Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1888
"Complete Left, 19th June, 1888
Complete Accepted, 20th July, 1888
We, DAVID EVANS, Manager Barrow Hematite Steel Co. Lmd., Barrow in Furness,
and ARTHUR HARRISON, Engineer, Barrow in Furness do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to apparatus whereby plates, rails, girders or other forms
undergoing rolling are transferred from one set of rolls to another set in the same
line with them.
For this purpose, we mount the receiving table which is provided with rollers as
usual and which may incline upwards from the rolls, upon two trucks to which the
table is connected by perch pins, each of these trucks having a pair of wheels set at
an angle so that the truck can run in a circular path along the floor of the rolling
mill. In a line midway between the two sets of rolls and at right angles to their axes
we provide two vertical shafts projecting above the mill floor, the distance apart of
those two shafts being equal to the distance between the perch pins of the two trucks
above mentioned. On the vertical shafts under the floor. are chain wheels connected
by a chain so that they turn equably together, one of the shafts being driven in the
one or the other direction by chain or other gear worked by a pair of horizontal
hydraulic cylinders situated beneath the floor. Each of the vertical shafts has a
As the
horizontal radial arm projecting from it and attached to one of the trunks.
shafts.are made to turn half round equably together, their two arms sweep the trucks
round in semi-circular paths and these carry the table always parallel to itself from its
position facing the one set of rolls to a position facing the other set. Thus metal
received on the table from the one set of rolls is transferred by the table to be fed to
the other set..
000
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants...

page_text: We, DAVID EVANS Manager Barrow Hermatite Steel Co. Lind. Barrow in Furness
and ARTHUR HARRISON Engineer Barrow in Furness 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:-
Our invention relates to apparatus whereby plates, rails, girders or other forms
undergoing rolling are transferred from one set of rolls to another set in the same line
with them.
For this purpose, we mount the receiving table, which is provided with rollers as
usual and which may incline upwards from the rolls, upon two trucks to which the
table is connected by perch pins, each of these trucks having a pair of wheels set at
an angle, so that the truck can run in a circular path along the floor of the rolling,
mill. In a line midway between the two sets of rolls and at right angles to their axes
we provide two vertical shafts projecting above the mill floor the distance apart of
those two shafts being equal to the distance between the perch pins of the two trucks
above mentioned. On the vertical shafts under the floor are chain wheels connected
by a chain so that they turn equably together, one of the shafts being driven in the
one or the other direction by chain or other gear worked by a pair of horizontal
hydraulic cylinders situated beneath the floor. Each of the vertical shafts has a
horizontal radial arm projecting from it and attached to one of the trucks. As the
shafts are made to turn half round equably together, their two arms sweep the trucks
round in semi-circular paths, and these carry the table always parallel to itself from
its position facing the one set of rolls to a position facing the other set. Thus metal
received on the table from the one set of rolls is transferred by the table to be fed to
the other set.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a plan and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section.
of apparatus according to our invention applied to two sets of rolls A and B having
their axes in the same straight line or nearly so. C is the moveable table which has
jointed to it by vertical perch pins two trucks D D¹. These trucks have wheels a set
at an angle so that each truck can run in a circular path along the mill floor. Each
truck D D is rigidly connected by an arm E E' with a vertical shaft F F. The two
shafts FF have fixed on them chain wheels connected by a chain G, and one of the
shafts has fixed on it another chain wheel from which a chain passes round
pullies H H mounted on the plungers of two hydraulic cylinders K K The chain
wheels and hydraulic cylinders are situated in a space formed under the floor of the
mill, the floor over this space being as shown in Fig. 1 supposed to be removed to
show the apparatus below. When it is desired to transfer metal lodged on the table C
from the one set of rolls B to the other set A, the valves of the hydraulic cylinders KK'
are shifted so that the plunger of the pulley H is caused to protrude whilst that of H'
retreats.

page_text: The shafts F F are thus caused to make a half revolution and the arms E E' sweep
the trucks D D round in semi-circular paths, thus transferring the table C, moving
parallel to itself, to the position indicated by the dotted lines C facing the rolls A.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
Apparatus for transferring metal from one set of rolls to another, consisting of the
metal carrying table mounted by perch pins on a pair of trucks at the ends of two
radial arms which by means of chain gear worked hydraulically are caused to sweep
the trucks round in semi circular paths, thus transferring the table from a position
facing the one set of rolls to a position facing the other set substantially as described
and illustrated by the drawings.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.