IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON RODS, AND IN MACHINERY TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE SAID MANufacture
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Taylor, of Lawton Iron Works, Shiffnal, in
the County of Salop, Iron Master, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON RODS, AND IN MACHINERY TO BE EMPLOYED IN
THE SAID MANufacture."
Sealed the 1st December 1863, and dated the 11th September 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on tho
11th September 1863.
1, WILLIAM TAYLOR, of Lawton Iron Works, Shiffnal, in the County of
Salop, Iron Master, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON RODS, AND IN MACHINERY TO BE
EMPLOYED IN THE SAID MANUFACTURE," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in manufacturing iron rods by the arrangement of
rolling machinery herein-after described, by which arrangement the heated
pieces of iron cut from the billets are rapidly and economically reduced to the
diameter required for the manufacture of wire, and for other purposes.
My Invention is especially applicable to the manufacture of wire rods, and
the kind of rods called guide iron, but my Invention may also be applied to
the manufacture of all kinds of rods of iron. In the ordinary manufacture of
wire rods and guide iron the short pieces of iron cut from the billets being
heated are first passed through a set of three rolls, the middle roll making a
set both, with the upper and lower rolls. The said set of rolls are commonly
called three high rolls. These rolls are provided with alternate elliptical and
angular grooves of progressively decreasing size. The piece of iron is passed

page_text: through one of the grooves in the lower pair of rolls, and back again through
one of the grooves in the upper pair of rolls, and so on until the iron has been
passed through the number of grooves to reduce it to the size required. The
iron is next passed through a pair of rolls having oval grooves in them, and
finally through a pair of rolls having cylindrical grooves in them. Wire rods
or guide iron or rods for other purposes are thus produced of the required
diameter.
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In arranging rolling machinery according to my Invention for the manu-
facture of wire rods and other rods I place at a short distance from the
set of high rolls herein-before described and parallel thereto another set of
three, or high rolls, the grooves in the last-mentioned set of rolls being
opposite those in the first-mentioned set. The second set of rolls I will
berein-after call the supplementary set of rolls. The grooves in the supple-
mentary set of rolls are somewhat smaller in size than those in the first set
.of rolls opposite to which they are situated. Between the two sets of rolls
troughs or guides are fixed, the said. troughs or guides connecting each of the
grooves in the ordinary set of rolls with. those in the supplementary set
opposite to which they are situated. The heated length of iron is first passed
through one of the grooves in the lower pair of rolls of the ordinary set, and
by means of the trough or guide at the back of the said rolls the length of
iron is passed into and through one of the grooves in the lower pair of rolls
of the supplementary set. The iron is then passed back through one of the
grooves in the upper pair of rolls of the said supplementary set, and by means
of the trough or guide through one of the grooves in the upper pair of rolls
of the ordinary set. The iron is passed. backwards and forwards through the
two sets of rolls until the iron has been passed through the grooves in the
said sets of rolls. The iron is finished by being next passed through a pair of
rolls having oval grooves, and finally through a pair of rolls having cylindrical
grooves, as in the ordinary method of manufacture already described. The two
sets of three high rolls are driven by three toothed wheels, one of the said
wheels being situated on the fly wheel shaft, and the other two on the pinion
shafts of the said sets of rolls. .
By arranging rolling machinery according to my Invention I am able to
roll the rods of greater length than they can be rolled by the ordinary
arrangement, and nearly double the quantity of the said rods can be rolled by
the use of my Invention than can be rolled in the same time by the ordinary
arrangement with the same or nearly the same expenditure of motive power.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th March 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
TAYLOR, of Lawton Iron Works, Shiffnal, in the County of Salop, Iron
Master, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Taylor, Her special licence that I, the said William Taylor,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON RODS, AND IN MACHINERY TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE SAID
MANUFACTURE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Taylor, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my;
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Taylor, do hereby declaro
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in manufacturing iron rods by the arrangement of
rolling machinery herein-after described, by which arrangement the heated
pieces of iron cut from the billets are rapidly and economically reduced to
the diameter or size required for the manufacture of wire, and for other
purposes.
My Invention is especially applicable to the manufacture of wire rods and
the kind of rods called guide iron, but my 'Invention may also be applied to
the manufacture of all kinds of rods of iron. In the ordinary manufacture of
wire rods and guide iron the short pieces of iron cut from the billets being

page_text: heated are first passed through a set of three rolls, the middle roll making a
set both with the upper and lower rolls. The said set of rolls are commonly
called three high rolls. These rolls are provided with alternate elliptical and
angular grooves of progressively decreasing size. The piece of iron is passed
through one of the grooves in the lower pair of rolls, and back again through
one of the grooves in the upper pair of rolls, and so on until the iron has been
passed through the proper number of grooves to reduce it to the size required.
The iron is next passed through a pair of rolls having oval grooves in them,
and finally through a pair of rolls having cylindrical grooves in them or other
shaped grooves as may be required. Wire rods, or guide iron or rods for
other purposes, are thus produced of the required diameter or size.
In arranging rolling machinery according to my Invention for the manu-
facture of wire rods and other rods I place at a short distance from the set of
three high rolls, berein-before described, and parallel thereto, another set of
three high rolls, the grooves in the last-mentioned set of rolls being opposite
those in the first-mentioned set. The second set of rolls I will herein-after
call the supplementary set of rolls. The grooves in the supplementary set of
rolls are somewhat smaller in size than those in the first set of. rolls opposite
to which they are situated. Between the two set of rolls troughs or guides
are fixed, the said troughs or guides connecting each of the grooves in the
first set of rolls with those in the supplementary set opposite to which they
are situated. The heated length of iron is first passed through one of the
grooves in the lower pair of rolls of the first set, and by means of the trough
or guide at the back of the said rolls the length of iron is passed into and
through one of the grooves in the lower pair of rolls of the supplementary
The iron is then passed back through one of the grooves in the upper
pair of rolls of the said supplementary set, and by means of the trough or
guide through one of the grooves in the upper pair of rolls of the first set.
The iron is passed backwards and forwards through the two sets of rolls until
the iron has been passed through the proper number of grooves in the said
sets of rolls. The iron is finished by being next passed through a pair of
rolls having oval grooves, and finally through a pair of rolls having cylindrical
or other grooves, as in the ordinary method of manufacture already described.
The two sets of three high rolls are driven by three toothed wheels, one of
the said wheels being situated on the fly wheel shaft and the other two on the
pinion shafts of the said sets of rolls. As the supplementary or second set of
three high rolls which I employ in carrying my Invention into effect differ
only in respect to the size of the grooves from an ordinary set of three high
rolls, I do not consider it necessary to represent the said rolls, or to further
set.

page_text: describe them, as I believe the nature of my Invention and the manner in
which the same is to be performed will be readily understood by the descrip-
tion herein-before given.
By arranging rolling machinery according to my Invention I am able to
roll the rods of greater length than they can be rolled by the ordinary arrange-
ment, and nearly double the quantity of the said rods can be rolled by the
use of my Invention than can be rolled in the same time by the ordinary
arrangement with the same or nearly the same expenditure of motive power.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of my Invention, but I claim as my
Invention,
Firstly, the improvements in the manufacture of iron rods herein-before
described, that is to say, manufacturing the said rods by the use of the
machinery, and in the manner herein-before described, whereby the rods can
be rolled quicker and of greater length than by the ordinary process.
Secondly, the improvements in machinery for rolling iron rods herein-before
described, that is to say, combining or arranging parallel with the ordinary
set of three high rolls a supplementary or second set of three high rolls, the
grooves in the said two sets of rolls being connected together by troughs or
guides, by which troughs or guides the iron to be rolled is conducted from one
set of rolls to the other.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Taylor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
WILLIAM TAYLOR. (L.S.)
Witness,
JOSHUA BEDDARD.