| Show IRON SMELTING DISCOVERY while henry ford it ife here very silent and uncommunicative as to news though affable and inclined to joke it may be well to mention a thing of which he has with apparent care failed to speak says the daily journal of commerce san francisco A dispatch from detroit his home city tells tell of a wonderful discovery which the famed 4 manufacturer and peace advocate is soon to announce to the world it is a new discovery in metallurgy of great importance to the iron and steel industries dus tries of the united states hereafter the iron ore consumed at the ford plant from to 1000 tons a day will go g 0 into the blast furnaces in its crude state and be refined by one heat into both pure gray iron and malleable iron on mr fords return from california his associates say he will give his secret to the world free of all royalties from the time the crude ore enters the furnace until it is turned out in the form of completely milled parts for motor cars it is not allowed to cool one process instead of two or more accomplishes this result for experiments which have been going on under the personal attention of mr ford a big steel plant in detroit was commandeered mande ered with its working force so that mie he daily production schedule of the ford plant might not be disturbed the new discovery it is asserted will save the ford motor company a year one of the officers of the ford company is quoted as saying the making of grey iron and malleable iron direct from the initial heat of the blast furnace has been accomplished the elements in a molten state are changed and refined and finally finished and poured direct into molds for grey iron or malleable castings as the case may be this has worked out to an actual fact and work produced what seemed to be an impossibility has been accomplished this new process not only effects a great economy in t the I 1 ie cost of manefa manufacturing C turing but also produces grey and mallea malleable ble iron of much greater strength and durability with the ford motor companas Comp anys use or at least tons of this metal a day one can readily realize the vast saving that will wil be secured this discovery will prove pra of tremendous importance not only in i ule the MO tor car industry but in all lines of bianu facture where these metals are used |
