANG STEEL & AGENTS Shapes DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF SCRAP IRON. IRON COMMISSION MERCHANT, Iron . Steel and Nai Is. Agent for Brier Hilllron and Coal Co., Old Rails, Serap, &e. PHILA., PA, | PHIIA., PA. FOR BEST MILL PRODUCTS. inch), A. Whitney & Son’s standard test. J. J. MOHR, eridan, Leesport, Temple, Lvnch- Grades of Mill Iron. CHARCOAL PIC IRON, pees 4 aod Virginia Pig Iron, ‘*Corn- wall,’ ** Chester,’ and Other Iron Ores. a 3 ; Jd. W. HOFFMAN & UO., kinds. Corre spondence solicited, | N —————— ——__ -|IRON COMMISSION MERCHANTS, IRON COM SELLING AGENTS, MISSION MERCHANTS, PINE IRON WORKS, Pine Brand Plates; GLASGOW 230 So. 4th S8t., Philadelphia. IRON CO. (Limited), Siemens-Martin (0; en-Hearth) Steel, Universal and Sheared Plates, Angles and Kemble and Norway Foundry and Forge Pig Iron Wyebrooke ©, B, Ck soa) Pig chanan Red Short Pi — Pig Iron. Buchanan J N 0O. L. H oO G A N . Sai a, — 411 & 413 Walnut St., Philadelphia. MORRIS, WHEELER & CO.,|Pig Iron & Ores, Steel & Iron blooms, Youngstown Steel Co. Open Hearth Metal, WARENOUSE & oOFFices. Charcoal Lron, Connellsville Coke, 16th & Market Sts., | 400 Chestnut St.. oe ; ANDOVER PIG IRON, Andover Ohill Iron for Carwheels, &c. Each pig marked exact chill depth (% Inch to % F. A. Comiy, Treas. J. WESLEY PULLMAS, Agent. _ ‘340 So. 3d St... Philadelphia. 430 Walnut St,, PHILADELPHIA, PA, Sole Agent for burg, Millcreek and Mt, Laurel BESSEMER ORE, FOUNDRY and FORGE PIG IRON, Specially adapted to Soft Foundry or Highest J. WESLEY PULLMAN, Also 240 Se. 3d St., Philadelphia, WOODBRIDGE CLAY MINING COS FIRE BRICK. PLYMOUTH ROLLING MILL CO., onshgkocken. MANUFACTURERS OF Plate and Sheet Steel, Every description of Light Plates and Sheets of Steel. Plate and Sheet Iron, Best Bloom, Tube, Cleaned, Best Refined, Skelp, Blue Annealed and Common, Pig Lron, Foundry and Forge. Puddled Bars, Special for Axles, Best Neutral and Common. lol eee Cees TAM ADT 8 2 | nat &@~ Particular attention given to Iron for Special Purposes. TESTED CHAINS. BRADLEE & CO., EMPIRE CHAIN WORKS, No. 226 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. $16 Richmond B8t., - - - - PHILADELPHIA. Chains for Foundry Cranes and Slings. BLAST FURNACE CONSTRUCTION, iG. 0. oO anaes Oks STEEL WORKS CONSTRUCTION, |8teel and Iron Dredging, Slope and Mining Chains. -_— Ship’s Cables and Marine Railway Chains. CUMBERLAND NAIL AND IRON 6O., MANUFACTURERS OF “Cumberland” Nails and Wrought Iron Pipe, 43 North Water Street and 44 North Delaware Avenue, PHILADELPHIA. J. TATNALL LEA & CO.,, Successors to CABEEN & OO., IRON COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 4200 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 eg STANDARD Z Quality and efficiency fully guaranteed. Prices as low SHAFTING AND ROLLED OR HAMMERED AXLES OF 4RON OR STEEL. Office, No. 26 8. Fourth St., Philadelphia. Agents for the sale of Glamorgan Pig Iron. GORDON, STROBEL & LAUREAU, ENGINEERS, AGENCIES: Fire Brick Hot Blast Stove Co., Krupp Gas Producer, Terrenoire Steel Casting Process, Bell Bros.’ Coal Washing Machines, Krupp-Bell Dephosphorizing Process. SPECIALTIES: Gordon’s Patent Improved Whitwell-Cowper Fire-brick Stoves, Gordon’s Patent Stationary Converter, Laureau’s Pitless Converter-House Sys- tem, Bell Bros.’ Coal Washing Machines, Krupp Gas Producers, Regenerative Heating and Melting Furnaces, THE ALLENTOWN ROLLING MILLS, MANUFACIURERS OF Rails, Bars, Axles, Shafting, Fish Bars (Plain and Angle), Spikes, Rivets, Bolts and Nuts, &c. Bridges and Turn-Tables. veneral Office, 237 South Third St., Philadelphia. Works at Allentown, Pa. Hiiie.dmes KNISELY & MILLER, Sees MANUFACTURERS OF CORRUGATED IRON, _ —- oe - of the same quality. We manufacture Heavy and asaiaiel nn a sore, Driving and Car Axles, Crank Pins, Piston , Ke. OR OR ccsmameiiie a THE STANDARD STEEL WORKS, Works at LEWISTOWN, PA. Office: - - 2208. 4th 8t., Philadeiphia, Pa. BOOTH, CARRETT & BLAIR, ANALYTICAL AND CONSULTING CHEMISTS, 919 and 921 Chant St. 10th St. above Chestnut St.), Philadelphia, Pa. Established in 1836, Analyses of Ores, Waters, Metals and Alloys of all kinds. A special department for the ANALYSIS OF IRON AND STEEL, 1 with all the epeestine ale Cle iapces Re 2 moe and accurate enalyate of Wor. Creel, Iron Slags, Limestones, lays, Fire , &c. Agents tor sam ores ew York and Haltimere,' Price liste on application. . or THREE SIZES OF CORRUGATION. + © carry at all times a large stock from which we can fill orders promptly. Send for Catalogue and Prices nn Un EES NERN enenEpepetNEEENneempeemaammas etree ene NORTH BROTHERS,| lron Founders, Light Castings a Specialty. ‘. W. Cor. 23d and Race Streets, PHILADELPHIA. “rrespondence solicited. Established 1847. A. WHITNEY & SONS, | Car Wueet Works, rPHILADELPHIA, r Special Wheels for Furnace and Mine Cars, Foundry & Forg