IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ROLLS FOR ROLLING IRON AND OTHER METALS
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
PAYNE, of Handsworth, near Birmingham, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain and Ireland,
bearing date at Westminster, the Fourth day of August, One thousand eight
hundred and forty-six, and in the tenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself,
Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Payne,
my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Thomas Payne, my exors, admors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Payne, my exors, admors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times during the term of years therein mentioned, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF ROLLS FOR ROLLING IRON AND OTHER METALS;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Thomas Payne,
shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Payne, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention has for its objects improvements in the manufacture of rolls
for rolling iron and other metals. In constructing rolls for such purposes it
has heretofore been usual to cast the rollers with axes or necks at their ends,
which axes or necks are very liable to be broken when in use. And it has
been attempted to cast rolls on to bars of wrought iron, such bars of wrought
iron being intended to strengthen the axes or necks of the rolls; but in such
cases the casting of iron rolls on to the wrought iron has injured the nature of
the wrought iron, and the rolls so manufactured have not, so far as I am
informed on the subject, been better than rolls formed with cast-iron neck or
axes; and other rolls with cast-iron necks or axes have been cast with a
comparatively small hole through the centre in order to ensure better castings.
I mention these matters in order that the nature of my Invention may be the
better understood, and the same consists of casting the rollers hollow and
without axes or necks, in such manner that wrought-iron shafts or axes
may be passed through them.
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In carrying my Invention into effect, I cause rollers to be cast of the size
required, leaving the interior hollow, to allow of the shafts or axes being
passed through and fixed therein by keys or otherwise; care being taken in
rasting that the hollow space within a roller is cast or formed truly, so that
the shaft when introduced shall fit accurately, allowing spaces for driving in
wedges or keys at the ends of the roll, which keys may be securely retained
from moving by shrinking wrought-iron collars on the shaft or axes. I turn
the working journals in the wrought-iron shafts after keying on the rolls, and
then turn the surfaces of the rolls. By which means of manufacturing rolls
for rolling iron and other metals I am enabled to obtain them with stronger
necks or axes. The wrought-iron shafts or exes so passed through hollow
rolls I prefer to be cylindrical, fitting cylindrical openings in the cast-iron
rolls; but I do not confine myself thereto, as other shapes may be used.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that what I
claim is, the manufacture of hollow cast rolls for rolling iron and other metals,
and fixing therein wrought-iron shafts or axes as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Payne, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Third day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
THOMAS (L.B.) PAYNE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Third day of February, in the
year of our Lord 1847, the aforesaid Thomas Payne came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.