22/08/09 9:57 pm | Comments Off | Posted By: admin
Have you ever thought about how often a parking gate opens and closes at a 10 unit
apartment complex? How about an office building with 20 plus workers? Or, what about
your own home with all the trips to work, taking the kids to school or going to the
grocery store. If you have a gate that opens electronically it is going to be used a...
07/06/11 11:39 pm | Comments Off | Posted By: star8037
Wrought iron is the old material of the blacksmith. It resists corrosion far better than modern steel as is amply
shown by the survival of much of our heritage of wrought ironwork, in many cases, centuries old.
The Real Wrought Iron Company are able to offer genuine wrought iron rolled into all sizes of square, round and
flat bars from...
07/06/11 11:40 pm | Comments Off | Posted By: star8037
Before the dawn of the industrial age, the metal of the blacksmith was wrought iron, made and refined in
charcoal fires. The iron combined with the elements of the fire to make an individual material whose properties
have never been equalled for ornamental ironwork The great wrought ironwork of the eighteenth century was
done in such...
07/06/11 11:41 pm | Comments Off | Posted By: star8037
Alloy of iron and carbon. Discovered in 1856 in an attempt to mass-produce wrought iron. Made by melting of
cast iron and removal of carbon and slag. Small residual carbon content Cast into ingots and rolled into all
sections. Cheaper than puddled iron after 1876. Higher strength and better consistency. Poor resistance to
corrosion.
07/06/11 11:43 pm | Comments Off | Posted By: star8037
HISTORY
Wrought iron has been used in building from the earliest days of civilization, wrought iron door
furniture being commonplace in Roman times. The structural use or iron dates from the Middle Ages, when bars
of wrought iron would be used occasionally to tie masonry arches and domes. This use of wrought iron in tension
guaranteed its...