Improvements in the Construction of Steam-hammers and other 66 Mechanical Hammers and Stamps
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1889-Accepted, 27th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Steam-hammers and other
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Mechanical Hammers and Stamps."
I STEPHEN MASSEY of Openshaw in the county of Lancaster, Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
"
My invention relates to steam-hammers and other mechanical hammers and "stamps
and consists in a method of forming the standards or frames and the bed-plates of
steam-hammers and other mechanical hammers and "stamps."
"
Hitherto the standards or frames and the bed-plates of steam-hammers and other
mechanical hammers and stamps have usually been made of cast iron or steel
castings or of plates of wrought iron or steel secured together by rivets, angle-
irons or seams or other such means or partly of cast iron or steel castings and
partly of plates or slabs of steel or wrought or cast iron or partly of cast iron and
steel castings and partly of plates or slabs of steel or wrought iron or cast iron.
According to my invention I make the standards or frames and the bed-plates of
steam-hammers and other mechanical hammers and "stamps" each of a single plate
of steel or other suitable material of the required form which is heated if necessary or
desirable, and pressed into or upon or by means of suitable dies or matrices in, upon or
by means of which such plate is formed into the shape necessary to give the standard
or frame or bed-plate adequate rigidity and to provide the flanges, facings and other
parts necessary for the attachment of the other parts of the steam-hammer or other
imechanical hammer or
stamp."
Dated this Twenty fifth day of Sentember 1888
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Steam-hammers and other
Mechanical Hammers and Stamps."
I STEPHEN MASSEY of Openshaw in the county of Lancaster, Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention relates to steam-hammers and other mechanical hammers and "stamps"
and consists in a method of forming the standards or frames and the bed-plates of
steain-haimmers and other mechanical hammers and "stamps."
Hitherto the standards or frames and the bed-plates of steam-hammers and other
mechanical bammers and "stamps" have usually been made of cast iron or steel
castings or of plates of wrought iron or steel secured together by rivets, angle-irons
or seams or other such means or partly of cast iron or steel castings and partly of
plates or slabs of steel or wrought or cast iron or partly of cast iron and steel castings
and partly of plates or slabs of steel or wrought iron or cast iron.
According to my invention I make the standards or frames and the bed-plates of
steam-hammers and other mechanical hammers and "stamps" each of a single plate of
steel or other suitable material of the required form which is heated, if necessary or
desirable, and pressed into or upon or by means of suitable dies or matrices in, upon
or by means of which such plate is formed into the shape necessary to give the
standard or frame or bed-plate adequate rigidity and to provide the flanges, facings
and other parts necessary for the attachment of the other parts of the steam-hammer
or other mechanical hammer or "stamp."

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The accompanying drawings illustrate the application of my invention..
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a plan and Fig 2 is a section taken on the
plane. indicated by the line A A of Fig. 1 of a bed-plate for a steam-hammer, such
bed-plate being formed according to my invention.
In applying my invention to the formation of a bed-plate such as is illustrated in
Figs. 1 and 2 I take a plate of steel or other suitable material and after cutting it to
the required shape I, if necessary or desirable, heat it and then by means of suitable
dies or matrices form it into the shape necessary to give the bed-plate adequate rigidity
and to provide the flanges or facings and other parts necessary for the attachment of
the other parts of the steam-hammer.
Figs. 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings illustrate the application of my
invention to the formation of a standard for an "overhanging" steam-hammer, Fig. 3
being a front view and Fig. 4 an edge view.
In applying my invention to the formation of a standard such as is illustrated in
Figs. 3 and 4 I take a plate of steel or other suitable material and after cutting it to
the required shape I, if necessary or desirable, heat it and then by means of suitable
dies and matrices form the plate into the shape necessary to give the standard
adequate rigidity and to provide the flanges, facings and other parts necessary for the
attachment of the other parts of the steam-hammer.
Fig. 5 is a front view and Fig. 6 a section taken on the line B B of Fig. 5 of
another form of standard for a steam-hammer in the formation of which my invention
may be applied. As the standard illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 is formed in a manner
similar to that in which the standard or frame illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 is formed no
further description of Figs. 5 and 6 is requisite.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The herein before described method of forming the standards or frames and the bed-
plates of steam-haminers and other mechanical hammers and "stamps" which method
consists in making the standards or frames and the bed-plates of steam-hammers and
other mechanical hammers and "stamps" each of a single plate of steel or other
suitable material of the required form by forming, by pressing it into, upon or by
means of suitable dies and matrices, such plate of steel or other suitable material
into the shape necessary to give the standard or frame or bed-plate adequate rigidity
and to provide the flanges, facings and other parts necessary for the attachment of
the other parts of the steam-hammer or other imechanical hammer or "stamp."
Dated this Twenty-fifth day of June 1889.