AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR THE UTILIZATION OF STEEL RAIL ENDS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Jones and John Dowle Jones, of Swansea, in the
County of Glamorgan, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR
APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR THE UTILIZATION OF STEEL RAIL
ENDS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Jones and John
Dowle Jones at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd
November 1880.
CHARLES JONES and JOHN DOWLE JONES, of Swansea, in the County of
Glamorgan. "AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR THE
UTILIZATION OF STEEL RAIL ENDS."
This Invention relates to an improved machine or apparatus for utilizing steel
rail ends, such as those made of Bessemer steel or old steel rails, by rolling or coin-
pressing them and converting them into flat or other shaped billets or bars, and
thus rendering them suitable or available for being rolled or worked up for various
mercantile purposes, for which steel of this quality and size is especially suitable,
such as steel wire for ropes or for fencing, or for tool steel.
The object of the Invention is proposed to be attained by causing the rail crop
ends immediately after being sawn from the rail, or the old rails to be continuously
passed through a series of rolls, which gradually cause the rail ends or the old rails
to lose their original shape and to assume the shapo desired, as that of a flat
homogeneous bar of steel without crack or flaw; and for this purpose the grooves
of the rolls may be so shaped as first to remove the sharp angles, the rail being
passed through the first groove or rolls, on its side, and through the next on its
end or edge, and so on until the entire series of grooves or rolls has been passed
through, and the billet issues in the desired and serviceable shape.
The grooves through which the rail ends or old rails are passed are fitted with
guides for the purpose of supporting and preventing the web or middle portion of
the rail from bending or cracking in the reduction or alteration of its shape from
the double T or flanged shape into the flat bar or billet.
The Invention will be of great advantage in that the makers of Bessemer steel
rails have hitherto been obliged to sell their rail ends at a low rate in the Sheffield
market, or to the makers of Siemens steel for melting up; but they have never
been able to roll them up, as the steel possesses no welding property; but by the
adoption of this Invention the heads and other parts of the rail ends are compressed
into an equal throughout, and so make a flat bar of steel which may afterwards
be rolled out into anything desired.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Jones and John Dowle Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd May 1881.
"
CHARLES JONES and JOHN DOWLE JONES, of Swansea, in the County of
Glamorgan. AN IMPROVED MACHINE OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR THE
UTILIZATION OF STEEL RAIL ENDS."
This Invention relates to an improved machine or apparatus for utilizing steel
rail ends, such as those made of Bessemer steel or old steel rails, by rolling or com-
pressing them, and converting them into flat or other shaped billets or bars, and
thus rendering them suitable or available for being rolled or worked up for various
mercantile purposes, for which steel of this quality and size is especially suitable,
such as steel wire for ropes or for fencing, or for tool steel.
The object of the Invention is proposed to be attained by causing the rail crop
ends immediately after being sawn from the rail, or the old rails, to be continuously
passed through a series of rolls, which gradually cause the rail ends or the old rails
to lose their original shape, and to assume the shape desired, as that of a flat
homogeneous bar of steel, without crack or flaw, and for this purpose the grooves
of the rolls may be so shaped as first to remove the sharp angles, the rail being
passed through the first groove or rolls on its side and through the next on its end
or edge, and so on until the entire series of grooves or rolls has been passed through
and the billet issuos in the desired and serviceable shape. The grooves through
which the rail ends or old rails are passed are fitted with guides for the purpose of
supporting and preventing the web or middle portion of the rail from bending or
cracking in the reduction or alteration of its shape from the double T or flanged
shape into the flat bar or billet.
The Invention will be of great advantage in that the makers of Bessemer steel
rails have hitherto been obliged to sell their rail ends at a low rate in the Sheffield
market, or to the makers of Siemens steel for melting up; but they have never
been able to roll them up, as the steel possesses no welding property, but by the
adoption of this Invention the heads and other parts of the rail ends are compressed
into an equal thickness throughout, and so make a flat bar of steel, which may
afterwards be rolled out into anything desired.
The Drawing shows the arrangement of the apparatus for the utilization of the
steel rail ends by passing same between the rolls with grooves which act as com-
pressors, to gradually compress same into the form of a flat bar, which may
afterwards be rolled out as hereinbefore described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and object of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed or carried out in
practice, we hereby declare that we claim the said Invention, substantially as
herein before set forth and described and illustrated by the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Dowle Jones, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this 30th day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight