Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1919 — Bent Castiron Pipes. [ARTICLE]

Bent Castiron Pipes.

Accustomed to bend pipes of wrought iron and steel for the sugar mills, Cuban pipe layers are reported to have applied their novel method to castiron material. Through mistake, the 10-inch castiron pipe for a water main passing through a crooked twotnile canyon to the town of Present was supplied only in straight lengths 12 feet long, with a thickness of shell of 9-16 Inch; and to avoid a long wait for bent sections a cradle of the desired curvature was built with old rails, six or eight pipes at a time were placed on it, when a hardwood fire so heated the pipes that in about two hours they bent and settled by their own weight to the cradle. Bending to various radii down to f>o feet is stated to have been effected without a single broken pipe.