The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-13
JOINING CAST IRON.
WONDERFUL INVENTION OF FREDERICK PIoH, OF GERMANY.

All Sorts Of Metals Joined One to the
 Other by New Process-Immense Posui-
 biIifies for Foundrymen-What the
 American Braztns Company is Doing.
 For hundreds of years men have worked and studied to discover a way to cement, weld or braze together broken pieces of cast iron. It has been the dream of inventors, the hope of al- most every worker in iron and steel. Various methods of "burning'' have been used and some are even tried to- day. The results, however, have been always unreliable, and experts came at last to place the brazing of cast iron in the category of impossible things.
 Accordingly. when Friedrich Pich, a German inventor. announced about two years ago that he had discovered a method of joining cast iron pieces by hrazing, his announcement was met with ridicule in some quarters and de- rision in others. x But the usefulness of such an inyen- ton was long apparent to eminent en- gineers. and some of the foremost met talurgists of Europe furnished Pich with broken castings to be brazed un- der their own eyes. This done and se- were tests made, it's strength proved the absolute perfection of the process.
 The invenion proved, however, to possess greater advantages than MT. Pich had primarily claimed or dared to hope for. Not only can several pieces of cast iron be joined together but cast iron can be cemented or brazed to steel, to copper, to wrought iron, to gray iron; or copper and brass to steel, brass segments can be successfully placed in cogWheels, or cast iron faced with steel or other metals.
 The material used in the process has been called "Ferrofix,' or iron f1xer The American rights have been sold to the American Brazing company of New York and Philadelphia.
 < The company is now well established and doing most satisfactory business, have eight brazing plants and fl agen- cies in the United States. and in all about 17,000 firms and individuals using Ferrofix. Especial attentionis called to the we'll known and representative men composing the board of directors, and the business which has been built up during the short period of one year gives every assurance of increasing prosperity for the future.
 The company is constantly opening running six months earns at the rate of about $5;0oO per annum and at the present rate of increase each should within two or three years, earn at least 1000 per annum. Fully twenty five of these plants can be operated in the twenty five largest cities in the United States and be under the control of the American Brazing company.
 These plants are doing a general business in brazing cast iron, also mak- ing certain parts of machines and fix lures for manufacturers in their re- spective localities. It must be conceded NY 5NCLyOllc EldlliilldIS WlLu llIe lildIlu- facturing business, that there is prac-5 tically no limit to the business of this character to be done. Aside from this there is vast army of 0.000 firms and individuals in this country, all of whom eventually will find Ferrofix essential to their business.
 It can be readily seen that when the entire number of possible users are se- cured that the profits of the business are beyond comprehension especially when due consideration is given to the enormous profits to be derived from the manufacture of brass tubing, plating, etc.
 The company is free of debt and in addition to the very large business now being done by its agents and plants, owns and controls the valuable patents, which are fully protected by the Pat ent Title & Guarantee company, New York.