Improvements in Apparatus or Machines for Forming or Rolling Metallic Articles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 24th Jan., 1894--Accepted, 21st Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus or Machines for Forming or Rolling
Metallic Articles.
A communication by FERDINAND FELDHAUS, of 16, Quai des Augustins, Bruges,
in the Kingdom of Belgium, Manufacturer,
I WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and 323, High. Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex; Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
This invention has for its object to give metallic articles of all kinds any form
which may be desired; by means of an apparatus or machine capable of being
instantly stopped, and allowing any suitable shaping, either regular or irregular,
being obtained by mechanical means, such as it has been hitherto only possible to
obtain by forging, stamping or by means of the tilt hammer, press or the like.
This improved apparatus or machine may be advantageously used in the
production of axles of railway or other vehicles, twisted. telegraph rods, horse
shoes, boot plates, bayonets, parts of guns, etcetera, and generally for any article of
ironfoundry, coach building, etcetera, etcetera.
This invention has various advantages in enabling a shaped piece to be obtained
almost of the requisite dimensions free from traces of hammering or forging at
much below the present cost, and of being applied by entirely unskilled
workmen.
The apparatus or machine consists of a suitable framework having at the upper
end of one of its standards a hand wheel and screw intended to bring about the
engaging or disengaging, as may be desired, of the friction driving gear, which
may be, for instance, ✓ wheels. A second standard faces the first one above
mentioned, and both are firmly attached to a suitable bed plate, say of cast iron.
Beneath the driving gear, another friction gearing is arranged and receives. its
Imotion from the former. This second gearing has a counter weight having for
object to stop the shaping cylinders or rollers at each revolution at the place
designed for allowing the insertion of the article which is to be shaped.
A driving wheel is arranged on the spindle of the first named friction gearing.
Between the two standards of the framework there are arranged an upper and a
lower shaping cylinder or roll, the latter receiving a rotary motion from the lower
friction gearing above mentioned, and communicating the same speed to the upper
cylinder or roll by means of suitable gearing arranged at the other ends of the
cylinders.
The two standards are held apart by a suitable bar, having screw nuts at
its ends.
The shaping cylinders or rolls may vary in form and profile at various points of
their length, and may have shaping cams or eccentrics.
Dated this 27th dor of April 1893
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus or Machines for Forming or Rolling
Metallic Articles.
A communication by FERDINAND FELDHAUS, of 16, Quai des Augustins, Bruges,
in the Kingdom of Belgium, Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency Patent
Solicitors 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6 Bank Street, Manchester both in the
County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex Civil
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
This invention has for its object to give metallic articles of all kinds any form
which may be desired, by means of an apparatus or machine capable of being
instantly stopped, and allowing any suitable shaping, either regular or irregular,
being obtained by mechanical means, such as it has been hitherto only possible to
obtain by forging, stamping or by means of the tilt hammer, press or the like.
This improved apparatus or machine may be advantageously used in the
production of axles of railway or other vehicles, twisted telegraph rods, horse
shoes, boot plates, bayonets, parts of guns, etcetera, and generally for any article of
ironfoundry, coach building, etcetera, etcetera.
This invention has various advantages in enabling a shaped piece to be obtained
almost of the requisite dimensions free from traces of hammering or forging at
much below the present cost, and of being applied by entirely unskilled
workmen.
On the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 shows a longitudinal elevation of the machine,
Figures 2, 3 and 4 being sections of the shaping cylinders on the lines a b, c
and ef respectively.
The apparatus or machine consists of a suitable framework A having at the
upper end of one of its standards a hand wheel and screw B intended to bring
about the engaging or disengaging, as may be desired, of the friction driving
gear C which may be, for instance, V wheels. A second standard A' faces the
first one above mentioned, and both are firmly attached to a suitable bed plate I,
say of cast iron. Beneath the driving gear C, another friction gearing D is
arranged and receives its motion from the former. This second gearing D is so
counter-weighted by having its periphery formed hollow at one part and solid at
the other that the shaping cylinders or rollers at each revolution are always
stopped in the position designed for allowing of the insertion of the article which
is to be shaped, that is the counterweighted wheel D adjusts itself in such a way
that the cylinders are always open when stopped.
A driving wheel E is arranged on the spindle of the first named friction gearing.
Between the two standards of the framework there are arranged an upper and a
lower shaping cylinder or roll F and F', the latter receiving a rotary motion from
the lower friction gearing D above mentioned, and communicating the same speed
to the upper cylinder or roll by means of suitable gearing H arranged at the other
ends of the cylinders.
The two standards are held apart by a suitable bar G having screw nuts at
its ends.
The shaping cylinders or rolls may vary in form and profile at various points of
their length and may have shaping cams or eccentrics, and no claim is made for any
special form of these cylinders.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to.
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is-
An improved apparatus or machine for forming or shaping metallic articles of
all kinds and in all sorts of metals, consisting of a series of shaping rolls or
cylinders having shaping cams or eccentrics, arranged in standards and operated
by means of gearing, but capable of being instantly stopped in the position
designed for allowing of the insertion of the article which it is intended to
shape by means of a counterweighted wheel which adjusts itself in such a way
that the cylinders are always open when stopped; substantially as herein before
described and shown on the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 22nd day of January 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.