Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Compressing Scraps or Pieces of Metal into Forms for Remelting or other Use.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 9th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 8th July, 1887.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Compressing Scraps or
Pieces of Metal into Forms for Remelting or other Use.
I ROBERT EVANS of Copper House Foundry, Landore, in the county of Glamorgan,
Iron Founder do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to means for preparing bodies or masses of scraps of metal
for the furnace in order to their being remelted or reworked and the object is to
compress the scraps or pieces of metal into a condensed and consolidated form to
admit of their more readily being treated and handled.
For this purpose the scraps or pieces to the desired or regulated quantity are
brought into position to be operated upon between compressing and consolidating
surfaces so that a definite and comparatively uniform or regular form may be
successively given to a succession of quantities of the pieces of metal and for this
purpose for many uses, such for instance as scrap iron to be remelted for ultimate use
in making tinplate sheet, a globular form is most convenient and has the advantage of
being capable of delivery, or rolling itself, along inclined ways from the compressing
machine to the point of storage or further treatment but the shape may be varied to
requirements.
One form in which I apply my invention consists of a cylindrical horizontal
chamber or piston chamber in which a ram driven by hydraulic pressure, steam or
other means having a semi spherical concavity in its head; the inner end of the
piston chamber being correspondingly shaped so that a mass of metal scrap compressed
between will when released have acquired a ball form.
At a proper distance in the side or upper part of the cylinder is a feed opening
through which the insertion of successive quantities of scrap takes place and then the

page_text: pressure of the ram carries this quantity to the end and forms it, when the return
motion of the ram operates a trap or outlet door or hinged, falling, or sliding part
releasing the now compressed mass. The movement of the ram also further closes
this closing means ready for the next ball or other form of compressed metal.
Where the quantities to be operated are very large and the work is desired to be
expedited the piston may be duplicated and the ram head worked towards each other
and the piston or ram chamber may revolve to facilitate entrance and exit of the
successive quantities, or the number of these compressing parts may be further
increased.
Dated this 9th day of August 1886.

page_text: Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Compressing Scraps or
Pieces of Metal into Forms for Remelting or other Use.
I ROBERT EVANS of Copper House Foundry, Landore, in the County of Glamorgan,
Iron Founder 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
This invention relates to means for preparing bodies or masses of scraps of metal
for the furnace in order to their being remelted or reworked and the object is to
compress the scraps or pieces of metal into a condensed and consolidated form to
admit of their more readily being treated and handled.
For this purpose the scraps or pieces to the desired or regulated quantity are
brought into position to be operated upon between compressing and consolidating
surfaces so that a definite and comparatively uniform or regular form may be
successively given to a succession of quantities of the pieces of metal and for this
purpose for many uses, such for instance as scrap iron to be remelted for ultimate use
in making tin plate sheet, a globular form is most convenient and has the advantage
of being capable of delivery, or rolling itself, along inclined ways from the com-
pressing machine to the point of storage or further treatment, but the shape may be
varied to requirements.
One form in which I apply my invention consists of a cylindrical horizontal
chamber or piston chamber in which a ram driven by hydraulic pressure, steam or
other means having a semi spherical concavity in its head; the inner end of the
piston chamber being correspondingly shaped so that a mass of scrap metal compressed
between will when released have acquired a ball form. At a proper distance in the
side or upper part of the cylinder is a feed opening through which the insertion of
successive quantities of scrap takes place and then the pressure of the ram carries this
quantity to the end and forms it when the return motion of the ram operates a
trap or outlet door or hinged, falling, or sliding part releasing the now compressed
The movement of the ram also further closes this closing means ready for the
next ball or other form of compressed metal.
mass.
Where the quantities to be operated upon are very large and the work is desired to
be expedited the piston may be duplicated and the ram heads worked towards each
other and the piston or ram chamber may revolve to facilitate entrance and exit of
the successive quantities, or the number of these compressing parts may be further
increased.

page_text: In the drawing A is the barrel or cylinder of the compressor A¹ counter thrust rods
thereto B is a plunger B¹ the plunger rod affixed to and driving the plunger B as it
is actuated by a steam engine or other power C is the head or end piece of the
cylinder which may be removable and replaceable by a substitute former or end
shaped to vary shape of formed lump of scrap and the end B' of the plunger B may
be removable and replaceable or another shaped plunger substituted D is the opening
or hopper for supply of scrap as required E is the trap door or exit for the shaped
scrap operated by a lever F having its fulcrum at F¹ and operated by an extension F
timed to operate with the plunger B and to open as soon as that plunger having
crushed the ball of scrap to shape has commenced its return stroke G indicates
in broken lines a mass of scrap ready to be acted on by the plunger. The broken
and dotted lines H H H indicate a ball of compressed scrap in successive positions
viz. the ball as compressed; the ball as released from its compressed position and
ready to fall through the trap when opened and the ball passing away from the open
trap when in the position shewn by the dotted lines F³.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
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The arrangement and combination of parts of apparatus for compressing scraps or
pieces of metal into forms for remelting or other use as set forth.
Deted the 0th day of Mov 1807
WM. BROOKES & SON,
35 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.