Steel Ingot Strippers

This early 1900s photo shows an Inland Steel Company ingot stripper. The company's business was reducing iron ore to steel. Its only steel mill was located in East Chicago, Indiana, on the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal and a large landfill protruding out into Lake Michigan. The stripper is a powerful machine that pulls the mold off the ingot. Enormous steel grippers descend and grip the mold near the top, lifting it from the car. Then as steel ram descends and pushes the ingot out through the bottom of the mold, leaving it standing on end, still red hot, on the car passing on to the next mold til the whole row stands stripped and glowing.

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