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Packing Sand – Pit-coal

Packing Sand

The process of forcing sand into the flasks or around patterns bedded in the floor is sometimes termed packing. See RAMMING.

A foundry term, used to signify any one of the sections composing a set of flasks; as top-part, middle-part, bottom-part, etc. See FLASKS.

A minute part of matter, an assemblage of general atoms, of which natural bodies are composed, as a particle of sand, etc.

A form of compact brown iron ore, consisting of round, smooth grains varying in size from a mustard-seed to a pea. See ORES.

A dry measure of capacity, and equivalent to two imperial gallons, or 554.548 cubic inches. The fourth part of a bushel.

A furnace in which petroleum alone, or mixed with air or steam, is used exclusively for fuel. See LIQUID FUEL; PETROLEUM.

A steel hammer with tempered points, for use in discovering scoria and other dirt which may be lodged under the thin skin of castings.

A common name in the foundry for a gate-pin, also a flask-pin. See GATE-PIN; SNUG.

An instrument for grasping objects, drawing nails, etc. Two handles work the jaws, which are held in position by a pivot.

A long bar of steel or iron, fashioned at the end, suitable for raising weights or propelling vehicles. See LEVER.

An imitation gold, composed of copper 5, zinc 2. See GOLD; TOMBAC.

The name given to mineral coal to distinguish it from charcoal. See COAL.