Improvements in Making Box Piles for the Production of Blooms and Bars and other Forms of Iron or Steel, or Mixtures of Iron and Steel.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 9th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Making Box Piles for the Production of Blooms
and Bars and other Forms of Iron or Steel, or Mixtures of Iron
and Steel.
We JABEZ LONES and CHARLES VERNON and EDWARD HOLDEN and RALPH
BENNETT trading as Lones Vernon and Holden of Sandwell Iron Works Smethwick
in the County of Stafford Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this Inven-
tion to be as follows
Our invention consists in making box piles for the production of blooms and bars
and other forms of iron or steel or mixtures of iron and steel in the manner herein-
after described.
By our invention the box piles are very readily made and the parts of which they
are composed are little liable to displacement and hence the figure of the pile during
the heating and rolling or welding operations is preserved.
According to our invention we make the side and end walls of the box pile of a
puddled bar of iron or steel bent into a rectangular frame or case the breadth of the
puddled bar being somewhat less than the height of the pile to be made. We prefer
to bend the puddled bar into the rectangular or oblong frame or case without
reheating it that is on its delivery from the rolls and while still hot. We use with
the rectangular frame or case described constituting the side and end walls of the
pile to be made a bottom supporting bar and a top covering bar the said bars
having the same or nearly the same size and figure in plan as the said frame or
case.
In building up a box pile according to our invention we proceed as follows-We
support the rectangular frame or case on the bar constituting the bottom of the pile
and we fill the open box or case thus made with scrap iron or steel or with mixtures
of iron and steel. We then cover the partly made pile with a top covering bar of
the same size as the bottom supporting bar. The pile is thus complete and is raised
to a welding heat in a heating furnace and rolled or welded into a bloom or bar or is
otherwise operated upon in the ordinary way.
Instead of making the side and end walls of the box pile from a puddled bar of
iron or steel bent into a rectangular frame or case a rectangular frame or case made
in halves may be used the half frames or cases meeting at the middle of the pile. Or
the puddled bar may be bent into a figure resembling the letter U the U shaped case
or frame forming the side walls and one of the end walls of the pile the other end
wall being formed of scrap iron or steel in building up the pile. Or the rectangular
case or frame of the pile may be made from two angle bars each angle bar forming
one of the side walls and one of the end walls of the said case or frame. These two
angle bars are bound together both transversely and longitudinally by cross stretchers
being made to engage in recesses at the top and bottom of the side walls of the case
or frame.
A bottom supporting bar and a top covering bar are used with each of the
modified piles last described.
Or we make an open ended box pile of four bars two bars forming the side walls
and two other bars forming the bottom supporting bar and the top covering bar of
the box the said four bars being bound together longitudinally and transversely by
stretchers the ends of which engage with the said four bars. As this pile is open
ended crossing stretchers at each end taking into the side bars and top and bottom
bars are used to prevent the scrap with which the pile is filled from falling out of the
case or box at its ends.
Or the four bars of which the open ended case of the pile is composed may be so
made that their longitudinal edges are looked together. For this purpose the top

page_text: and botton bars are trough shaped in cross section and the upper and lower edges of
the bars forming the side walls of the pile are rolled with side cheeks or ribs with
which cheeks or ribs the ribs, or sides of the trough shaped top and bottom bars
engage so as to lock the four bars together. In this form of pile stretchers at the
open ends of the pile are only required.
Dated this 28th day of March 1889.
W. T. WHITEMAN,-
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Making Box Piles for the Production of Blooms
and Bars and other Forms of Iron or Steel, or Mixtures of Iron
and Steel.
We JABEZ LONES and CHARLES VERNON and EDWARD HOLDEN and RALPH
BENNETT, trading as Lones, Vernon and Holdon. of Sandwell Iron Works, Smeth-
wick, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of our
invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention consists in making box piles for the production of blooms and bars
and other forms of iron or steel or mixtures of iron and steel in the manner herein-
after described.
By our invention the box piles are very readily made and the parts of which they
are composed are little liable to displacement and hence the figure of the pile during
the heating and rolling or welding operations is preserved.
According to one of the arrangements of our invention we make the side and end
walls of the box pile of a puddled bar of iron or steel bent into a rectangular frame
or case, the breadth of the puddled bar being somewhat less than the height of the
pile to be made. We bend the puddled bar into the rectangular or oblong frame or
case without reheating it; that is, on its delivery from the rolls and while still hot; or
we reheat the puddled bar before operating upon it.
We use with the rectangular
frame or case described constituting the side and end walls of the pile to be made a
bottom supporting bar and a top covering bar, the said bars having the same or
nearly the same size and figure in plan as the said frame or case.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents in side elevation; Figure 2 in
end elevation and Figure 3 in plan, the walls of a box pile constructed according to
this part of our invention and Figure 4 represents in side elevation and plan the
rectangular or oblong frame or case of the pile detached.
a is the rectangular frame or case of the pile made by bending a heated puddled
bar of iron or steel into the form represented; that is, into a frame or case open at
top and bottom, the edges of the bent puddled bar meeting nearly at the middle of
one end of the frame or case. Or the edges of the bent puddled bar may abut or
nearly abut against one another at the middle of one end of the case. The
rectangular frame or case a constitutes the side and end walls of the pile the said
frame or case being supported on the bottom bar b and covered by the top bar c.
The said bottom and top bars b, c have nearly the same size and form in plan as the
frame or case a.
In building up the pile we proceed as follows:-We support the rectangular frame
or case a on the bar & constituting the. bottom of the pile and we fill the open box or
case thus made with scrap iron or steel or mixtures of iron and steel.
We then cover
the partly made pile with the top covering bar c. The pile is now complete and is
raised to a welding heat in a heating furnace and rolled or welded into a bloom or
bar or is otherwise operated upon in the ordinary way. The parts of the box pile do
not require to be bound together by bands or hoops before the said pile is placed in
the heating furnace and hence the inconvenience attending the use of bands or hoops
is avoided.

page_text: Instead of making the side and end walls of the box pile from a puddled bar of
iron or steel bent into a rectangular frame or case, a rectangular frame or case made
in halves may he used, the half frames or cases meeting at the middle of the pile.
This modification of our invention is represented in side elevation and plan in
Figure 5 of the Drawings where the half frames or cases are marked e. f
Or the puddled bar may be bent into the form of the letter U, the U-shaped case
or frame forming the side walls and one of the end walls of the pile, the other end
wall being formed of scrap iron or steel in building up the pile in the interior
of the case or frame. This modification is represented in side elevation and plan in
Figure 6 where the U-shaped case or frame is marked g.
A bottom supporting bar and a top covering bar are used with the modified
cases or frames of the piles represented in Figures 5 and 6.
Or the rectangular case or frame of the pile may be made from two angle bars, each
angle bar forming one of the side walls and one of the end walls of the pile. These
two angle bars are bound together both transversely and longitudinally by cross
stretchers being made to engage in recesses at the top and bottom of the case or
frame of the pile. A bottom supporting bar and a top covering bar are used with the
modified pile last described.
This modification of our invention is represented in side elevation in Figure 7:
plan in Figure S, and end elevation in Figure 9 where the angle bar forming one of
the side walls and one of the end walls of the pile is marked h, h and the angle bar
forming the other side wall and end wall of the pile is marked i.i. The two angle
bars . h and i. i are bound together transversely and longitudinally by the two pairs
of cross stretchers k. k and l. the ends of which stretchers engage in recesses in the
top and bottom edges of the side walls of the case or frame of the pile as represented.
This pile is supported on the bottom supporting bar m and covered by the top
covering bar n. as represented in Figures 7 and 9.
Or we make an open ended box pile of four bars two bars forming the side walls
and two other bars the bottom supporting bar and the top covering bar of the box the
said four bars being bound together longitudinally and transversely by stretchers the
ends of which engage with the said four bars. As this pile is open ended, crossing
stretchers at each end taking into the side bars and top and bottom bars are used to
prevent the scrap with which the pile is filled from falling out of the box or case at
its ends.
An open ended pile constructed according to this part of our invention is repre-
sented in side elevation in Figure 10; end elevation in Figure 11 and plan in
Figure 12. This pile is constructed of the four bars marked respectively p, q, 7, 8,
the two bars p, q forming the side walls and the two bars, s the bottom supporting
bar and the top covering bar of the pile. The two side bars are bound together
transversely by means of the crossing stretchers t, t, t, at the top and bottom of the
said side bars and also by crossing stretchers u. ut at the middle of the ends of the
side bars p. ; and the top and bottom bars 7. 8 are bound together by means of
the end vertical stretchers v, vengaging with the top and bottom bars and also engaging
with the end crossing stretchers u, u the middle of each vertical stretcher being
recessed for that purpose (see the sectional part of Figure 10). The four
bars p, q, r, s are thus bound together longitudinally and transversely. The end
crossing stretchers u, v serve to prevent the scrap iron or steel with which the case or
box of the pile is filled from falling out of the case or box at its open ends. The box
or case is filled with scrap before the top and bottom bars r, s are bound together by
the vertical stretchers v, v.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we
claim as our invention of "Improvements in making box piles for the production of
blooms and bars and other forms of iron or steel or mixtures of iron and steel" ;-
First Making the side and end walls of the pile by bending a heated puddled bar
of iron or steel into a rectangular or nearly rectangular case or frame open at top

page_text: and bottom as herein before described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4'of the
accompanying drawings; or making the side and end walls of the pile by bending
heated puddled bars of iron or steel into half cases or frames joined edge to edge at
the middle of the pile as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figure 5; or
making the side walls and one of the end walls of the pile by bending a heated
puddled bar of iron or steel into a U-shaped case or frame as herein before described
and illustrated in Figure 6, the several cases or frames being used in combination
with a bottom supporting bar and a top covering bar, substantially as described and
illustrated.
Secondly--Making the side and end walls of the pile of two angle bars arranged
edge to edge and bound together by cross stretchers and the combination therewith
of a bottom supporting bar and a top covering bar substantially as bereinbefore
described and illustrated in Figures 7, 8 and 9 of the accompanying Drawings.
Thirdly Making the side and end walls of the pile, of four bars bound together
by horizontal and vertical stretchers substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in Figures 10, 11 and 12 of the accompanying Drawings.
DALCH
ums Deventh day of November 10.
JABEZ LONES.
CHARLES VERNON.
EDWARD HOLDEN.
RALPH BENNETT.
JABEZ LONES.
CHARLES VERNON.
EDWARD HOLDEN.
RALPH BENNETT.