In the long list of products of this great concern may be
found, under the head of “Mills,” blooming, universal,
plate, slabbing, sheet, tin, guide, structural, skelp, muck bar
and cold strip. Under the heading “Shears,” are bloom
hydraulic, lever, guillotine, vertical, plate, squaring, doub-
ling and rotary. Other products are high-speed forging
presses; sand, chilled, steel and ‘“Adamite” rolls; tube works
machinery for complete lap and butt weld equipment.
Under the title of “Miscellaneous Machinery,” may be
mentioned hot and cold saws, roll lathes, accumulators,
ingot tilters, mill, traveling and tilting tables; billet, ingot,
ash and slag cars; ore mills, squeezers, intensifiers, manipula-
tors, plate bending roll, iron and steel castings, machine
molded and cut steel gears.
Much of this will be found quite techuical, but it is
necessary to mention these numerous forms of machinery
in order to tell the great scope of operations of the company
under discussion.
Quite recently the United Engineering and Foundry
Company constructed the largest blooming mill in the
whole world. It is technically described as a “54-inch 2-
high reversing blooming mill,” This mill was recently
completed at the Youngstown plant of the company, for
use at the Homestead works of the Carnegie Steel Company.
In addition to its being the largest structure of its kind in
the world, it is of special interest in many other partic-
ulars. The entire mill is of massive construction through-
out, and with the exception of a few minor parts, the cast-
ings are all made of steel. Incorporated in the design are
the latest inprovememts in blooming mill practice, including
several exclusive “United” features. Due to the dimen-
sions necessary for the mill, it was practically impossible
to obtain sufficient spread of bed plates or a suitable arrange-
ment of feed rollers in a one-piece housing. It was there-
fore necessary to design a built-up housing assembly, made
up of four post sections and a top and bottom separator.
This design is similar to the very successful housing ar-
rangement which the company developed and built for the
206 inch 4-High Plate Mill at the Lukens Steel Company,
