Prerequisites and Common Elements

For Type Casting Machines

This set of Notebooks covers a range of preliminary topics necessary for the full understanding of type casting machinery.

First, there are certain technical elements which are not themselves typecasting machines but are nonetheless necessary for (or influential upon) the development of typecasting machines:

• The hardened steel mold
• The lever hand mold as precursor
• The force pump
• The nozzle plate

Then there are other components which, while not strictly necessary, are present on many typecasting machines:

• The choker valve
• Air blast (Barth, Küstermann?)

There are also certain basic design decisions which must be made:

• Swinging the pot back vs. swinging the mold frame forward

Finally, there are certain often overlooked things which are useful to understand:

• Nick orientation in hand setting, western vs. Chinese & Japanese