An Improved Bogie or Carriage for the Conveyance of Iron or Steel Ingots, Slabs, or Piles from the Heating Furnace to the Rolling Mill, and for other like Purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 13th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 16th Oct., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Bogie or Carriage for the Conveyance of Iron or Steel
Ingots, Slabs, or Piles from the Heating Furnace to the Rolling
Mill, and for other like Purposes.
I, HENRY WILLIAM HOLLIS, General Manager of the Weardale Iron and Coal
Company, Limited, Tudhoe Ironworks, Spennymoor, in the County of Durham,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a bogie or carriage preferably constructed of metal
and adapted to run upon a railway or suitable guage the propelling power being
a locomotive or other suitable means. About the centre of the bogie and lying
across it from side to side is arranged an oblong frame provided with rollers upon
which the ingot, slal or pile is drawn from the furnace by hydraulic or other
power. This frame is adapted to tilt upon pivots which are placed slightly out
of the line of the centre of gravity of the frame, so that when it has been tilted
by the weight of the load carried the frame will return to its horizontal position
immediately upon the slipping off of the load. The ingot, slab or pile is drawn
upon the bogie a little beyond the centre line of the frame, so that its weight
overcomes the tendency of the frame to assume, and remain in, a horizontal
position, but the frame is prevented from immediately tilting and throwing off
the load by a hook, catch, or the like engaging a locking pin or other device on
the rising end of the frame; which hook, or the like, by means of an arm
carrying a roller running up an inclined plane, or in other ways, is withdrawn
from the locking pin or other device and releases the frame when the bogie
arrives at its destination: the frame then tilting up and assuming an inclined
position, which causes the ingot slab or pile to slip off and place itself in the
position required upon the live roller table or foreplate of the mill. When the
bogie is removed from this point the arm and roller or other device runs down
the inclined plane or is moved back and the hook or the like again engages with
the locking pin or other device and secures the tilting frame in a horizontal
position ready to receive the next load.
1000
An Improved Bogie or Carriage for the Conveyance of Iron or Steel
Ingots, Slabs, or Piles from the Heating Furnace to the Rolling
Mill, and for other like Purposes.
I, HENRY WILLIAM HOLLIS, General Manager of the Weardale Iron and Coal
Company Limited, Tudhoe Ironworks, Spennymoor, in the County of Durham,

page_text: 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 a bogie or carriage preferably constructed of metal
and adapted to run upon a railway of suitable guage (the propelling power being
a locomotive or other suitable means adapted to drive the bogie or carriage to
a point where it is desired to place the ingot slab pile or the like say to a rolling
mill) and to automatically, tilt and deliver its load at the predetermined point
the bogie or carriage being so arranged that after delivering its load it will tilt
back or reassume the position necessary for it to carry loads.
In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one form of bogie or carriago
constructed according to my invention. In these drawings
Fig. 1 is a plan.
Fig. 2 is a right hand side view.
Fig. 3 is an end view, and
Fig. 4 is a left hand side view.
As shown the bogie is provided with four wheels suitably carried on revolving
axles mounted in bearings attached to the body of the bogie.
About the centre of the bogie, and lying across it from side to side is arranged
an oblong frame a provided with rollers band supplementary rollers upon which
the ingot slab or pile is drawn from the furnace by hydraulic or other power.
This frame is adapted to tilt upon pivots c which are placed slightly' out of the
line of the centre of gravity of the frame, so that when it has been tilted by the
weight of the load carried the frame will return to its horizontal position
immediately upon the slipping off of the load.. To allow the frame, to tin in the
bogie the framework of the latter is dropped or is recessed as indicated by the
dotted line d and as shown in Fig. 4. The ingot slab or pile is drawn upon
the bogie a little beyond the centre line of the frame, so that its weight overcomes
the tendency of the frame to assume, and remain in, a 'horizontal position, but the
frame is prevented from immediately tilting. and throwing off the load by a
hook e, or the like which engages a pin f.or.other device on the rising end of the
frame; which hook, or the like, is attached to or forms part of an arm pivoted
ath to the framework of the bogie and carrying a roller which is adapted to
strike and run up an inclined plano j so that the hook is withdrawn from the
pin f and the frame is released when the bogie arrives at its destination (at which
point the incline j is situated,) the frame then tilting up and assuming an
inclined position, which causes the ingot slab or pile to slip off, and place itself
in the position required upon the live roller table or foreplate of the mill., When
the bogie is removed from this point the arm-g, and roller i runs down the inclined
plane or is moved back and the hook e or the like again engages with the pin f
and secures the tilting frame in a horizontal position ready to receive the next
load.
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The supplemental rollers as shown overhang the framework of the bogie
so that the ingot or the like is carried clear of the wheels or framework when it
is being slid off and the space between the supplemental rollers admits of the
disengagement of the tongs by which the ingot slab or pile is loaded on the truck.
It will be understood that my invention is not limited to the particular form
of disengaging gear shown as other simple forms may be used to answer the same
purpose.
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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:
1. A bogie or carriage having a roller frame pivotally carried therein and
adapted to tilt to deliver its load and to automatically resume its original position

page_text: and means for releasing the frame when the bogie reaches the desired point and
for relocking it substantially as described.
2. The improved bogie or carriage for the conveyance of iron or steel ingots
slabs or piles from the heating furnace to the rolling mill and for other like
purposes constructed substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated the 11th day of September 1897
For the Applicant,
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 and 56 Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent.