A Process for the Utilization of Old Steel Rails or New Rail Orops. without Re-melting.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd July, 1896-Accepted, 29th Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Process for the Utilization of Old Steel Rails or New Rail Orops.
without Re-melting.
JOHN RAINE, Winlaton Mill, near Blaydon-on-Tyne, County of Durham, Iron
Manufacturer, BENJAMIN WILSON RAINE, Escomb House, Low Fell, Gateshead-
on-Tyne, Iron. Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows
Owing to the extreme hardness of steel rails, and the fact that two pieces of such
rails will not weld together like iron rails, old or disused steel rails, and new rail
crops have hitherto had to be remelted before being put to any use, excepting in
cases where they have been slit or rolled down into hoops or wire, or rolled singly
into sheets.
By our method old or disused steel rails, and new rail crops, but particularly the
heavy double headed or bull headed sections thereof, can be converted into useable.
light sections of flange or bridge rails suitable for collieries, contractors, or other
purposes, without the cost and labour of remelting.
To obtain this result, we cut the old steel rails, or new rail crops (which we wish
to convert) into suitable lengths and requisite weight for one or more lengths of the
desired light section of rails, and having heated such lengths in a furuace we pass.
them through grooves in a pair of rolls which being slightly different in sectional
outline from that of the heated rails causes such rails to assume an altered shape in
the direction desired.
This treatment of the heated rails is continued through successive and gradually
altering grooves, the last of which turns out the heated rails in the desired sectional
shape.
Dated this Fourteenth day of November 1895
SNOWBALL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.
A Process for the Utilization of Old Steel Rails or New Rail Crops
without Re-melting.
JOHN RAINE, Winlaton Mill, near Blaydon-on-Tyue, County of Durham, Iron
Manufacturer, BENJAMIN WILSON RAINE, Escomb House, Low Fell, Gateshead-
on-Tyne, Iron Manufacturer, 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 :-
Owing to the extreme hardness of steel rails, and the fact that two pieces of such
rails will not weld together like iron rails, old or disused steel rails and new rail.
crops have hitherto had to be remelted before being put to any use, excepting in.
cases where they have been slit and rolled down into hoops or wire, or rolled singly
into sheets.

page_text: By our method old or disused steel rails and new rail crops, but particularly the
heavy double headed or bull headed sections thereof, can be converted into useable
light sections of flange or bridge rails suitable for collieries contractors or other
purposes, without the cost and labour of remelting.
To obtain this result, we cut the old steel rails or new rail crops (which we wish
to convert) into suitable lengths and requisite weight for one or more lengths of the
desired light section of rails, and having heated such lengths, we pass them through
grooves in a pair of rolls which being slightly different in sectional outline from that
of the heated rails, causes such rails to assume an altered shape in the direction
desired.
This treatment, of the heated rails is continued through successive and gradually.
altering grooves, the last of which turns out the heated rails in the desired sectional
shape.
We do not confine ourselves to any precise section, neither as regards the rail
which we propose to treat by the said process, nor as regards the finished sectional
shape, as this may be modified to suit varying circumstances and conditions, but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
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The process or method for the utilization or conversion of old or disused double-
headed or bull-headed sections of steel rails or new steel rail crops into useable light
:sections of flange or bridge rails without remelting, and in the manner and for the
purpose described.
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