An Annealing Apparatus to be Applied to Heating Furnaces for Iron, Steel, or Metal Sheets and Plates.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Feb., 1892-Accepted, 23rd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Annealing Apparatus to be Applied to Heating Furnaces for
Iron, Steel, or Metal Sheets and Plates.
WILLIAM BEVAN No. 9 Glamor Place Llanelly Carmarthenshire, Contractor
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
My invention consists of one or any number of horizontal tubes laid side by side
to any required length and width made of wrought iron, or cast iron, or of
refractory materials with doors at each end.
The pieces of iron, steel, steel sheets iron sheets or copper, copper sheets or any
other alloys of metal sheets, will be carried through the heated tube or tubes on
endless chains driven over pulleys and deposited into a heated chamber at the
other end.
The tube or tubes will be heated inside and outside with producer gas or ordinary
furnace grate or other method, thereby reducing the cost of fuel and the easier
manipulation of plates also ensuring a better annealed plate.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1891.
WILLIAM BEVAN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Annealing Apparatus to be Applied to Heating Furnaces for
Iron, Steel, or Metal Sheets and Plates.
WILLIAM BEVAN No. 9 Glanmor Place Llanelly Carmarthenshire Contractor.
I 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 :-
My invention consists of one or any number of horizontal tubes laid side by side
to any required length and width made of wrought iron or cast iron or of refractory
materials with doors at each end. The pieces of iron, steel, steel sheets, iron sheets,
or copper copper sheets or any other alloys of metal sheets will be carried through
the heated tube or tubes on endless chains driven over pulleys and deposited on a
travelling carriage into a heated chamber at the other end.
The tube or tubes and chamber may be so constructed that the heat can be
applied inside and outside with producer gas or ordinary furnace grate or other
method.
The object of my invention being to secure the application of a more uniform
heat to the plates or sheets thereby securing a better annealed plates or sheets in
passing through the tube or tubes."
For this purpose I arrange a tube to be heated and a chamber at the end as I
shall described refereing to the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 being a horizontal section Fig. 2 being a plan.
The sheets or plates, A, will be placed on endless chains B, and travel through
tube C, and deposited in a chamber D, on a travelling carriage E.
Fgas combustion chamber, G flue to stack, H, cast iron drop dampers in
connection with chamber.

page_text: Having now particularly. described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is,
Ist. In passing sheets or plates through the heated tube to be deposited in a
Having now particularly. described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is,
Ist. In passing sheets or plates through the heated tube to be deposited in a
chamber as described.
2nd. The chamber in combination with tube or tubes as described.
3rd. The construction of chamber as described.
Dated this Oth dow of March 1900
WILLIAM BEVAN.