Rollings of Various Sections for other Purposes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Dec., 1886.
Complete Left, 8th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 20th Sept., 1887.
[Communicated from abroad by LA SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME DES MINES DE FER DE
I'ANJOU ET DES FORGES DE SAINT NAZAIRE, of 1, Boulevard Saint Denis,
Paris, France.]
Rollings of Various Sections for other Purposes.
I, ERNEST DE PASS, of 68 Fleet Street, in the City of London, Fellow of the
Institute of Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as,
follows
This Invention has for its object improvements in converting steel rails and parts
thereof into sleepers for railways, tramways, and the like, and into rough rollings of
various sections for other purposes.
For this purpose, I employ, for the manufacture of metallic sleepers, either steel
rails worn out and removed from the lines, or the ends of rails accruing from the
manufacture, or rails presenting slight defects, and rejected. I take pieces of the
necessary weight and roll them, while hot, crosswise, between rolls similar to those
usually employed for the manufacture of sheet iron, in order to obtain a rough rolling,
in a flat form, of the width required; this rough rolling is then straightened, and
rolled lengthwise, between the grooves of the rolls which are of suitable shape to
obtain the desired section.
This crosswise rolling may also be employed for producing rough rollings. of
various sections for purposes other than sleepers for railways, tramways, and the like.
Dated this 9th day of December 1886.

page_text: Improvements in Converting Steel Rails and Parts thereof into
Sleepers for Railways, Tramways, and the like, and into Rough
Rollings of Various Sections for other Purposes.
I, ERNEST DE PASS, of 68 Fleet Street in the City of London, Fellow of the
Institute of Patent Agents, 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, reference being had to the accompanying drawings
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, as communicated to me, that is!
to say :-
This invention relates to improvements in converting steel rails and parts thereof
into sleepers for railways, tramways and the like, and into rough rollings of various
sections for other purposes.
To this end I employ, for the manufacture of metallic sleepers, either steel rails, 1
worn out and removed from the lines, or the ends of rails accruing from the manu-
facture, or rails presenting slight defects, and rejected.
I take pieces of the necessary weight and roll them, while hot, crosswise between
rolls similar to those usually employed for the manufacture of sheet iron, as shewn
at A, figure 1, of the accompanying drawings, in order to obtain a rough rolling in a
flat form of the width required, as shewn in figure 2. This rough rolling is then
straightened and rolled lengthwise between the grooves B, C, D, E, (fig. 1,) of the
rolls, which are of suitable shape to obtain the desired section.
This crosswise rolling may also be employed for producing rough rollings of
various sections for purposes other than sleepers for railways, tramways and the like.
Having now described this invention and in what manner the same may be
performed I claim, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent,
1
The herein described method of converting worn out steel rails, or the ends of rails
accruing from the manufacture, or defective and rejected rails, into sleepers for
railways, tramways and the like, and into rough rollings of various sections, for other 2
purposes, substantially as specified and as shewn with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 8th day of August 1887.