IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSE SHOES to be as follows:-
Year: 1884

page_text: I, CARL ROBERT WEDELIN of 53 Södra Hainngatan Gothenburg in the Kingdom
of Sweden Engineer at present residing at the Royal Hotel Blackfriars in the City
of London do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSE SHOES to be as follows:-
"
My Invention consists in a method whereby increased rapidity of action with
simplicity of parts is given to horse shoe making machinery.
Hitherto it has been usual to employ mechanical means of various kinds for the
transference from one part of a horse shoe making machine to another of the iron
used in its various stages of progress and there is thereby introduced additional
complication of the machine and in most cases delay in the sequence of operations
and a cooling effect upon the iron under treatment.
Now I by my Invention so arrange the machine as that this transference shall be
produced by gravity throughout the whole operation, that is to say I measure and
cut off the portion of hot bar iron to be shaped in an inclined or vertical spout or
channel at a high part of the machine which channel is vertical or at least adequately
inclined to cause the bar to descend with sufficient speed for my purpose.
channel is prolonged so as to lead the iron to shaping rolls if that be the next
operation performed and it is further prolonged to lead for instance to bending
rolls if that be the next operation and so on.
This
The channels may be encased in fire-proof non-conducting material and
excepting when it is required to clean them or where the operation of the machine
would not conveniently admit of it they may be covered over. By these means
I find there is produced a great rapidity and certainty of action and the iron is
delivered even for the last operation required at a high heat and there is less
tendency than usual for the shoe blanks to be misplaced.

page_text: Horse-shoes.
I CARL ROBERT WEDELIN of 53 Södra Homngatan Gothenburg in the Kingdom
of Sweden Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVE-
" and in what
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSE-SHOES
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My Invention consists in a method whereby increased rapidity of action with
simplicity of parts is given to Horse shoe making machinery.
Hitherto it has been usual to employ mechanical means of various kinds for the
transference from one point of a Horse shoe making machine to another of the iron
used in the various stages of progress and there is thereby introduced original
complication of the machine and in most cases delay in the sequence of operations
and a cooling effect upon the iron under treatment,
Now I by my Invention so arrange the machine as that the transference shall
be produced by gravity throughout the whole operation that is to say I measure
and cut off the portion of hot bar iron to be shaped, in an inclined or vertical
spout or channel at a high part of the machine which channel is vertical or at least
adequately inclined to the horizontal portion to cause the bar to descend with
sufficient speed for any purpose. This channel is prolonged so as to lead the iron to
shaping rolls, if that be the usual operation performed and it is further prolonged
to lead for instance to bending rolls if that be the usual operation, and so on.
The channels may be encased in fire proof non-conducting material and excepting
when it is required to clean them, or where the operation of the machine would
not conveniently admit of it they may be covered over. By this means I find there
is produced a great rapidity and certainty of action and the iron is delivered even
for the last operations required, at a high heat and there is less tendency than usual
for the shoe blanks to be misplaced.
The accompanying diagram will clearly illustrate my Invention A indicates
shaping rolls and B is the spout or channel which is here shewn inclined. Down
this channel the pieces of iron to be formed into horse shoes descend by gravity
into the rolls A. The said pieces when shaped by the said rolls are received upon
the spout or channel C. which is also inclined so that the said shaped pieces descend
by gravity to the bending devices which are situated at D.
I do not limit myself to any particular angle of the inclined or perpendicular
spouts or channels provided that it be such that the iron will descend by gravity
from one part of the machine to another as necessitated by the work which the
machine is to perform upon the iron; I have indicated in the drawing two spouts
or channels the one leading the iron after it is cut into shaping rolls, and the other
leading the shaped iron into bending devices but it is to be understood that y
Invention may be similarly applied to conducting the iron to and from any desired
number of operating devices.

page_text: I have not shewn any details of mechanism in the drawings and I do not limit
myself to any particular details but I may remark that the arrangements described
in the Specification of my application for Patent N° 15913% and illustrated by the
Drawings are well suited for use with this system of automatic feeding to and from
the operating devices by gravity.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
In a horse shoe making machine the employment of spouts or guides so arranged
that they allow of the bar or pieces of metal and blanks or partially formed shoes
passing from one part of the machine to another by gravity substantially as herein-
before described,