Improvements in the Method of and Means employed for Rolling and Reducing Wires, Bars, or Sheets
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 25th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 24th Apr., 1695-Accepted, 25th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Means employed for Rolling
and Reducing Wires, Bars, or Sheets.
We, GUY GOLDTHORP of Pyenot Cottage, Cleckheaton in the County of
York, Wire Drawer and JOHN PLATT of George Hotel, Cleckheaton, in the
County aforesaid, Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in the method of and means employed
for rolling and reducing the size of wires, bars, rods, or sheets of metal and
consists of the use and employment of electricity whereby the wire, bar, rod, or
sheet under operation is heated to the required degree by an electric circuit
passing through the ordinary pressing rollers and through a portion of the wire,
bar, rod, or sheet so that the latter is heated only as it reaches the pressing
rollers, and by this means wires, bars, rods or sheets of any length can be operated
upon.
According to this invention we make the ordinary pressing rollers one pole of a
circuit and at a distance in front of such rollers is a contact maker attached to the
other pole of the circuit so that when the rod, wire, bar, or sheet passes over, or
between the contact, and to and in contact with the pressing rollers, the circuit
is completed and the portion of the rod, wire, bar, or sheet between the contact
maker and the pressing rollers is heated to the required degree before passing
between the aforesaid rollers which reduce the size of the metal rod, bar, wire or
sheet as required.
CLL 1004
BRIERLEY & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Means employed for Rolling
and Reducing Wires, Bars, or Sheets.
We, GUY GOLDTHORP, of Pyenot Cottage, Cleckheaton, in the County of
York, Wire Drawer and JOHN PLATT, of George Hotel, Cleckheaton, in the
County aforesaid, Electrical Engineer 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 the method of and means employed
for rolling and reducing the size of wires, bars, rods, or sheets of metal, and
consists of the use and employment of electricity, whereby the wire, bar, rod, or
sheet under operation is heated to the required degree by an electric circuit
passing through the ordinary pressing rollers and through a portion of the wire,
bar, rod, or sheet, so that the latter is heated only as it reaches the pressing
rollers, and by this means wires, bars, rods, or sheets of any length can be operated
Don.

page_text: Such being the nature and object of our said invention, the following is a
complete description of same; reference being bad to the accompanying drawings
forming a part of this Specification.
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According to this invention, and referring first to Fig. 1. we make the ordinary
pressing rollers 1. 1 one pole of a circuit by connecting the same by wire 2 to say
the pole of a dynamo or other source of electric supply, and at a distance in
front of such pressing rollers 1. 1 is a contact maker, preferably consisting of one
or two extra rollers 3. 3 or blocks of metal pressing on the wire or sheet under
operation, connected by wire 4 with say the + pole of a dynamo or other source of
electric supply, i.e. to the other pole of the circuit, so that when-the rod, wire, bar,
or sheet 4 passes over, under, or between the contact rollers 3. 3, and to and in
contact with the pressing rollers 1. 1, the circuit is completed, and the portion of
the rod, wire, bar, or sheet 4 between the contact maker 3 and the pressing
rollers 1. 1 is heated to the required degree before passing between the aforesaid
rollers 1. 1, which reduce the size of the metal rod, bár, wire, or sheet as
required.
A series of rollers 5. 5 (see Fig. 2) may be employed for reducing the rod, bar,
wire, or sheet 4 after passing between the rollers 1. 1, each pair of such rollers 5. 5
reducing the size or thickness of the wire, rod, or sheet.
The wire, rod, bar, or sheet 4 may be heated between two contacts 3. 3, and 3. 3
(see Fig. 3) and afterwards reduced in size or thickness by the pressing rollers 1.1.
This construction of apparatus is specially applicable for rolling and reducing
thick wire, bars, or sheets, which maintain their high degree of temperature for
some time after being heated.
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 :-
The improved process of rolling and reducing wires, rods, bars, or sheets of
metal, which consists in subjecting such wires, rods, bars, or sheets to the heating
action of an electric current, substantially in the manner herein described, and as
illustrated by the annexed drawings.
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GUY GOLDTHORP
JOHN PLATT,
By their Agents, Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.