>>> YOU ARE VIEWING A 200 LINE SAMPLE OF EBOOK# E07084 <<< TITLE: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO 360, NOV 25, 1882 AUTHOR: VARIOUS EBOOK: E07084 (O'Briens Book Cellar) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH [Illustration] SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 360 NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 25, 1882 Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XIV, No. 360. Scientific American established 1845 Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year. Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year. * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS.--Soaking Pits for Steel Ingots. --On the successful rolling of steel ingots with their own initial heat by means of the soaking pit process. By JOHN GJERS. 6 figures.--Gjers' soaking pits for steel ingots. Tempering by compression.--L. Clemandot's process. Economical Steam Power. By WILLIAM BARNET LE VAN. Mississippi River Improvements near St. Louis, Mo. Bunte's Burette for the Analysis of Furnace Gases. 2 figures. The "Universal" Gas Engine. 8 figures.--Improved gas engine. 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MISCELLANEOUS.--A Characteristic Mining "Rush."--The Prospective Mining Center of Southern New Mexico. The Food and Energy of Man. By Prof. DE CHAUMONT.--Original food of man.--Function of food.--Classes of alimentary substances.--Quantity of food.--Importance of varied diet. Rattlesnake Poison.--Its Antidotes. By H. H. CROFT. The Chinese Sign Manual.--The ethnic bearing of skin furrows on the hand. Lucidity.--Matthew Arnold's remarks at the reopening of the Liverpool University College and School of Medicine. * * * * * SOAKING PITS FOR STEEL INGOTS. ON THE SUCCESSFUL ROLLING OF STEEL INGOTS WITH THEIR OWN INITIAL HEAT BY MEANS OF THE SOAKING PIT PROCESS. By Mr. JOHN GJERS, Middlesbrough. [Footnote: Paper read before the Iron and Steel Institute at Vienna.] When Sir Henry Bessemer, in 1856, made public his great invention, and announced to the world that he was able to produce malleable steel from cast iron without the expenditure of any fuel except that which already existed in the fluid metal imparted to it in the blast furnace, his statement was received with doubt and surprise. If he at that time had been able to add that it was also possible to roll such steel into a finished bar with no further expenditure of fuel, then undoubtedly the surprise would have been much greater. Even this, however, has come to pass; and the author of this paper is now pleased to be able to inform this meeting that it is not only possible, but that it is extremely easy and practical, by the means to be described, to roll a steel ingot into, say, a bloom, a rail, or other finished article with its own initial heat, without the aid of the hitherto universally adopted heating furnace. It is well understood that in the fluid steel poured into the mould there is a larger store of heat than is required for the purpose of rolling or hammering. Not only is there the mere apparent high temperature of fluid steel, but there is the store of latent heat in this fluid metal which is given out when solidification takes place. It has, no doubt, suggested itself to many that this heat of the ingot ought to be utilized, and as a matter of fact, there have been, at various times and in different places, attempts made to do so; but hitherto all such attempts have proved failures, and a kind of settled conviction has been established in the steel trade that the theory could not possibly be carried out in practice. The difficulty arose from the fact that a steel ingot when newly stripped is far too hot in the interior for the purpose of rolling, and if it be kept long enough for the interior to become in a fit state, then the exterior gets far too cold to enable it to be rolled successfully. It has been attempted to overcome this difficulty by putting the hot ingots under shields or hoods, lined with non-heat-conducting material, and to bury them in non-heat-conducting material in a pulverized state, for the purpose of retaining and equalizing the heat; but all these attempts have proved futile in practice, and the fact remains, that the universal practice in steel works at the present day all over the world is to employ a heating furnace of some description requiring fuel. The author introduced his new mode of treating ingots at the Darlington Steel and Iron Company's Works, in Darlington, early in June this year, and they are now blooming the whole of their make, about 125 tons a shift, or about 300 ingots every twelve hours, by such means. The machinery at Darlington is not adapted for rolling off in one heat; nevertheless they have rolled off direct from the ingot treated in the "soaking pits" a considerable number of double-head rails; and the experience so gained proves conclusively that with proper machinery there will be no difficulty in doing so regularly. The quality of the rails so rolled off has been everything that could be desired; and as many of the defects in rails originate in the heating furnace, the author ventures to predict that even in this respect the new process will stand the test. Many eminently practical men have witnessed the operation at Darlington, and they one and all have expressed their great surprise at the result, and at the simple and original means by which it is accomplished. The process is in course of adoption in several works, both in England and abroad, and the author hopes that by the time this paper is being read, there may be some who will from personal experience be able to testify to the practicability and economy of the process, which is carried out in the manner now to be described. A number of upright pits (the number, say, of the ingots in a cast) are built in a mass of brickwork sunk in the ground below the level of the floor, such pits in cross-section being made slightly larger than that of the ingot, just enough to allow for any fins at the bottom, and <<< END OF SAMPLE... (THE FULL EBOOK HAS 236456 TOTAL CHARACTERS) >>>