US370401A - Manufacture of iron - Google Patents
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- US370401A US370401A US370401DA US370401A US 370401 A US370401 A US 370401A US 370401D A US370401D A US 370401DA US 370401 A US370401 A US 370401A
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- XEEYBQQBJWHFJM-UHFFFAOYSA-N iron Chemical compound [Fe] XEEYBQQBJWHFJM-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 title description 96
- 229910052742 iron Inorganic materials 0.000 title description 48
- 238000004519 manufacturing process Methods 0.000 title description 6
- VYPSYNLAJGMNEJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N silicium dioxide Chemical compound O=[Si]=O VYPSYNLAJGMNEJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 52
- 239000000377 silicon dioxide Substances 0.000 description 24
- 238000000034 method Methods 0.000 description 8
- 239000012535 impurity Substances 0.000 description 6
- 239000007788 liquid Substances 0.000 description 6
- 239000002184 metal Substances 0.000 description 6
- 229910052751 metal Inorganic materials 0.000 description 6
- 238000009835 boiling Methods 0.000 description 4
- 229910021332 silicide Inorganic materials 0.000 description 4
- FVBUAEGBCNSCDD-UHFFFAOYSA-N silicide(4-) Chemical compound [Si-4] FVBUAEGBCNSCDD-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 4
- 229910001018 Cast iron Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 229910000805 Pig iron Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 241000876852 Scorias Species 0.000 description 2
- 229910000831 Steel Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 239000005864 Sulphur Substances 0.000 description 2
- 229910045601 alloy Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 239000000956 alloy Substances 0.000 description 2
- REDXJYDRNCIFBQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N aluminium(3+) Chemical class [Al+3] REDXJYDRNCIFBQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- RQNWIZPPADIBDY-UHFFFAOYSA-N arsenic Chemical compound [As] RQNWIZPPADIBDY-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- 229910052785 arsenic Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 230000001721 combination Effects 0.000 description 2
- 239000003599 detergent Substances 0.000 description 2
- 230000004907 flux Effects 0.000 description 2
- 239000000203 mixture Substances 0.000 description 2
- 235000021317 phosphate Nutrition 0.000 description 2
- 150000003013 phosphoric acid derivatives Chemical class 0.000 description 2
- OAICVXFJPJFONN-UHFFFAOYSA-N phosphorus Chemical compound [P] OAICVXFJPJFONN-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- 229910052698 phosphorus Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 239000011574 phosphorus Substances 0.000 description 2
- 229910000499 pig iron Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 239000000843 powder Substances 0.000 description 2
- 229910052904 quartz Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 239000010453 quartz Substances 0.000 description 2
- 238000009877 rendering Methods 0.000 description 2
- 239000004576 sand Substances 0.000 description 2
- LIVNPJMFVYWSIS-UHFFFAOYSA-N silicon monoxide Inorganic materials [Si-]#[O+] LIVNPJMFVYWSIS-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- 239000010959 steel Substances 0.000 description 2
- 239000000126 substance Substances 0.000 description 2
- NINIDFKCEFEMDL-UHFFFAOYSA-N sulfur Chemical compound [S] NINIDFKCEFEMDL-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- 150000003467 sulfuric acid derivatives Chemical class 0.000 description 2
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
- C21C—PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
- C21C3/00—Manufacture of wrought-iron or wrought-steel
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- This invention relates to a process of purifying, hardening, and otherwise greatly improving iron, all of which will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the commerce.
- This invention consists, essentially, in the use of silica (SiO,) in the treatment of iron.
- Silica is a very pure quartz found in great abundance at many places in the country-for instance, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the Ozark range, in the Cumberland Mountains, in the Rocky Mountains, and as also found at some placesin the form of nearly pure silicious sand.
- silica in thiscommon form after being crushed to a powder and fused to a liquid state, has a strong affinity for sulphur, phosphorus, and arsenic, and as a physio and detergent carries off these enemies from the molten and thoroughly-worked or well-puddled iron, leaving the iron purer than that produced in any other manner.
- the silica being to some extent reduced, in greater or less degree combined with the purified liquid iron, and in some way acted upon the iron so as to change its quality, greatly improves its character, rendering it a hard, tough, and steel-like iron, which, for want of a better name, I venture to call silicated iron.
- the process is as follows: The puddling-furnace is charged with the cast or pig iron of It is reduced to a molten state and brought to the highest white heat possible, and when in that condition the powdered silica, in weight from five to twenty-five per cent. (5% to 25%) of the weightof the iron, va'- rying according to the known impurity of the iron, is introduced. The mass is most thoroughly puddled, allowed to boil or simmer a few minutes until certain blue and greenish flames are emitted from the boiling mass, when the metal is worked out and manipulated in the usual manner.
- the principal features of this invention are the simple use of powdered silica, when the silica is to be introduced, how it may thus be readily fused and melted and made to combine with the molten mass of iron to eliminate therefrom the impurities, and at the same time imparting in some way (professedly not understood) such quantity of itself and such properties as to form the product silicated iron, semisteel, or greatly improved metal, above referred to.
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Description
Nl-TE TATES ATEN MANUFACTURE OF IRON.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent no. 370,401, dated September 2-7, 1887.
Application filed May 21, 1886. Serial No. 202.893. (No specimens.)
To all whom it may concern.-
Be it known that I, GEORGE GATEWOOD MULLINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Iron or Semi-S tee1, or Silicated Iron, of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to a process of purifying, hardening, and otherwise greatly improving iron, all of which will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the commerce.
claim.
This invention consists, essentially, in the use of silica (SiO,) in the treatment of iron. Silica is a very pure quartz found in great abundance at many places in the country-for instance, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the Ozark range, in the Cumberland Mountains, in the Rocky Mountains, and as also found at some placesin the form of nearly pure silicious sand. Byalarge numberofexperimentsIhave found that silica in thiscommon form, after being crushed to a powder and fused to a liquid state, has a strong affinity for sulphur, phosphorus, and arsenic, and as a physio and detergent carries off these enemies from the molten and thoroughly-worked or well-puddled iron, leaving the iron purer than that produced in any other manner. I have also found that the silica, being to some extent reduced, in greater or less degree combined with the purified liquid iron, and in some way acted upon the iron so as to change its quality, greatly improves its character, rendering it a hard, tough, and steel-like iron, which, for want of a better name, I venture to call silicated iron.
The process is as follows: The puddling-furnace is charged with the cast or pig iron of It is reduced to a molten state and brought to the highest white heat possible, and when in that condition the powdered silica, in weight from five to twenty-five per cent. (5% to 25%) of the weightof the iron, va'- rying according to the known impurity of the iron, is introduced. The mass is most thoroughly puddled, allowed to boil or simmer a few minutes until certain blue and greenish flames are emitted from the boiling mass, when the metal is worked out and manipulated in the usual manner.
To make a still more highly improved product I repeat the same process upon the iron already having been once subjected to the treatment.
It has been found in actual practice that when the powdered silica is introduced while the mass is boiling, and at most intense heat, not only are the sulphates, phosphates, and other impurities removed with the scoria, but, beyond doubt, during the puddling of the mass at highest possible temperature (and the more powerful the furnace the better) the silica is to some extent reduced, and in greater or less degree is combined with the purified liquid iron. The result is not pure silicide of iron, but possibly a silicide, or silicated iron, or whatever it may be styled, certainly a hard tough steel-like iron or semi-steel which by numerous working tests has been proved to have many admirable qualities. The principal features of this invention are the simple use of powdered silica, when the silica is to be introduced, how it may thus be readily fused and melted and made to combine with the molten mass of iron to eliminate therefrom the impurities, and at the same time imparting in some way (professedly not understood) such quantity of itself and such properties as to form the product silicated iron, semisteel, or greatly improved metal, above referred to.
I do not claim the use of silica in combina tion with any other substances such as have been heretofore employed as tergent, or alloy; but
What I do claim is- The process ofpurifying and improving iron by the introduction to the melted mass of iron, at the proper heat, of pulverized silica, which consists in adding silica when the iron is at a suitable white heat, subsequently puddling the charge until blue and green flames are emitted, then finally working the metal in the usual manner, substantially as and for the purpose described.
In testimony that I claim the foregoing as physio, flux, de-
my own I hereto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.
GEORGE GA'IEWOOD MULLINS.
Witnesses:
. Ronrr. CREIGHTON,
J. R. J ENKs.
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