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Christoffel van Dijck (c. 1600-5, Dexheim – November 1669, Amsterdam) [a] was a German-born Dutch punchcutter and typefounder, who cut punches and operated a foundry for casting metal type. Van Dijck's type was widely used at a time when Amsterdam had become a major centre of world printing .
In foundry work, the terms cope and drag refer respectively to the top and bottom parts of a two-part casting flask, used in sand casting. The flask is a wood or metal frame, which contains the molding sand, providing support to the sand as the metal is poured into the mold.
Further development of this concept has resulted in the "air-spike". [1] This is formed by concentrated energy, either from an electric arc torch or a pulsed laser, projected forwards from the body, which produces a region of low density hot air ahead of the body.
In 1869, the brothers Alson E., Arthur Middleton, George W., and Warren Barnhart purchased the Great Western Type Foundry. [1] They subsequently incorporated as Barnhart Brothers & Spindler. It was a successful foundry known for innovative type design and well designed type catalogs.
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The entrepreneurial founder, Joseph Winn Fiske (May 22, 1832 — October 20, 1903 [3]) out-sourced the iron and zinc-alloy foundry-work itself, [4] and concentrated on the firm's connections with modellers on the one hand and customer relations on the other.
The company has dropped the ambitious foundry plans for now due to the costs and time needed to build a network, and plans instead to focus on in-house chip design efforts, according to sources ...