IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ROLLING METAL
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Joseph Fleetwood, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR ROLLING METAL."
Sealed the 16th July 1861, and dated the 24th January 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Joseph Fleetwood
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th January 1861.
I, DANIEL JOSEPH FLEETWOOD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS POR ROLLING METAL," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for rolling
metal. In the manufacture of various articles of metal, such as forks and
spoons, it is necessary to increase the width and diminish the thickness of a
strip of metal or "blank" at its ends. This is commonly done by cross
rolling, and for this purpose a pair of rollers supported at both ends by
standards in the same way as rollers for ordinary longitudinal rolling are now
employed, and these cross rolling rollers are also similarly furnished with
couplings and driving pinions which requiro their separate standards. In
working these rollers, the ends of the strips or blanks to be cross rolled are
placed through the end standard and between the ends of the rolls, the surfaces

page_text: of which are here at the required distance apart, the space between the rolls
being either parallel or tapering, as may be necessary.
Now, according to my Invention, I much simplify this apparatus so as
greatly to reduce the space it occupies, its first cost, and also the labour and
expence of adjusting it to each change of pattern. For this purpose I
employ a set of driving pinions mounted in standards as before, and I cause
the necks of the pinions, which usually are coupled with the rolls, to project
beyond the standards on each side, and to each of these necks I key or fix a
ring of hard metal (or the lower rings may be cast with the necks). The
peripheries of these rings form the rolling surfaces, and are for this purpose
suitably formed as may be required, and as is practised with the rolls now
used. In consequence of there being no standard beyond the rolling sur-
faces the work is placed between them more readily than when ordinary rolls
are employed; and in order to change the pattern, it is necessary only to
substitute for the hard metal rings previously in use on the necks of the upper
pinions other rings of suitable size and form...
The same arrangement of apparatus is also applicable for the longitudinal
rolling of narrow strips of metal, and when used for this purpose obviates in
great part the inconvenience arising from the occasional fracture of the rolls
now employed. When this takes place many patterns are destroyed, whereas
when rings are used, should a ring be injured, the patterns destroyed would
be one or two at the most; besides, to vary from one pattern to another, the
rings are more easily changed than ordinary rolls.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Daniel Joseph Fleetwood in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 24th July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DANIEL
JOSEPH FLEETWOOD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Daniel Joseph Fleetwood, Her special licence that
I, the said Daniel Joseph Fleetwood, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Daniel Joseph Fleetwood, my

page_text: executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR ROLLING METAL," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Daniel Joseph Fleetwood, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Daniel Joseph Fleetwood, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
:
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for rolling
metal. In the manufacture of various articles of metal, such as forks and
spoons, it is necessary to increase the width and diminish the thickness of a
strip of metal or "blank" at its ends. This is commonly done by cross rolling,
and for this purposo a pair of rollers, supported at both ends by standards in
the same way as rollers for ordinary longitudinal rolling are now employed,
and these cross rolling rollers are also similarly furnished with couplings and
driving pinions which require their separate standards. In working these
rollers, the ends of the strips or blanks to be cross rolled are placed through the
end standard and between the ends of the rolls, the surfaces of which are here
at the required distance apart, the space between the rolls being either parallel
or tapering as may be necessary.
Now, according to my Invention, I much simplify this apparatus so as
greatly to reduce the space.it occupies, its first cost, and also the labor and
expense of adjusting it to each change of pattern. For this purpose I employ
a set of driving pinions mounted in standards as before, and I cause the necks
of the pinions, which usually are coupled with the rolls, to project beyond the
standards on each side, and to each of these necks I key or fix a ring of hard
metal (or the lower rings may be cast with the necks). The peripheries of
these rings form the rolling surfaces, and are for this purpose suitably formed.
as may be required, and as is practicable with the rolls now used. In con-
sequence of there being no standard beyond the rolling surfaces, the work is
placed between them more readily than when ordinary rolls are employed, and

page_text: in order to change the pattern, it is necessary only to substitute for the hard
metal rings previously in use on the necks of the upper pinion other rings of
suitable size and form.
The same arrangement of apparatus is also applicable for the longitudinal
rolling of narrow strips of metal, and when used for this purpose obviates in
great part the inconvenience arising from the occasional fracture of the rolls
now employed. When this takes place many patterns are destroyed, whereas
when rings are used, should a ring be injured, the patterns destroyed would be
one or two at the most; besides, to vary from one pattern to another, the rings
are more easily changed than ordinary rolls.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed more fully to
describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS..
Figure 1 is a front elevation; Figure 2 a side elevation; Figure 8
shews a section of one of the rolls separately. A; A, are the framings or
standards between which the pinions B, B, are received and work. The
bearings or standards receive the bearings or brasses C, C, for the necks D, D,
of the pinions or wheels B, B. The necks D, D, of the pinions B, B, project
through the standards so as to receive the rolls F, F, so that the one pair of
pinions which are between the standards A, A, give motion or drive two pairs
of rolls which are outside of the standards. In the Drawing, Figure 3, the
rolls F, F, are shown to consist of rings of steel, keyed or otherwise fixed on
the necks of the pinions, but this may be varied by casting the rolls on or with
the neck. Motion is given by the shaft G and wheel H to the pinions B, or
the driving may be by other convenient means.
What I claim is, the combination herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Joseph Fleetwood, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
DAN. J. FLEETWOOD. (L.S.)