Description
The equipment and the steps in the manufacture of open hearth steel wire are described and illustrated with photographs. Billet storage and handling, the billet furnace, rod mill roughing and finishing, stands, laying reels, rod cooling, rod handling equipment, pickling, dies, patenting, welding, furnaces, wiredrawing equipment, Nulmey machines, testing and inspection, galvanizing and annealing of wire, and the manufacture of nails, hoops and barbed wire are discussed.