These large charges are puddled by two gangs of four men each, and a great saving in fuel and labour is effected.
The inferiority of the puddled iron is well understood in England, and therefore when it is to be used for chain cables and anchors, it is again heated, and rolled a third time, its price will be then raised to 10l.
This is as cheap as merchantable English puddlediron can be imported, paying 25 per cent.
A forge for manufacturing puddled iron cannot be profitable unless its machinery be kept in regular employ, for the cost of that will be the same in all cases.
It is sometimes useful to start the pot again to round up the puddled ball, but it is best if this has been formed with the rabble.
If things have gone well the balls ought to come out soft at a welding heat, filled with cinder like puddled balls, but a little more resisting and solid under the hammer.
A clay subsoil is puddled by being plowed over when too wet, and the injury is of considerable duration.
Puddled clay remains impervious as long as it is saturated with water, and it does not entirely lose this quality until it has been pulverized in a dry state.
Undisturbed by the camels they ranged in search of green food, and drank of the water remaining in the puddledtroughs as though indifferent to the proximity of the sleeping men.
It is possible to set plants in quite dry soil, provided the roots arepuddled and the earth well packed about them.
If the roots of sweet potato plants are carefully puddled without the mixture coming in contact with the tops, they will keep in good condition for a week or ten days.
Muck iron, crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers.
Puddled steel, steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of the puddling process.
Shingling hammer, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron.
Defn: A compound of iron, such as puddled steel, made without complete fusion.
Shingling mill, a mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled.
If the cisterns were not covered, as much water might be lost by evaporation as would be used by the inhabitants, so that at its best a clay-puddled cistern must have been an unsatisfactory affair.
No doubt in some localities where clay was plentiful the cisterns were scooped out of the earth and puddled with clay, just as many reservoirs of to-day are made.
The highways, over flats but little above tide-water, were saturated by the spring rains, cut into deep ruts by the haul of heavy trains, and puddled by the tramp of infantry and cavalry.
The consumption of pig iron per ton of puddled bar was rather less than 21½ cwts.
This iron is puddled in modified rotating Danks furnaces containing a charge of a ton each.
There has been no striking improvement in the manufacture of puddled iron, partly on account of the impression that it is doomed to be superseded by steel.
The consumption of coal per ton of ordinary puddled bar is under 11 cwt.
I cannot give very accurate figures, as the statistics of some countries are incomplete, while in others the output of puddled bar only, and not that of finished iron, has been ascertained.
When they have finished the job of piling, the trench'll be filled chuck up with a puddledcore of clay that'll act like a sheet anchor.
No doubt that puddled core will help to hold the huge mass of earth that we're going to dump around it.
Land which has been puddled by the tread of cattle, or by wheels, acquires a peculiar consistency, and a singular capacity to hold water.
These wells are liable, too, to be obstructed in their operation by their bottoms being puddled with the clay carried into them by the water, and so becoming impervious.
He couldn't boil his joint for dinner in coco-nut or skull; he had to do it with stone pot-boilers, in a rude kettle of puddled clay.
Then he dug a big hole in the soft mud close to the water's edge, and let the water (rather muddy) percolate into it, or sometimes even he plastered over its bottom with puddled clay.
He puddled his own soul till the metal was pure, and that's how he got the Iron Will that was strong enough to save a nation.
It puddled the pig-iron until the dross was out, and the pure metal was bessemered into steel.
We learned the trick by doing it, standing with our faces in the scorching heat while our hands puddled the metal in its glaring bath.
I had to scoop the stuff outer holes in the wet floor o' the drive where I'd puddled it away in the mud.
What is termed puddled steel is liable to the same objection, and probably, from its mode of manufacture, in a still greater degree.
Another dawn upon the same dead calm, rising like a conflagration through the puddled air, cloudless, hopeless!
The resulting puddled iron, also known as wrought iron, is very low in carbon; it is tough, and on being broken appears to be made up of a bundle of long fibers.
We puddled the mud and got the black gins to tramp it down, adding a picaninny to their backs to increase their weight.
As I puddled the wash-dirt he cradled it, and consequently was in possession of the gold bag which held the proceeds from the cradle.
Then he worked up the clay with water, going through the process of puddling in miniature, again made a trough of the puddled clay, filled it with water, and showed that it was water-tight.
The water was confined within a puddled channel, to prevent leakage, and the work is at this day as sound as it was when first constructed.
Keep the sand and puddled clay moist; do not allow the clay to crack, which it will do if it dries.
Corn planted in puddled clay in tumbler A could not get sufficent air for sprouting.
Capillary water may sometimes completely fill the spaces between the soil particles; when this occurs the roots are drowned just as in the case of free water as we saw when cuttings were placed in the puddled clay (see Fig.
These shingled blooms still contain enough heat to enable them to be rolled into rough puddled bars.
The puddled bars are cut into pieces which are piled together, reheated, and again rolled into bars, which are called merchant bars.
These puddled bars are of very inferior quality, having less than half the strength of good wrought iron.
It may be if properly handled, but great care has to be taken that it is thoroughly puddled or it melts away and your work has been for naught.
It was evident that the increased pressure of the puddled earth was the chief cause of such failures: I therefore had recourse to the following scheme in order to a void using it.
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