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Iron Carrier, Foundry

The Hayes patent carrier for molten metal is described as follows: There is a continuous overhead track, which runs from the cupola to the extreme end of the floors and return. The floor may be of any length; there is no carrying of iron by hand. On this track ladles of any capacity from four hundred to one thousand pounds may be carried. From these large ladles the iron is poured into smaller ones, into hand-ladles, or larger ladles with double handles.

A very unique and simple device is used for pouring the iron into the hand-ladles, so that the moulder need not hold the weight of the hand-ladle while the iron is being poured from the large ladle into the small one. The cupola is not stopped up from the time the iron commences to run until all is out. The very unique arrangement of having a catch-ladle which swings into the stream and catches the flowing iron while the exchange of large ladles is being made, saves all the annoyance around the cupola, and catches all the iron.

Moulders never need leave their floors. The iron is brought to them by common laboring men. The apparatus is simple, durable, and so perfectly safe that it frees the foundry from the mishaps that often occur by the old methods of distributing iron.