Improvements in or connected with Dies for Pressing Horse Shoes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 2nd Feb., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Dies for Pressing Horse Shoes.
I, WILLIAM INCH, Superintendent at the Works of the United Horse Shoo
and Nail Company, Limited, Cubitt Town, London, 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 improvements in or connected with dies used in
machinery for pressing horse shoes In ceitam kinds of pressing machinery for
pressing horse shoes while in a red-hot state it has been found convenient to mako
the lower die movable so that it can be diawn out from beneath the upper die to
enable the shoe that has just been pressed to be removed, and a fresh one placed in
position ready to be pressed, and then be pushed back again heneath the upper die.
Heretofore the said lower die has been adapted to slide to and fro on the more or
less smooth surface of a bed or table the under side of the die bearing directly on
the said surface. As the dic is necessarily somewhat heavy it offers considerable
frictional resistance, and as it has to be drawn out and pushed in by haud many
hundred times a day the labour involved in effecting those movements becomes
severe, especially when the dies are for large shoes. The object of this invention
is to provide means whereby the labom of moving the die in and out can be very
materially reduced, and for this purpose I employ arrangements of the kind
illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Figure 1 is an under side view of a die provided with my improvements, and
Figures 2 and 3 sections taken on line of Figure 1.
A is the main body of the die provided on its upper side with the recess B to
receive the horse shoe to be pressed by the upper die (not shown in the drawings)
in a manner well understood by persous conversant with the manufacture of horse
shoes by machinery. C are recesses formed in the under side of the body ▲ of
the die. D are friction rollers placed in these recesses and retained therein by the
cover plate E which is shown partly broken away in Figure 1. The gudgeons or
journals of the friction rollers D take into semicircular bearings formed in the
underside of small carriages F each of which may be prevented from turning
round in its recess by means of a feather G taking into a groove II formed in one
side of each recess C, but in some cases these feathers and grooves may be
dispensed with and the carriages F and rollers D prevented from turning in their
recesses by the said rollers themselves taking into the oblong openings in the cover
plate E. I are springs bearing at one end against the ends of the recesses C, and
at the other end on the carriages F. The cover plate E 19 provided with
openings D corresponding to the rollers D through which openings the said
rollers D are free to protrude, as shown in Figure 2, sufficiently to enable them to
act as wheels for the die to roll upon on the surface of the press bed or table J.
The springs I are of sufficient strength to raise the die A with the horse shoe
therein clear of the bed or table J, as shown in Figure 3, when pressure is not
being applied to the die or to the shoe therein, but are sufficiently weak to yield
when pressure is so applied, so that the under side of the die then comes to bear
directly against the surface of the bed or table J as shown in Figure 2.
It will now be understood that when pressure is removed from the die A tho
springs I raise it clear of the bed or table J so that it rests on the latter by the
rollers D, and when drawn out or pushed in by the handle K or otherwise, it rolls
on these rollers instead of sliding and it is obvious that the frictional resistance is

page_text: much less with the rollers than when the under side of the dic slides in contact
with the upper surface of the bed or table J, and that the effort required to move
it will be proportionally less. When pressure is again applied to the dio the
springs I are compressed, the 1ollers D are pressed inwards into their recesses C,
and the under side of the die A comes to bear directly upon the bed or table J
which then supports the die in the same manner as if there were no rollers applied
On the pressure being again removed the die A is pressed upward by the
springs I and the rollers D again come into action.
to it.
I do not confine myself to the precise ai rangements shown and described as they
may be varied according to circumstances without departing from the nature of the
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim 19:-
First. In a die for pressing horse sboes the use of rollers and springs for
supporting the die clear of the bed or table of the machine when the pressure 18
removed from the said die, for the purpose of facilitating the movement of the die
on the said bed or table, substantially as described.
Second. In a die for pressing horse shoes, the recesses C, rollers D, carnages F,
and springs 1, combined and operating substantially as and for the purpose
described.
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W. INCH,
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, Agent.