An Improvement or Improvements in the Manufacture of Buffer Iron or Steel for the Buffer Cylinders of Railway Carriages, Trucks, and Waggons.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 7th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement or Improvements in the Manufacture of Buffer
Iron or Steel for the Buffer Cylinders of Railway Carriages,
Trucks, and Waggons.
We JABEZ LONES and CHARLES VERNON and EDWARD HOLDEN and RALPH BENNETT
trading as Lones Vernon and Holden of Sandwell Iron Works Smethwick in the
County of Stafford Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this Invention
to be as follows:-
Our invention consists in making in the manner hereinafter described the plates or
lengths of wrought iron or steel commonly called buffer iron or steel from which the
buffer cylinders of railway carriages trucks and wagons are made.
By our invention the manufacture of buffer iron or steel is much economized and
the buffer cylinders manufactured therefrom are stronger and more uniform in figure
than buffer cylinders produced from buffer iron or steel made in the ordinary
way.
In making buffer iron or steel according to our invention we take a thick heated
slab or bloom of wrought iron or steel and by a series of rolling operations effected in
rolls having grooves of the required size and figure we produce a long bar having a
width equal to the length of the buffer cylinder to be made and having the following
sectional figure.
One side of the bar is plain and the other side of the said bar has along one of
its edges a bulb or rim of a nearly semi-circular figure in cross section and along its
opposite edge a swell or incline. The rolled bar of buffer iron or steel while hot is
divided transversely by sawing into short lengths and from each of the said short,
lengths a buffer cylinder is made by fashioning the short length into a hollow cylinder.
and welding its edges together in the ordinary way.
When the short length is made into a buffer cylinder the bulb or rim herein before
referred to constitutes a rim at the open mouth of the cylinder and the swell or incline
berein before referred to at the other end of the cylinder serves to secure it to the
base plate by which the buffer cylinder is attached to the railway carriage truck or
wagon.
Dated this 26th day of March 1889.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement or Improvements in the Manufacture of Buffer
Iron or Steel for the Buffer Cylinders of Railway Carriages,
Trucks, and Waggons.
We JABEZ LONES and CHARLES VERNON and EDWARD HOLDEN and RALPH BENNETT
trading as Lones Vernon and Holden of Sandwell Iron Works, Smethwick in the
County of Stafford Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of our invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention consists in making in the manner hereinafter described the plates or
lengths of wrought iron or steel commonly called buffer iron or steel from which the
buffer cylinders of railway carriages trucks and waggons are made.
By our invention the manufacture of buffer iron or steel is much economized and
the buffer cylinders manufactured therefrom are stronger and more uniform in

page_text: figure than buffer cylinders produced from buffer iron or steel made in the ordinary
way.
In making buffer iron or steel according to our invention we take a thick heated
slab or bloom of wrought iron or steel and by a series of rolling operations effected
in rolls having grooves of the required size, and figure we produce a long bar having
a width equal to the length of the buffer cylinder to be made and having the following
sectional figure. One side of the bar is plain, and the other side of the said bar has
along one of its edges a "bulb" or rim of a nearly semi-circular figure in cross
section and along its opposite edge a swell or incline. The rolled bar of buffer iron
or steel while hot is divided transversely by sawing into short lengths and from each
of the said short lengths a buffer cylinder is made by fashioning the short length into
a hollow cylinder and welding its edges together in the ordinary way.
When the
short length.is made into a buffer cylinder the "bulb" or rim hereinbefore referred to
constitutes a rim at the open mouth of the cylinder and the swell or incline herein-
before referred to at the other end of the cylinder serves to secure it to the base
plate by which the buffer cylinder is attached to the railway carriage truck or
waggon.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawing the
manner in which our invention is to be performed.
Figures 1, 2, and 3 represent in cross section and Figure 4 in cross section and plan
the several stages through which the plain bar made from the slab or bloom passes to
produce the buffer iron or steel according to our invention. That is to say, the heated
slab or bloom of iron or steel having been reduced in the ordinary cogging or breaking
down rolls to the required thickness to form a plain bar the said bar is passed between
a pair of rolls having a groove or grooves of the size and figure proper to roll the said
plain bar into a bar having the size and sectional form represented in Figure 1. The
partly shaped bar Figure I is then passed in succession between other grooves in the
rolls so as to further reduce the thickness of the bar and give it the sectional forms
represented in Figures 2, 3 and 4 and thereby produce the long rolled bar of buffer
iron or steel represented in the said Figure 4. The said long bar of buffer iron or
steel Figure 4 has a width equal or nearly equal to the length of the buffer cylinder
to be made and one side of the said bar is plain but the other side has along one of
its edges a "bulb" or rim a of the shape represented and along its opposite edge a
swell or incline b.
The rolled bar of buffer iron or steel Figure 4 while hot is divided transversely by
sawing into pieces of the length required to form the bodies of the buffer cylinders.
From each of the said cut off pieces or lengths a buffer cylinder is made by rolling
up or bending or fashioning lengthwise the said piece or length into a hollow cylinder
and welding its edges together in the ordinary way. As the rolling up or bending or
fashioning of the length or piece of buffer iron or steel into a buffer cylinder
constitutes no part of our invention we do not consider it necessary to describe
the same.
Figure 5 represents in longitudinal section and Figure 6 in end elevation a buffer
cylinder the body of which is made from a length or piece of rolled buffer iron or
steel of the kind represented in Figure 4.
From the "bulb " or riu a at one side of the buffer iron or steel Figure 4, when
the said buffer iron or steel is made into a cylinder as represented in Figure 5, the
rin a² at the mouth of the buffer cylinder is made and the swell or incline 6 at
the other edge of the buffer iron or steel Figure 4 provides at the opposite end of the
buffer cylinder the additional thickness of metal 62 required to securely weld the buffer
cylinder to the base plate c. The buffer cylinder is finished in the ordinary way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim as our
invention of "An improvement or improvements in the manufacture of buffer iron
or steel for the buffer cylinders of railway carriages trucks and waggons."
-Making buffer iron or steel by rolling a bar substantially of the sectional form

page_text: represented in Figure 4 the said rolled bar having a width equal or nearly equal to
the length of the buffer cylinder to be made and being plain on one side and having
on the other side and along one of its edges a "bulb' or rim and along its opposite
edge a swell or incline, the said rolled bar being cut transversely into lengths or pieces
which are made into buffer cylinders substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
1000
JABEZ LONES.
CHARLES VERNON.
EDWARD
HOLDEN.
RALPH BENNETT.