Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1906 — Continuous Smelting Process. [ARTICLE]

Continuous Smelting Process.

Two Australian inventors have found a new process for the continuous treatment of iron ore, which is to he exploiter! throiighoht the world. It is a process for directly converting the ore into malleable iron or steel, and is said to effect a sav A ing of 25 per cent. After the ore is concentrated it passes through a revolving cylinder and ia brought into contact with the deoxidizing gas; thence It falls into a hath of molten iron and is converted into steel or malleable iron, the whole process being automatic.