IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR ROLLING HOOP AND OTHER IRON AND STEEL
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Matthews, of Seedley, Pendleton, in the
County of Lancaster, Iron Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR ROLLING HOOP AND OTHER IRON AND
STEEL."
Sealed the 1st June 1875, and dated the 25th March 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Matthews at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 25th March 1875.
I, GEORGE MATTHEWS, of Seedley, Pendleton, in the County of Lan-
caster, Iron Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR ROLLING HOOP AND OTHER
IRON AND STEEL," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in an improved arrangement of the rolls and in
a system of guides for conveying the hoop or other iron or steel from one
set of rolls to the other, these two parts of my Invention may be used
separately or combined.

page_text: In carrying out my Invention I make use of two pairs of rolls placed
by preference above each other and provided with grooves of the
requisite shapes, these two pairs of rolls are united by guides which
convey the hoop or other iron or steel from the coarser grooves in the
upper rolls to the finer grooves in the lower rolls and from thence to the
flat part of the upper rolls, or to other grooves until the rolling is com-
pleted, by this means manual labour is greatly economised as the iron or
steel is conveyed from one pair of rolls to the other by self-acting
guides.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Matthews in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 23rd September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
MATTHEWS, of Seedley, Pendleton, in the County of Lancaster, Iron
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George Matthews, Her special
licence that I, the said George Matthews, my executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Matthews, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agrec 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 MACHINERY FOR ROLLING HOOP AND OTHER IRON AND STEEL," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Matthews, 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

page_text: Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Matthews, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say):-
My Invention consists in an improved arrangement of the rolls, and
in a system of guides for conveying the hoop or other iron or steel from
one set of rolls to the other; these two parts of my Invention may be
used separately or combined.
In carrying out my Invention I make use of two pairs of rolls placed
by preference above each other, and provided with grooves of the
-requisite shapes; these two pairs of rolls are united by guides which
convey the hoop or other iron or steel from the coarser grooves in the
upper rolls to the finer grooves in the lower rolls, and from thence to.
the flat part of the upper rolls or to other grooves until the rolling is
completed. By this means manual labour is greatly economised, as the
iron or steel is conveyed from one pair of rolls to the other by self-acting.
guides.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation, I will proceed to describe the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, reference being had to the figures and letters marked
thereon.
Fig. 1 is an end view, and Fig. 2, a front elevation of my improved
machinery for rolling iron and steel; Fig. 3 is a detached view of part
of the same.
a, a, are the standards for the driving pinions, b, b, and c, c, are the
standards for the two pairs of rolls d, d, and e, e, which revolve in
chucks supported by the standards c, c. The axles of the rolls are
connected to the axles of the driving pinions by the ordinary coupling
boxes f,f.
The guides for conveying the iron or steel from one pair of rolls to the
other are constructed in the following manner:-Each of the inner
segments is bolted to the bars h, and these, bars are secured to the
I

page_text: And, Secondly. The self-acting guides for conveying the bar of flat or
hoop iron or steel from one pair of rolls to another, as shewn and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Matthews, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Twenty-second day of September, One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
GEORGE MATTHEWS. (L.S.)