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izing substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities. Puddling furnace, a reverberatory furnace in which cast iron is converted into wrought iron or into steel by puddling.

A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.

ower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.

tory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.

To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.

A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace. [Eng.] [It is commonly called fix in the United States.]

h or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.

To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present. Floss hole.

re wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.

made either directly from the ore, as in the Catalan forge or bloomery, or by purifying (puddling) cast iron in a reverberatory furnace or refinery. It is tough, malleable, and ductile. When formed into bars, it is called bar iron.

or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill. -- Mill cinder, slag from a puddling furnace. -- Mill head, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill. -- Mill pick, a pick for dressing millstones. -- Mill pond, a pond that supplies the water for a mill. -- Mill race, the canal in which wa…

To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron. Ure. Puddled steel, steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of the puddling process.

The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.

n iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.

Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.

part and receiving a nut. See Illust. under Bolt. -- Tap cinder (Metal.), the slag of a puddling furnace.