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was allowed to run over a space paved with cast-iron slabs,
whence, after being cooled by jets of water, it was shovelled
in iron trucks and carried to the slag-heap. An installation,
shown in Figs. 55 to 57, is now being built in front of two
-of the blast-furnaces. It consista of two circular masonry
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heap, and part to a shop now being built, where it will be
used for the manufacture of bricks, slabs, drain-pipes, &c.
The granulating plant is being built on the site on wliich
the slag was previously made to run ; this necessitated the
carrying out of a special arrangement for the removal of
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Installation for Granulating Slag direct from the Blast-Furnaces.
cisterns, in wbich the water used in connection with the
blast-furnaces is collected. The liquid slag will be made to
run into the cisterns by a series of radiating gutters, and
become granulated; it will ' then be remo ved from the
cisterns by a grab suspended from an electric revolving
crane, which will deposit it direct in the trucks. Part of
the granulated slag will be taken as heretofore to the slag-
the slag, during the construction of this new installation.
It is provisionally made to How into ladies carried on
trucks ; these are hauled to an adjacent iron-paved space,
over which the slag is poured, cooled, and removed as men-
tioned above. This arrangement will be maintained, and
used when it will be necessary to repair the cisterns, or
whenthe slag, owing to varions circumstances in the work-
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