The Meehanite specifications can be classified into three broad types: High duty flake or gray irons; high duty “nodular” or ductile iron (SG); and a group consisting of special types for applications requiring resistance to heat, wear and corrosion.
Castings made by this method are used extensively to make machine tools, gears, sheaves, cylinder heads, valve bodies, rollers and other highly engineered applications.
[3] This resulted in the development of cast irons of greater strength suitable for critical engineering applications.
[citation needed] “The Meehanite Metal Corp” was led by Oliver Smalley to license the processes to foundries.
The Meehanite Metal Corporation has a number of other patents[citation needed] on machinery for adding the inoculant agents to melts of iron in a controlled manner.