CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: AMADOR
Company: Harbison-Walker Refractories Co.
Location: Ione, Amador County, California
Years: 1959-1963
Type: Medium-duty fire brick
Description: Brand name impressed within a shallow oval frog.
Equipment: Dry pan, screens, pug mill, power-press, extruding machine, auger machine,
wire cutter, driers, continuous car-type tunnel kilns, periodic downdraft kilns.
High-duty brick use the power-pressed process, medium- and low-duty brick uses the extruded
process. Amador was a medium-duty fire brick.
Source: Harbison-Walker Co. Modern Refractory Practice, 1961.
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