Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-08-31
NEW METHOD OF
 BRAZ|NG IRON By Means of the Use
 of F'errOfX.
An Arizona Company Incorporated For Applying This New and
 Wonderful Chemical.

The Ferofix Bra7ing Company is the name of an incorporated company recently organized in Phoenix. The incorporators of the company are Charles T. Coggeshall of Prescott, and c. H. Akers and Harry K. Tritle, of Phonenix.
 Incorporating companies for mining, industrial and other purposes has become such common affair in Ari- zona, that the announcement of new one, ordinarily creates but little interest. This one, while it may net be of any special interest to the general public, is of more than ordi- nary interest to mine operators, smelt- ing men and all parties owning or operating machinery. With the great est amount of caresexercised, machin- cry will break and will break at the most unexpected times as we'll as in the most unexpected places. It is just to meet such emergencies as these that this new corporation proposes to deal. by mending the broken parts, making them as strong or stronger than before being broken, and by doing so at a nominal expense, and in the great majority of eases by the saving of great amount of time.
 The capital stock of the company is $50, 600 and the president and general manager is Charles T. Cog geshalI, vice president, Charles H. Akers and secretary and treasurer Harry R. Tritle. The headquarters and general offices of the company will be located in Phoenix.
 MT. Coggeshall established shop in Prescott in February last for re- pairing broken metal castings by the Ferrofix process and during that period has repaired lot of machinery of various kinds, at a great saving of both time and expense to its owners. Among the large companies which have been his patrons, and who can attest to the merit of the process are the United Verde Mining company, the Tiger Gold company, the Braganza Mining company, the Model Mining the s. F. P. & P. railroad company, and others. In some cases duplicates of the parts could not be obtained this side of Los Angeles, or San Fran cisco and in others orders would have had to be sent to New York. In few hours time, and at a nominal expense, Mir. Coggeshall repaired the broken pieces that would have otherwise taken days or weeks to have secured new ones.
 The business in Prescott will here after be under the management of w. T. Hall in his machine shop near the depot and the company will also establish a shop in Phoenix.
 While shop has been in operation in Prescott, for six months, or since February of this year but little has been said about it in the newspapers and the story of the process and of how it works is fully told in detail in an article published a short time since in the Providence Journal and which follows:
 "About two years ago German inventor, Fredrick Pich, discovered a method of brazing cast-iron aud ex- hibiting specimens of his handiwork. But it was not until eminent German engineers had satisfied themselves by actual tests with castings, and saw them brazed under their own eyes, that the possibility of such thing as brazing broken parts was admitted. Pich's invention has been adopted by the largest iron working concerns in Germany. Broken castings weighing twenty tons have been braZed by this process and it is in use by such firms as Cans & company and Krupp.
 ''The method of treatment is, first, the cleaning of the fractured surfaces from all foreign substances or oxid- ation and then applying the compound to the fractured surfaces and subject ing the parts to about 1900 degrees of heat The result is decarbonizing of the surfaces fractured. At this point fiux is applied and brass spelter is run in and the parts united making the joint thus braZed "stIonger than any other portion of the casting. '' This, it is stated, has been demon strated by hundreds of castings which
 have shown that wherever new frac- lures have been effected they have
 occurred at new points. and never
 where the brazing has been applied.
 ''The saving by this process tc
 manufacturing establishments, where : extensive operations are dependent sometimes upon a very insignificant