The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-07
Iron, Brass and Alumi-
mum Plant at Sand
Springs Some Place
WORKS COVER q ACRES
Steel Building Housing Gen.
eral Foundry Is 323 Feet
Long, 80 Feet Wide


come Of the finest livestock and |
Jnodod horses in the world are |
rroduccd hcreabouts, and there is
o,,i,c n general suspicion that agri- |
cIitnro would be important in the |
- vicinity ~ given chance.
put comparatively few Tulsans |
know that this city is the home of
urohahy the greatest iron, brass !
and aluminium foundry In the
southwest.
ye. Il Is. The Tulsa Stove & Foun-
dry Co, located in the industrial
suburb OF Sand Springs, has grown
ir the 10 years OF its existence from
tho most modest beginning imagin-
able to n big business employing
nearly a hundred men. 1t was
founded in 1919 and Is still owned
and operated by A. C. Spitznagel,
who. before he came TO Tulsa, had
tondent and a stockholder in the
Woods-E -Evert2 Stove company OF
Springfield, Mo.
Pouring orr" Great Sight.
Great foundreS are common
enough in the manufacturing re-
glons Of the east and north, but out
here they are rare. 'lt is sight in
deed IL you've never seen II before,
10 20 into a foundry in the after
noon at pouring off" time and see
the fiery. liquid iron come stream
ing from the big cupolas into great
= ladies'. then to be poured into
moulds and transformed into pieces
OF all sizes and shapes and weigh
ing all the way from one ounce or
less up TO many thousands of
pounds
Sometimes It's exciting as we'll as
interesting when they pour off. In
spite of the greatest precautions the
molten mass occasionally gets
loose" That is, something goes
wrong with the apparatus that
check the flow OF terrifically hot
mental from the cupola when
ladle has been filled. on
such occasions the molten metal
comes madly out and 1t seems 10
come faster than ever. Quicker
than you can imagine a wave of
rampant metal is sweeping out over
the dirt floor OF the foundry and
the moulders flee. Then the cupola
tender gets in his work. He doesn't
have anything moro exciting to do
than TO break iron ordinarily, but
at moments such as this he risks
his life. He braves the onslaught
of iron, gets UP to within n few feet
of the cupola, plugs the fiery mouth
and then breathes easy again. In a
few moments the smoke clears
away, the moulders get back TO their
tasks and everything goes on much
as before
Many Improvements Made.
It's a show well worth watching,
this handling of iron. If you've
never seen it, get a party together
any day and go out to the plant In
Sand Springs any afternoon about 3
o'clock. The management will be
glad to furnish guide who'll ex-
plain the different processes and
4 take you through the works.
The Tulsa Stove & Foundry Co.
has made many important improve
ments and has greatly enlarged its
plant In the last year or so. Fore
most among these was the erection
Of the great steel structure that now
houses the general foundry and ma
chine shop. This building Is 323
feet long and so feet wide. 1t is
equipped with a five-ton crane trav-
cling overhead the full length OF
cheney of pouring the hot metal and
also making possible the handling
OF single castings weighing up tc
10000 pounds. The melting capac.
ity Is 171a tons an hour. The gen
eral foundry also is equipped with
air hammers and many other mod
ern devices.
$4,000 feet of floor space, and In ad
dillon to the general iron foundr!
the company has an up-to-the-m
ute brass, bronze and illuminating
foundry and a separate plant whicl
manufactures window weights only
These additions have been made 1,
the last few years and have helpe
the company to become one OF tn
best producers in its line in this par
OF the country.
The window weight or sash weigh
department Is located in a separat
building and Is capable OF produc
ing eight tons of sash weights pc
hour. This plant is equipped witt
two separate cupolas twhere tn
iron Is melted) as we'll as othe
necessary machinery.
the brass, bronze and aluminium
FOUNDRY Is equipped with moder
electric furnace. IL Is of sufficien
capacity 10 handle much more wor
than is required at present.
In connection with the three foun
cries the company has q patter
shop and a machine shop. In tn
pattern department highly skille
woodworkers turn out the pattern
from which the moulds are mad
to receive the iron. Very often
pattern Of intricate design costs
great deal more than does the prod
uct eventually turned out. Bot
pattern and machine shops al
equipped with the latest machiner,
Cops Get Guns Fixed Up.
The nickel-plating department
necessary for the finishing OF Gel
tain parts OF stoves, is very complet
rms department. is highly populs
with the police department. Or
DAY last week several members
the new Tulsa department took the
trusty sixshooters out and had 'el
nickel-plated. They were so please
with the shiny playthings when the
came back that the others who al
sure or their Jobs are thinking
having theirs similarly treated.
When 1t was founded the Tuls
stove * Foundry Co. was primari
stoVe-manufacturing concern.
made several stoves OF its own 4,
Guiding little laundry stove. thr,
or four sizes OF combination gas ar
coal heaters for the home, a hu.
Jumbo heater for wareroom
uepots stores, etc, and differel
sizes OF cook stoves II also made a
the castings from which the Que,
bee stove company of Tulsa a
sembled its stoves.
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