Improvements in Ingot Moulds.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ingot Moulds.
I, JOHN COWAN, of Cumberland House, Burnside, in the County of Lanark,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention, which relates to ingot moulds, has for its object to provide a
mould whose sectional area may be readily enlarged or diminished in order that
the weight of the ingots cast therein may be varied and the necessity for stocking
many sizes of moulds may thus be obviated.
The improved ingot mould is made of the ordinary shape in two or more separable
parts, the joints or meeting edges of the parts being vertical and preferably at or
about the middle of each of the four sides of the mould. The joint may be plain
but is preferably checked or rabbeted, and between the meeting edges are placed
removable fitting strips which are interchangeable with others of varying thick-
ness. The joints are secured by means of bolts passing through flanges on the
outside of the mould and held by tapering cottars or like means.
The mould may
be used without inserting the fitting strips at the joints in casting one size of
ingot, and by inserting fitting strips of suitable thickness any larger size of ingot
within limits may be cast in the same mould.
Dated this 10th day of Tun 1907
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
int Vincent Street, Glasgow. Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Ingot Moulds.
I, JOHN COWAN, of Cumberland House, Burnside, in the County of Lanark,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
This invention, which relates to ingot moulds, has for its object to provide a
mould whose sectional area may be readily enlarged or diminished in order that
the weight of the ingots cast therein may be varied and the necessity for stocking
many sizes of moulds may thus be obviated.
The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 of which
is an elevation, and Figure 2 a plan of the improved ingot mould.
The improved ingot mould is made of the ordinary shape in two or more separable

page_text: parts, the drawing shewing a mould composed of four parts, A, A1, A2, A3, the
joints or meeting edges of the parts A, A1, A2, A3, being vertical and preferably
at or about the middle of each of the four sides of the mould. The joint may be
plain but is preferably checked or rabbeted, as at a, a¹, a², a³, and between the
meeting edges are placed removable fitting strips B, B1, B2, B3, which are inter-
changeable with others of varying thickness. The joints are secured by means
of bolts C, C1, C2, C3, passing through flanges a, a, a, a, on the outside of the
mould and held by tapering cotters 6, 61, 62, 63, or like means.
The mould may
be used without inserting the fitting strips at the joints in casting one size of
ingot, and by inserting fitting strips of suitable thickness any larger size of ingot
within limits may be cast in the same mould.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
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An ingot mould made in two or more parts in combination with fitting strips
placed between the flanges of the parts of the mould for varying the sectional area
and consequently the weight of the ingots produced therein substantially as
described.
Dated this 10th day of March 19.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.