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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Cinder-bed

Sometimes called a coke-bed; a means by which all vents are provided with a sure outlet, from the mould, through the spaces formed by the cinders, and out at the vent-pipes. See VENTING.

Cinder-pig is pig-iron obtained by treating in the blast-furnace rich slags and cinders along with ores or pig. See MILL-CINDER.

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