IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING WASTE BOILER PLATES AND OTHER SIMILAR PLATES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF GUN BARRELS AND NAIL RODS." MANUFACTURE OF GUN BARRELS AND
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Rose, of Halesowen, in the County of
Worcester, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
TREATING WASTE BOILER PLATES AND OTHER SIMILAR PLATES FOR THE
MANUFACTURE OF GUN BARRELS AND NAIL RODS."
MANUFACTURE OF GUN BARRELS AND NAIL RODS."
Sealed the 31st May 1872, and dated the 12th March 1872.

page_text: My Invention is particularly applicable to boiler plates, but may also
be applied to other similar iron plates, such for example as the waste
plates of water tanks, and other vessels or articles made of plates of iron
rivetted together.
In treating the said plates according to my Invention I first
subject them to a rolling process by passing them between a pair of
cylindrical rolls. By this treatment the plates are flattened, and the
scale or oxide is in great part removed. I next clip the edges of the
plates by shears or a shearing machine, and thereby remove the marginal
portions in which the rivet holes had been made. I afterwards mark
upon and cut out from the plates treated as described portions of the
required size and shape to form "gun barrel moulds," that is, pieces of
from fivé to five and a half inches in breadth, and from twelve to
eighteen inches in length. I heat the said pieces or moulds to
redness, and by a rolling process bring them into a trough-like
form. By this means the remaining portions of oxide are removed
and the "mould” is brought into a fit state to be converted into a gun
barrel by the welding process. As this welding process and the sub-
sequent stages of the manufacture of the gun barrel are conducted in
the ordinary way, I do not think it necessary to describe the same.
When instead of gun barrels I wish to utilize the said plates by the
manufacture of nail rods therefrom, I treat the said plates by the rolling
and clipping processes herein-before described, and I cut therefrom pieces
of about the size herein-before described. I heat the said pieces to
redness and pass them through a pair of slitting rolls, whereby they
are slit or divided longitudinally by a series of parallel divisions, and
converted into rods suitable for the manufacture of nails.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Rose, Her special licence
that I, the said William Rose, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Rose, 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
IT TREATING WASTE BOILER PLATES AND OTHER SIMILAR PLATES FOR THE
MANUFACTURE OF GUN BARRELS AND NAIL RODS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Rose, 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.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Rose, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say :—
My Invention consists in treating the said plates by the process or
combination of processes herein-after described, whereby they may be
utilized, and gun barrels or nail rods made therefrom.
My Invention is particularly applicable to boiler plates, but may also
be applied to other similar iron plates, such for example as the waste
plates of water tanks, and other vessels or articles made of plates of iron
rivetted together.
In treating the said plates according to my Invention I first subject
them to a rolling process by passing them between a pair of cylindrical
rolls. By this treatment the plates are flattened, and the scale or oxide
is in great part removed. I next clip the edges of the plates by shears
or by a shearing machine, and thereby remove the marginal portions in

page_text: which the rivet holes had been made. I afterwards mark upon and cut
out from the plates treated as described, portions of the required size
and shape to form "gun barrel moulds," that is, pieces of from five to
five and a half inches in breadth, and from twelve to eighteen inches in
length. I heat the said pieces or moulds to redness, and by a rolling
process bring them into a trough-like form. By this means the remain-
ing portions of oxide are removed, and the "mould" is brought into
a fit state to be converted into a gun barrel by the welding process. As
this welding process and the subsequent stages of the manufacture of
the gun barrel are conducted in the ordinary way, I do not think it
necessary to describe the same.
When instead of gun barrels I wish to utilize the said plates by the
manufacture of nail rods therefrom, I treat the said plates by the
rolling and clipping processes herein-before described, and I cut there-
from pieces of about the size herein-before described. I heat the said
picces to redness, and pass them through a pair of slitting rolls, whereby
they are slit or divided longitudinally by a series of parallel divisions,
and converted into rods suitable for the manufacture of nails. Or
instead of treating waste boiler plates and other similar iron plates in
the manner described for the manufacture of gun barrels and nail rods
therefrom, the scrap or waste resulting from the manufacture of new
boiler plates may be utilized in a nearly similar manner,
that is to say,
the said scrap or waste is first rolled so as to flatten it, and from the
flattened
scrap or waste gun barrel moulds are cut, and afterwards rolled
into a trough form as previously described. Or the pieces cut from the
flattened scrap or waste are heated to redness, and slit or divided into
rods for the manufacture of nails.
As the rolls and shears or shearing mechanism and the cutting tools
which I employ in carrying my Invention into effect are of the ordinary
kinds, and constitute no part of my Invention, I do not think it necessary
to describe or to represent the same.
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, treating waste boiler plates and other similar
plates for the manufacture therefrom of gun barrels and nail rods by the

page_text: process or combination of processes herein-before described, that is to
say, by first flattening the said plates and partly removing the scale or
oxide therefrom, next removing the marginal portions in which the rivet
holes had been made, and finally cutting out from the plates so treated
moulds or pieces which are afterwards heated to redness and used in the
manufacture of gun barrels and nail rods, substantially as described,
also the manufacture of gun barrels and nail rods from scrap or waste
resulting from the manufacture of new boiler plates in the manner
herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Rose, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
WILLIAM ROSE. (L.S.)