Abstract
As an introduction to the visit of the members of the Institution to the Cardiff Works of Messrs. Guest Keen Baldwins, Ltd., the paper has been written to describe the blooming mill, and to indicate some of the reasons governing the adoption of this particular layout. It refers to some of the troubles experienced in operation and how they were overcome.
Rapid output of blooms is the result of several factors, ample heating furnaces close to the mill, good roller gear and manipulators, rapid reversal and screw-down gear, good shears, and the general robust construction of the mill —all of which are dealt with in detail in the paper.
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