cup and cone (blast furnace)

method, process, technology

An arrangement at the mouth of a blast furnace through which coke and various additives, a mixture of ore and flux, can be added. The blast furnace gases are also drawn off here.

Traveljournal 1825

With Johann Georg Bodmer and William Fairbairn, 18 June 1825

Traveljournal 1846

The Butterley Works and a highway robbery at Alfredton, 26 October 1846

Traveljournal 1851

Further highlights of the Exhibition, 29 June 1851
Fischer’s business visits in Sheffield, 7 July 1851

Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.

Cite as: cup and cone (blast furnace). In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/keywords/gfa-keywords-8797, viewed on 23 June 2025.

[[title]] — Blast furnace mit cup and cone and inclined lift (photograph by Martin Stupich, 1989)