APPARATUS FOR CHARGING AND DRAWING HEATING, SMELTING AND OTHER FURNACES
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1886
Complete Left, 14th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 17th May, 1887.
Other Furnaces.
ARTHUR HARRISON, 39 Hartington Street Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, Engineer
& Mill Manager do hereby declare the nature of my invention for APPARATUS FOR
CHARGING AND DRAWING HEATING, SMELTING AND OTHER FURNACES, to be as
follows:-
A hollow pillar A is fixed in the floor at a suitable distance from Machinery or point
where material to be used is delivered. A long Arm or Girder B supported at one end
by being attached to a Bogie or Carriage C with wheels on, and at the other end by a
socket D which fits on Pillar A and allows Arm B and Carriage C to traverse round
in a Circle and is made to revolve by means of Two Hydraulic cylinders E.E. fixed
horizontally to underside of Arm or Girder B having a chain to each, one end of
which is fixed to head of cylinder and passing over a pulley fixed in head of ram thence
to back end of Arm B fitting in a Groove round Pillar A and fixed by a screw bolt.
One ram causing Apparatus to slew round and the other ram bringing it back again.
Carried on rollers fitted in Arm or Girder B and Carriage C is a peel F or other
suitable recepticle to receive Ingots, Slabs or other materials to be deposited in furnace.
The shank or back end of Peel F or other recepticle is connected to an Hydraulic
double action ram working in an horizontal occilating Cylinder G fixed on top of
Arm or Girder B which traverses the Peel F or other recepticle in and out of furnace
as required, to deposite or extract material being used. A vertical hydraulic Cylinder
and Ram H is fixed in Bogie or Carriage C directly underneath Peel F in the case of
charging and drawing Ingots and slabs to raise or lower same to suit furnace bottom
and facilitate drawing out.
The whole Apparatus is worked by a lad sitting on Machine near pillar A with three
suitable Valves and connections at his command.
In the case of charging Smelting and other furnaces requiring a scoop recepticle to
hold material being used. The ram connected to it is caused to make a part revolution
by fixing a lever near joint of ram and shank of recepticle to cant it when inside
furnace.

page_text: In adapting this apparatus to heating furnaces for Rolling Mills and other purposes
where the material is required to be used at one point direct from furnaces. Four or
more furnaces are built Radial from centre of Pillar which apparatus revolves round
or in other words forming a half or other portion of a circle. One apparatus working
the range of furnaces built on this principle. The slabs or Ingots being brought on
a suitable bogie to a convenient point. The apparatus lifts it off by running the peel F
underneath it and raising it clear of bogie by means of the vertical ram in Carriage C
it is then revolved round to the furnace into which it is to be charged and heated,
After drawing same out of Furnace when heated, the apparatus is revolved round to
a point where it deposits slab or Ingot on a rack or table with rollers in it and conveyed
to the spot where it is to be manipulated.

page_text: Apparatus for Charging and Drawing Heating, Smelting, and
other Furnaces.
ARTHUR HARRISON, 39 Hartington Street, Barrow in Furness, Lancashire Engineer
and Mill Manager, 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 relates to a construction and Arrangement of Apparatus and
Furnaces connected therewith, whereby the charging and drawing of light or heavy
material is effected in same time and same manual labor which is reduced to a
minimum, with an economy of tools, than in the ordinary method of furnacing
Controlable from one stand point for several Furnaces. Raising and lowering Peel
in or out of furnace. All working parts free and above ground.
The Apparatus according to this Invention is in the form of a long Arm or Girder,
with a socket attached at one end, which works round a column or stand fixed in the
ground or Mill floor central with Machinery or Rolling Mills. The other end
terminating in a Carriage or Bogie with wheels on which it runs on floor plates,
traversing the greater portion, of a circle in unison with length of Arm or Girder,
which is made to rotate backwards or forwards, by means of Two Horizontal Hydraulic
Cylinders and Rams fixed to underside of Arm or Girder, having chains with one end
fixed to Cylinders and passing over Pulleys in heads of Rams thence round a fixed
Grooved Sheave on Column, being fastened to same in required position, as one Ram
traverses out, the apparatus is slewed round in one direction the opposite Ram returing,
and vici versa. Fixed on top of Arm or Girder, at a suitable distance back from
Carriage or Bogie, is a double action Horizontal Hydraulic Cylinder and Piston
working on hollow Trunions, with a piston rod passing through both ends of
Cylinder, to the front end of which is attached a heavy charging Peel or other
receptacle, which is supported by rollers fixed in Arm or Girder and Carriage. The
Peel or other Receptacle traverses in or out of Furnace as required. And is raised
or lowered to suit Furnace bottom, or blocks of refractory material put in Furnace to
place material on. By means of a Vertical Hydraulic Cylinder and Ram fixed in
Carriage or Bogie with a roller in head of Ram on which the peel traverses, this
Ram and Roller is raised as material is going into Furnace and Lowered when inside
leaving material resting on supports in furnace and clearing Peel for withdrawing,
and vici-versa, when taking material out again, the material being raised clear of
supports before drawing out. In working this apparatus several furnaces are
constructed radial with apparatus forming a portion of a circle a suitable distance
away from point where material has to be manipulated. The slab, Ingot or other
material is brought to a convenient point, on a Bogie with a channel in bottom, or
otherwise. The Peel of apparatus is made to traverse out, and take same off, and
charge into, and when ready draw out of Furnaces, and slew round and deposit same

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on a table with rollers, on, which conveys it to a point where it has to be manipulated.
The whole apparatus is under the control of a lad, who sits on machine or apparatus
at Pillar end, with three suitable valves at his command for working same to give the
different actions.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. is an Elevation of Apparatus according to this Invention Fig. 2. is a plan
of same the letters in both figures represent the same parts of apparatus A is the
Column or Stand round which Apparatus revolves. B. the Arm or Girder. C the
Carriage or Bogie fixed on end of same D Socket fitting round Column or Stand
E the two slewing or rotating Cylinders and Rams F Charging Peel, attached to
Piston Rod of Occilating Cylinder G. working on Trunions through which pressure
passes. H is the vertical Ram & Roller fixed in Carriage or Bogie, to raise or lower
Peel as required.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is.
First. The construction of apparatus with the necessary actions required for
Charging and Drawing several furnace controlled from same point, substantially
for the purpose herin set forth.
Second. Arranging several furnaces radial with apparatus and Central with
Machinery to supply a Mill or other Apparatus either side of Centre substantially as
herin described.
A 1 1007
ARTHUR HARRISON.