Improvements in the Manufacture of Rolled Wire and in the Means or Apparatus Employed therein.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 16th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 12th Feb., 1889
Improvements in the Manufacture of Rolled Wire and in the Means
or Apparatus Employed therein.
CHARLES HILL MORGAN of Worcester in the County of Worcester and State
of Massachusetts one of the United States of America, Mechanical Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
These improvements are designed to enable portions of the improved system of
producing wire from rod described in the Provisional Specification of the Application
for Patent of John Ferguson Haskins No. 9135 dated 28th June 1887 to be adapted
with modifications and additions to be combined with portions of existing plant or
plant designed on the present system known commonly as the Belgian system of wire
rolling, which system is characterised by the employment of heating furnaces in which
the billets are suitably heated and conveyed to rolls wherein they are passed to and
forth the requisite number of passes and then continuously travel from one diminishing
set of rolls to another to the desired extent and then the resultant wire is wound into
coils for stowage. These present sets of rolls subsequent to the primary rolls are
generally arranged in two or other number of series side by side and the rod in
course of attenuation is passed between one set out to a semi-circular partially open
guide channel or repeater" whereby the course of travel of the wire is turned back
and by a suitable guide correctly entered into an adjoining set of rolls and 50 on
throughout the series. Much exposure takes place in working on this system and a
number of hands are employed to control the constantly extending wire rod as well
as considerable expenditure of power and waste of space with other disadvantages.
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According to my present invention I employ the ordinary furnaces for heating the
billets which I then preferably convey to the primary rolls by overhead or telegraph
railways and convey into and through to and forth the desired number of times thence
into and between the succeeding passes of adjoining rolls of the aforesaid Belgian
kind thence to another series from one to the other continuously in order to partially
reduce the billet and then further reduce the wire-rods preferably turning back the
wire rod from its forward course to the next adjoining rolls for the succession of

page_text: passes by repeaters before passing the wire rod to the train of wire rolling rolls
according to my invention until the point where usual shears or cutting or trimming
means are located for cutting off as required the ends of the rod, then the wire rod
is caused to pass from the last ordinary rolls into a channel conveyor having inclined
diminishing walls and area and of considerable length whereby the wire rod is
conveyed to the train of wire rolling rolls arranged much as in the said former
invention, each set or pair of rolls being mounted on suitable axes driven by suitable
gearing from a main driving axis, said rolls being arranged in line so as successively
to receive, act upon and pass the wire rod from one to the next in the series and all
being suitably arranged and timed relatively to correctly operate to the desired end
and from the last of this train the wire is by a suitable swivel device directed to one
or other of a pair or series of reels and reeling machinery upon which the wire is
wound, discharged and conveyed away by suitable holding and conveying means.
Said swivel device for guiding the wire sections to the selected fixed conducting
channel interposed between said device and the reel or reels for entry on the reeling
machine for which said guide is the conductor, is, in practice, provided with suitable
handle lever or other suitable means for operating it.
Many descriptions of reels are available but I prefer such reeling mechanism as is
described in the said former specification.
Dated the 17th 1
1009
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: or Apparatus Employed therein.
I, CHARLES HILL MORGAN of Worcester in the County of Worcester and State
of Massachusetts one of the United States of America, Mechanical 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:-
These improvements are designed to enable portions of the improved system of
producing wire from rod described in the specification of Letters Patent granted to
John Ferguson Haskins No. 9135 dated 28th June 1887 to be adapted with
modifications and additions to be combined with portions of existing plant or plant
designed on the present system known commonly as the Belgian system of wire
rolling, which system is characterised by the employment of heating furnaces in which
the billets are suitably heated and conveyed to rolls wherein they are passed to and
forth the requisite number of passes and then continuously travel from one diminishing
sets of rolls to another to the desired extent and then the resultant wire is wound
into coils for stowage. These present sets of rolls subsequent to the primary rolls
are generally arranged in two or other number of series side by side and the rod in
course of attenuation is passed between one set out to a semi-circular partially open
guide channel or repeater" whereby the course of travel of the wire is turned back
and by a suitable guide correctly entered into an adjoining set of rolls and so on
throughout the series. Much exposure takes place in working on this system and a
number of hands are employed to control the constantly extending wire rod as well
as considerable expenditure of power and waste of space with other disadvantages.
"
According to my present invention I employ the ordinary furnaces for heating the
billets which may be represented by AA which I then preferably convey to the
primary rolla B by overhead or telegraph railways and convey into and through to
and forth the desired number of times thence into and between the succeeding passes
of adjoining rolls B2 of the aforesaid Belgian kind thence to other of a series as
C1, C2, C3, from one to the other of those selected for use continuously in order to
partially reduce the billet and then further reduce the wire-rods preferably turning
back the wire rod, the course of which is indicated by the dotted line D, from its
forward course say from its exit from roll C¹ to the next adjoining roll C² and in like
nanner from roll C to roll C' if such is used and from C to C for the succession of
passes by repeaters such as shewn at E before passing the wire rod to the train of
wire rolling rolls H according to my invention until the point where usual shears or
cutting or trimming means are located (at about the point G) for cutting off as
required the ends of the rod, then the wire rod is caused to pass from the last ordinary
rolls, as C, into a channel conveyer F having inclined diminishing walls and
diminishing area towards its delivery end F¹ said guide trough F as will be seen

page_text: being of considerable length whereby the wire rod is conveyed to the train of wire
rolling rolls H arranged and operating much as in the said former invention, each set
or pair of rolls h, h³, h², 13, 14, 15, ho, h', he and h' being mounted respectively on suitable
axes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 driven by suitable gearing i, i, i from a main driving
axis K on which is mounted a driving pulley driven by band indicated by dotted
lines; said rolls h, h¹‚ h², h³, hª, hª‚hº‚ h³‚³‚h being arranged in line so as successively
to receive act upon and pass the wire rod from one to the next in the series and all
being suitably arranged and timed relatively to correctly operate to the desired end
and from the last roll, as h³, of this train the wire is by a suitable swivel device m
directed to the one n or the other n¹ of a pair of guide ways leading to a pair or
series of reels o, o¹, and reeling machinery upon which the wire may be wound, dis-
charged and conveyed away by suitable holding and conveying means. Said swivel
device m for guiding the wire sections to the selected fixed conducting channel n or n¹
interposed between said device m and the reel o or reels for entry on the reeling
machine for which said guide is the conductor, is, in practice, provided with suitable
handle lever or other suitable means for operating it.
The figure is severed on the line - for convenience of arrangement on the
sheets.
Many descriptions of reels are available but I prefer such reeling mechanism as is
described in the said former specification.
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:
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1. The improved manufacture of rolled wire by heating the billets then rolling the
same by passing to and fro in primary rolls, and in succeeding rolls arranged according
to the Belgian" system and thence to other series entering the wire continuously by
guides or repeaters through adjoining rolls from which by means of a channel
conductor the wire rod so produced is diminished in thickness by a series or train of
wire rolling rolls H from which said rolls the wire is distributed to reeling machinery
all substantially as set forth.
2. The combination or arrangement and use of successive rolling plant according
to the "Belgian" system with a channel conveyor and a train of wire rolling rolls
having distributing devices for diverting supply of wire as set forth.
Dated the 15th day of November 1888.
Dated the 15th day of November 1888.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.