Show the story of garciela Gar garfie fiela 77 7 arl r wal Y A ap S 5 A 0 4 1 not exactly a teacup this huge bladl ladle e which Is used to transfer hot metal to the converters at garfield editors note i this la Is the fourth of a series aermes 0 f ight eight ides titled tilled the story ot of Caril ild th the 0 third major step in the production ot of blister copper at garfield Is 11 the treatment of copper matte in the converter this Is the last fire process these converters consist of 0 steel cylinders 30 feet long and 13 feet in diameter pried lined with re factory brick there tilde are 8 converters in the converter c aisle at garfield and with this battery la ill full operation as it has been during the war it la Is a convincing spectacle ot of industry at work when the tha converter has received a charge ot of copper iron sulphide product or copper matte from the tha furnace arnace ur nace siliceous ore a added to this and air is blown in through pipes or the iron in the matte matta and the silica combine to torm orm an impure slag which la is skimmed off and recharged to the smelting smelling sm elting furnaces the crude copper Is then withdrawn and cast into cakes tor for shipment to a refinery smelting smelling Sm elting Is a technical a I 1 b business 11 I 1 e that requires ed expensive massive equipment and a crew of loyal doai well trained anil and efficient workers to make plus management it ft successful Garil garfield eld has all this the replacement and repair bill at garfield la Is tremendous occasionally a ily burul the huge furnaces a ces must be literally torn down and rebuilt from the ground up lip the accompanying photographs illustrate the massive equipment necessary to handle the tremendous quantity of molten metal with such euch constant heat and red hot metal pouring through the plant som something ething has got to give and it usually does and ma maintenance Inte nance la is important the floth article of 0 this series will be published later in these columns |