Drawing iron (wire drawing)
Drawing iron for wire production in the Werdohl City Museum
A drawing iron (wire drawing) is an iron or steel disk with a series of conically drilled holes of various diameters. This was required in an early modern wire hammer to make wires by pulling a thin and heated iron rod with the help of a special device, for example a wire drawing bench, through the gradually smaller holes. Even today, drawing dies are required for the production of fine wire, while coarser wires are produced in a rolling process .
literature
- Götschmann, Dirk: Upper Palatinate iron. Mining and iron industry in the 16th and 17th centuries. Ed. Association of Friends and Patrons of the Mining and Industry Museum East Bavaria (= Volume 5 of the series of publications by the Mining and Industry Museum East Bavaria), Theuern 1985, pp. 203-205. ISBN 3 924 350 05 1 .