Tie Acetone Illuminating & Welding Co., Ltd., 1 NAPIER s hyy ; & DUNEDIN 1 MAMMMKIff AGENCIES: I ■ DISSOLVED' ACETYLENE I BRITISH OXVCEN COMPANY, LIMITED, LONDON. || MTOAITO AVmr , SVENSKA. AKTIEBOLAGET GASACCDMULATOR, STOCKHOLM |] MIKOIIb OalDEi'.'-' fc' hamhb. railway, m® hilitaey, sighais. I mi IQI -——1 r>l I VIEW OF NEW WORKS, NAPJER. • | lnl "" — lQr: ~ ' |j
- • ATTTnrFMfITTQ WFT JJTNfr cutting avray of wreckage and temporary repairs. Cut- ART METAL WORKERS For welding wrought tluc-jd by Linde m 189t), and ill then sulmiittiu 0 the li f l u W ■ jj j .• nriliUlllU. . D . ~ , , . , , n , ••• wilhin the saino apparatus to a special process of rt?ctifi- If ting tram rails and building up worn parts, welded car iron and bronze ornamental work oi all descriptions. _ f+i i • i i 1 i I t. • • ' , . . • nt . ° , i . cation by means of which Oxygen of the highest degree 6 | It is now about four years since tins system oi frames and worn axles, etc. GENERAL ENGINEERS AND MISCELLANE- of purity is obtained, 81 welding-was introduced into New Zealand. Since then eTCE i cmmnoir! r ,• n 11 OUS-For welding broken castings from printing, tex- "11 it has been used extensively for the repairs of various STEEL FOUNDRIES lox making up blow-holes and other machinery, making up worn bearings, To effect this, air first purified of its carbonic acid || parts of machinery by the principal engineering firms aad d,?fects > casti^s > »lso cutting of gates and risers. welding pipes and . flangea , angles and tee « compressed, cooled again to atmospheric temperature, I J throughout the Dominion, also by the Railway .Work- , MARINE ENGINEERS AND BOILER-MAKERS pieces, etc. ' ' and dried. It is then passed through a fprecooler, m gj • .■ s which its temperature is reduced partly by the transfer | shops in the four centres. . , -For welding cracks and corrosion in furnaces of ma- Welding cycle frames aeroplanes, and other thin of l,eat to the nitrogen and oxygen leaving the apparatus, |1 * . .ii- • ■ rine and land boilers and tube plates, leaky seams, mak- • tubular construction work. and partly by means of an ordinary refrigerating machine. 1 . : In connection with ship repairs it was used with ing up landing edges, manholes, etc., repairing broken. Cuttill g up old boilers and other scrap iron or With it's temperature thus reduced well below freezing 1 considerable success upon the S.S. Knight of the Garter stems and stern posts, rudder frames, etc., also for cut- steel. point, the compressed air enters the'tops of the oxygen | kt Pert Chalmers in March, 1911, the S.S. Hauroto at ting out boilers and tanks for replacement, and removing f Brazin" and lead burning. '' separator, passing down a series of coils which are so I Napier in July, 1911. The cutting apparatus was used ' rivess rapidly. , . „ , ~ .. constructed as to.be surrounded separartely by both the I F , ' - - In addition to the above applications the process . I 1! Gxt&ii-sivplv for a,wjiv tortious of tliG Tvscr Xjinsr •' i' j. i i * * *i out ffoniff cold g"£iSGS. At tii6 bottom oi tiio scpQititor extensively for cuttin D away portions ijsei Liner TANK-MAKERS AND SHEET METAL WORK- » eauly adapted to various special uses. . to collect, and this, at first by evapora, 1 S.S. Star of Canada at Orisborne in August 1912. • , ' ERS—For welding tanks and hollow ware (in place of OXYGEN tio.-i and subsequently by rectification, rapidly becomes I CAurn i'titw m A mT/\XTCi AU ' mTTIf riveting), steel casements and widow frames, etc. * pure liquid oxygen. The compressed air, on its way to ' | SOME APPLICATIONS OF THE ■ . .. THE LIQUID AIR PROCESS. tte e st »„ s io. point* convey tta» s h 11A liqm.l, by CARRIAGES AND MOTOR REPAIRERS AND . . . which means it is largely condensed whilst vsvpourising 1 rMWOD. BODy B U|LDERS _p or repairing erackcd and broken *<• is not proposed here to give anything more than . a correspondinK . quautity 0 f l iqili d oxygen. It then 1 RAILWAY AND TRAMWAY WORKS-For cylinders, crank cases, cranks, chassis frames, castings , the biiefest outline of the Liquid Air process fo? the.pro- . pas3es through the regulating valvo and expands to low I ' repairing corrosions and.-cracks and cracks in boilers, in iron, steel and aluminium, welding steel body frames, duction o xj D en. pressure. By this expansion it is'reduced to the tem- -W broken loco fralnes, • castings," fire' boxes, crown sheets, - soldering of aluminium headings, etc., etc., genejal le- Briefly expressed, the process consists in first' peratura necessary to render it liquid. Ike process fj . cylinders, °u^^ P eto ' Am PROCE88) " j | BROKEN CYLINDER PREPARED FOR WELDING. !- , , : ——- 4 11 tmiVJsm, 60MPBE8SS8S PUHT. f|
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1866, 27 September 1913, Page 17
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