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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Water-bellows

A blast-machine consisting of two cisterns partly filled with water, in which are placed the induction and education pipes, both standing a little above the water. Inverted chambers suspended on the ends of a working-beam inclose the pipes within the cisterns, and as each chamber is made to rise alternately the air is drawn up through the induction-pipe into the chamber, and expelled at the eduction-pipe by means of suitable valves; the valve being at the top for induction, at the bottom for eduction.

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