Die-Casting Machines: Hand-Operated and Automatic Machines for Making Pressure Castings (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Lake, Edmund Francis

 
9781330101544: Die-Casting Machines: Hand-Operated and Automatic Machines for Making Pressure Castings (Classic Reprint)

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Explore the evolution of die-casting machines—from hand-powered workstations to fully automatic systems that shape metal into precise parts. This book presents the history, design ideas, and practical details behind machines used to cast metals into molds, with a focus on the mechanisms that feed, mold, and eject finished pieces.

These pages describe how early devices moved molten metal through melting pots and into pressure chambers, and how improvements in plungers, valves, and heating helped reduce defects. It covers a range of machines, from simple hand-operated models to automatic systems used for making items like bearings, bobbins, and motor parts, along with the people and patents that advanced the technology.


  • How melting pots, cylinders, and plungers work together to push metal into molds.

  • Improvements in valve design, sprue cutters, and mold operation that increase reliability.

  • Variations in automatic die-casting machines, including mechanisms for mold opening and part ejection.

  • Examples of early innovators and patent milestones that shaped the industry.



Ideal for readers interested in the history and practical engineering of metal casting and the machines that make modern die-cast parts.

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