The Encyclopedia of Founding

Twelve hundred entries from the golden age of cast metal — how bells are founded, why brass is not bronze, what a cupola melts and a core withstands — by Simpson Bolland, the trade's great teacher.

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Cheek

A portion of mould carried separate in the side of a flask, or on a drawback plate. The cheek parts of a flask are those between the cope and nowel, as in a three-part flask; it is cope, cheek, and nowel. See DRAWBACK; FLASKS.

Chemical Analysis in the Foundry.--See ANALYSIS.

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