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or more holes in the bottom. It is used to feed molten metal into an ingot mould to avoid splashing and give a smoother flow. The tundish allows a reservoir...

warm mould or reheating furnace gives the ingot an even columnar structure running in the direction of cooling, whereas ingots cast in a cold mould have...

Ingots Oxhide ingots are heavy (20–30 kg) metal slabs, usually of copper but sometimes of tin, produced and widely distributed during the Mediterranean...

Dozzle. With a hot top only 1 to 2% of the ingot goes to waste, prior to its use, up to 25% of the ingot was wasted. The efficiency, or yield, of a casting...

Coke Plant 212 Ovens 971,000 Three Blast furnaces (1200t/day) 1,150,000 Ingot Mould Foundry 225-ton open hearth furnaces (9) 1,283,400 45-inch Blooming and...

copper and shirome. The resulting alloy was then allowed to rest in ingot moulds in heated water, before being shaped, and annealed at around 650 °C....

Tin ingot moulds outside a Cornish mine...

Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he also was a union steelworker in the ingot mould foundry at now-defunct Bethlehem Steel and a professional musician. He...

almost pure tin. They were created using a mould in earth or sand, a method that dates to the Bronze Age. The ingots vary in size and weight; one of the largest...

disc-brooch of the Borre Style design, a bronze needle case, and a soapstone ingot-mould. The trades practised in the Viking period (10th–11th century) included...

clay cone or sleeve, heated white hot and inserted into the top of the ingot mould near the end of the pour, and then filled with molten steel. Its purpose...

will quietly solidify in the mould, with no gas bubbling out. It is marked with a "K" for identification purposes. For ingot casting, common deoxidizing...

Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes More images Dowlais Ironworks memorial Dowlais 1987 Ingot mould Cast iron...

added a new larger open hearth steel furnace that produced larger steel ingots to suit the new 27-inch mill. To match the increased production, more coke...

hollow recess into which the molten tin was poured to be cast into ingots. The moulds vary in size and shape, the largest known from Dartmoor being that...

when casting coinage from aluminium bronze. The grain macrostructure in ingots and most castings have three distinct regions or zones: the chill zone,...

galley. In the most simplistic way, the mould is a square pipe, with a conic funnel at its bottom. In detail, the mould does quite a lot more than just being...

such as a bowl. Mould slumping begins with a sheet of flat glass placed above a ceramic mould. When heated, the glass slumps into the mould under its own...

six preheated one-ton ingot moulds. After cooling, the ingot moulds were stripped of the still hot ingots and taken to the ingot yard. In the 1950s the...

metal, cast from a papier-mâché or plaster mould taken from the surface of a forme of type.: stereotype  The mould was known as a flong. In the days of set...