Improvements in Reels for Rod-rolling Mills.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 13th Dec.. 1890
GOLI LETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Reels for Rod-rolling Mills.
I, CHARLES EDWIN MATTESON, of 10, Main Street, Allentown, State of Pennsylvania,
United States of America, Mechanic, 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:-
5 This invention relates to reels for use in connection with rod mills and the main
object in view is to provide a means for receiving and coiling a rod as it emerges from
the final rolls of a train so that not only will a large floor space in the mill be freed
for other purposes than the reception of such rod but the rod itself will be put in a
more convenient form for subsequent handling and treatment.
Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description
and the novel features thereof will he particularly pointed out in the claims.
Referring to the drawings:
Figure 1 is a side elevation with parts in vertical section of a rod drum and its
appliances constructed in accordance with my invention and,
Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
Like letters of reference refer to like parts in both figures.
Let A A represent the final rolls of a train employed for the manufacture of rods
from billets or other form of stock and B, the floor plates usually employed in rolling
mills.
At a convenient distance from the rolls A is mounted a suitable standard or frame-
work C having a riser or other desired means D for the support of a guide tube E,
one end of which is in sufficiently close proximity to the rolls A, to receive therefrom
the advancing or leading end of a rod as it passes therein between. The opposite end
of the guide tube is curved so as to direct a rod passing therethrough downward. In
this instance the tube E is made in two sections, the one being straight projecting
toward the rolls and adapted to slide telescopically within the other which is connected
with the support D whereby the receiving end of the guide tube may be adjusted at
different distances from the rolls.
The framework or standard C is apertured as at C 1 to form a bearing in which is
rotatably mounted a sleeve F having a flange F1 which bears upon the standard.
The sleeve may also have a flange F 2 adapted to bear upon the lower face of the
standard in which case if the flanges be integral with the sleeve as shown, the standard
bearing would consist of separable parts bolted together as is usual in constructing
bearings for integrally flanged journals.
To the lower flange of the sleeve is secured a delivery tube or lay off having the
form of a compound curve with its delivery end tapered transversely, and upon
the upper portion of the sleeve is a rigidly mounted belt or band pulley H, or any
desired system of gearing may be employed. The bent section of the guide tubo E
projects into the sleeve F and the interior bore of the latter is gradually reduced to
coincide with that of the lay off at the point where the two join each other.
In the floor plate B, an opening B 1 is formed of a size and shape to substantially
gree with that of the drum, and said opening leads into or communicates with a pit. J
ormed beneath the floor. Within the pit is arranged any suitable framing J1 to
upport the connected and operating parts of the drum.
Mounted in any desired manner upon such framing are bearing plates K4, K4,
rough which the spindle L1 of the drum passes. The body of the drum terminates
an upwardly and inwardly projecting annular flange L2 which facilitates the
moval of a coil of wire therefrom and also permits the rotation of the extreme and
elivering end of the lay off closely to the periphery of the drum without forming in
e lay off any abrupt bend whereby the passage of the rod therethrough is not impeded
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page_text: and furthermore the rod is up to its very end under the full control of the lay off and is
neatly coiled thereby. This latter advantage exists whether the flange 12 be present or
not. At K 1, a lever K is pivotally connected with the spindle drum, said lever being
falcrumed in a bracket K 2 and pivotally attached at K3 to rod L carrying at its
upper end a platform L 1 which is held substantially level with the floor plate B by
any suitable ineans. In this instance, a latch is provided and adapted to be operated
by a hand lever N pivoted to and extending above the floor, so as to come in contact
with and hold the platform L1 and rod L in the position shown in Figure 1 and so as to
detach the latch from the rod and permit it and the rod to rise by reason of the weight
of the drum and its spindle acting on the end K 1 of the lever K.
The operation is as follows :-
A suitable band or belt B1 being driven from any desired source of power, the lay
off G, is rotated and its delivery end travels a path close to the periphery of the drum.
The rod K energes from the rolls A A, enters and travels along the guide tube E,
until the leading end strikes the curved portion by which it is deflected into the
rotating sleeve and is guided by its coned interior into the non abruptly curved lay
off. As the rod reaches the floor plate it is by the rotation of the lay off rapidly
whipped around the drum and when leaving the roller is drawn more or less snugly
thereagainst and the successive coils are laid upon each other until the following end
of the rod passes out of the lay off and is whipped thereby against the drum.
latch N is now released from the rod I, and the drum falls within the pit, the edges of
the opening B1 of the floor plate retaining the coil and serving to strip the same from
the drum. The coil may he now transported bodily away for further treatment. The
operator now depresses by a foot or standing upon the platform so as to bring the
drum into position to receive another coil.
The
By the apparatus thus described the equally long distance of floor space required to
receive an uncoiled rod from the rolls is rendered useful for other purposes and the
rod is put into a convenient form.
In lieu of the system of levers hereinbefore described for actuating the drum other
means or devices may be employed. In Figure 1, I have indicated in dotted lines
one of such viz., hydraulic means which may be of any suitable construction and
arrangement of parts adapted to this purpose, the same being under the control of the
operator through the medium of the valve stem V, by which the admission to and
egress from the cylinder may be governed. This I consider a full equivalent of the
system of levers above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a wire recl, a rotary lay off having the form of a compound curve and having
the delivery end curved backwardly and downwardly in the line of its intended rotation
whereby it is adapted to terminate below the upper edge of the drum, substantially as
specified.
2. In a wire reel, a rotary lay off having the form of a compound curve with its
delivery end curved backwardly and downwardly in the line of its intended rotation
and tapered transversely substantially as and for the purpose specified.
3. A vertical reciprocative pitted drum, a system of levers for reciprocating said
drum, and a locking mechanism for retaining the drum in a desired position,
substantially as described.
4. The combination with the floor plates and the final rolls of a train, of the rod
guide, a rotary lay-off, a drum vertically reciprocative through an opening in said
floor plates, and a platform operatively connected with the drum substantially as
described.
5. The combination with a standard having a bearing an annularly flanged sleeve
provided with a single rod passage and a pulley, and a curved lay off secured to the
sleeve to constantly register with the rod passage of the sleeve substantially as
described.
6. The combination with a rotary lay off, of a reciprocative drum and an open sided

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a coil when formed may be withdrawn from the reel and apparatus
without lifting the same from the floor, substantially as specified.
7. In a wire reel, a rotary lay off having its delivery end arranged to terminate
below the upper edge of a drum, substantially, as specified.
Dated this Tenth day of November 1890.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.