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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Wind-box

The encircling belt of a cupola which incloses all the tuyeres. See CUPOLA.

Wind-furnaces are air-furnaces which, instead of being urged by a blast-machine, blower, or fan, depend on a natural draft, which is usually induced by connecting the flue with a long chimney, as in brass and reverberatory furnaces. See BRASS-FURNACE; REVERBERATORY FURNACE.

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