Improved Treatment of Molten Iron or Steel.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5th June, 1895-Accepted. 24th Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Treatment of Molten Iron or Steel.
GEORGE LOVE Malton House Quebec County of Durham, Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of the invention is to improve the quality of the iron or steel
operated upon, by passing such iron or steel in a molten or liquid state, through a
revolving tube or cylinder; to carry my improvements into effect, I pass the
molten or liquid, iron or steel, through a revolving tube or cylinder so that it may;
by the motion of such revolving tube or cylinder, be churned or worked for the
purpose of toughening and improving the iron or steel so acted upon, the inner
surface of such revolving tube or cylinder may be so formed that it presents to
the molten or liquid iron or steel a corrugated or uneven surface for the better
churning or working such molten or liquid iron or steel in its passage through such
revolving tube or cylinder. In cases where it is found necessary to add to, or
maintain, the fluidity of the metal under treatment I introduce to the revolving
tube or cylinder a suitable carbonaceous material for the purpose of adding to, or
maintaining the fluidity of such metal. In cases where an impure metal is to be
operated upon, the revolving tube or cylinder may be formed of, or lined with,
such a material as, will take up and remove from the molten or liquid iron or steel
the impurity or impurities, and, or, a suitable material may be introduced into the
revolving tube or cylinder, so that it may be churned or worked with the liquid
metal for the purpose of removing the impurity or impurities.
Dated this 10th day of September 1894.
Improved Treatment of Molten Iron or Steel.
1 GEORGE LOVE of Malton House Quebec in the County of Durham,
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 has for its object to improve the iron or steel operated upon by
passing such iron or steel in a molten or liquid state through a revolving tube or
cylinder and in order that my invention may be well understood and carried into
practice I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accom-
panying drawings in which the application of this my invention is illustrated.
Similar letters of reference indicate corrosponding parts in all the figures, Figure 1
is a side elevation; Figure 2 is an end elevation; Figure 3 is a section ou the
line N. N.
In carrying my invention into practical effect 1 provide a revolving tube or
cylinder A. which may have a corrugated lining C. such tube or cylinder revolving
on the sheaves D and actuated by the gear B. through such revolving tube or
cylinder A. I cause to pass the molten or liquid iron or steel that it may by the
motion of such revolving tube or cylinder be churned or worked for the purpose of

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toughening and improving the quality of the iron or steel so acted upon.
inner surface of the revolving tube or cylinder may be so formed that it presents
to the molten iron or steel a corrugated or uneven surface for the better churning
or working such molten or liquid metal in its passage through the revolving tube
or cylinder. In cases where it is found necessary to add to, or to maintain the
fluidity of the metal under treatment I introduce to the revolving tube or cylinder
as a lining, as at C. or otherwise a suitable carbonaceous material (as graphite,
coke, carbon) for the purpose of adding to or maintaining the fluidity of such
metal. In cases where an impure metal is to be operated upon the revolving tube
or cylinder may be formed of, or may be lined with, as at C. such a material (as
lime, or lime, a salt of lime, fluor spar, chloride of sodium with carbon) as will take
up and remove from the molten or liquid iron or steel the impurity or impurities,
and, or, a suitable material (as chloride of sodium, fluor spar, lime, or a salt of
lime, together with, or, without carbon) may be introduced into the revolving tube
or cylinder by any suitable arrangement, so that it may be churned or worked with
the molten or liquid metal for the purpose of removing such impurity or impurities
from the metal.
I wish it to be clearly understood that I do not confine myself to this particular
form of tube or cylinder as it may be considerably modified without departing from
the essence of my invention.
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
The passing of iron or steel in a molten or liquid state through a revolving tube
or cylinder substantially as and for the purpose herein before described.
Dated this 4th day of June 1895
GEORGE LOVE.