An Improvement or Improvements in the Manufacture of Buffer Iron or Steel for the Buffer Barrels or Cylinders of Railway Carriages, Trucks, and Wagons.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 22nd May, 1897-Accepted, 26th June, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement or Improvements in the Manufacture of Buffer
Iron or Steel for the Buffer Barrels or Cylinders of Railway
Carriages, Trucks, and Wagons.
We, JABEZ LONES and EDWARD HOLDEN trading as Lones, Vernon and Holden
of Sandwell Iron and Axle Works Smethwick in the County of Stafford Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to produce rolled bars or lengths of wrought iron
or steel, commonly called buffer iron or steel from which the buffer barrels or
cylinders of railway carriages, trucks and wagons are made, of such a sectional
figure that the base plate is made solid or in one piece with the body of the barrel
or cylinder instead of being made separately and welded to the said barrel or
cylinder as usual.
In making buffer iron or steel according to our invention for the manufacture
of buffer barrels having conical bodies, we take a thick heated slab or bloom of
wrought iron or steel and by a series of rolling operations effected in grooved rolls
we produce a long bar or plate having a width equal or nearly equal to the length
of the buffer barrel or cylinder to be made, the said bar having in cross section
the following figure. One face of the bar is plain and the other face of the bar,
which face in the finished buffer barrel is to form the outside of the said barrel,
has along one of its edges or marginal parts a bulbous projection and along its
opposite edge or marginal part a nearly right angled flange. The plain side of the
buffer iron or steel has a set off or shoulder near the bulbous end of the bar.
The sides of the buffer iron or steel between the said shoulder and the flange may
either be parallel or slightly inclined to one another.
The long rolled bar of the kind described is divided transversely by sawing or
otherwise into lengths suitable for the production of buffer barrels and from each of
the said cut off lengths a buffer barrel having a conical body is made by coiling
and fashioning the said length into a tubular figure and welding its ends together.
When the buffer iron or steel has been thus made into a barrel, the bulbous
part at one edge of the buffer iron or steel constitutes the rim at the outer side
of the mouth of the buffer barrel and the flange at the other edge of the buffer
iron or steel forms the base plate by which the buffer barrel is attached to the
railway carriage truck or wagon.
Buffer barrels of a cylindrical figure may be manufactured from buffer iron or
steel made according to our invention.
Dated this Second day of September 1896.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: An Improvement or Improvements in the Manufacture of Buffer
Iron or Steel for the Buffer Barrels or Cylinders of Railway
Carriages, Trucks, and Wagons.
We JABEZ LONES and EDWARD HOLDEN, trading as Lones, Vernon and Holden
of Sandwell Iron and Axle Works, Smethwick, in the County of Stafford Manufacturers
do hereby declare the nature of our invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of our invention is to produce rolled bars or lengths of wrought iron or
steel, commonly called buffer iron or steel, from which the buffer barrels or cylinders
of railway carriages, trucks and wagons are made, of such a sectional figure that
the base plate is made solid or in one piece with the body of the barrel or cylinder
instead of being made separately and welded to the said barrel or cylinder as usual.
In making buffer iron or steel according to our invention for the manufacture of
buffer barrels having conical bodies, we take a thick heated slab or bloom of wrought
iron or steel, and by a series of rolling operations effected in grooved rolls, we
produce a long bar or plate having a width equal or nearly equal to the length of
the buffer barrel or cylinder to be made the said bar having in cross section the
following figure. One face of the bar is plain and the other face of the bar, which
face in the finished buffer barrel is to form the outside of the said barrel, has along
one of its edges or marginal parts, a bulbous projection and along its opposite edge
or marginal part a nearly right angled flange. The plain side of the buffer iron or
steel has a set off or shoulder near the bulbous end of the bar. The sides of the
buffer iron or steel between the said shoulder and the flange may either be parallel
or slightly inclined to one another.
The long rolled bar of the kind described is divided by oblique cuts by sawing
or otherwise into lengths suitable for the production of buffer barrels and from each
of the said cut off lengths a buffer barrel having a conical body is made by coiling
and fashioning the said length into a tubular figure and welding its ends together.
When the buffer iron or steel has been thus made into a barrel, the bulbous part
at one edge of the buffer iron or steel constitutes the rim at the outer side of the
mouth of the buffer barrel and the flange at the other eige of the buffer iron or steel
forms the base plate by which the buffer barrel is attached to the railway carriage
truck or wagon.
Buffer barrels of a cylindrical figure may be manufactured from buffer iron or steel
made according to our invention.
We will first describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the production
of buffer iron or steel for the manufacture of buffer barrels having a conical figure,
and the grooved rolls employed in rolling the said buffer iron or steel.
We take a thick heated slab or bloom of iron or steel and pass it through the groove a
of the preparing grooved rolls represented in Figure 1 so as to produce a bar or
plate having the sectional form represented in Figure 2. The bar Figure 2 is next
passed in succession through the grooves b and c of the rolls Figure 1 so as to
produce a bar having the sectional form represented in Figure 3 and afterwards a
bar having the sectional form represented in Figure 4, the said bar being passed
through the groove e in a vertical position. The bar represented in Figure 4 is next
passed in an inclined position in succession through the grooves d, e and f of the
rolls Figure 1 so as to produce, first, the bar represented in Figure 5; next that
represented in Figure 6 and afterwards that represented in Figure 7. The prepared

page_text: bar Figure 7 is next taken to the finishing rolls having grooves of the kind represented
in Figure 8 and the said bar Figure 7 is passed in an inclined position in
succession through the finishing grooves g, h, of the rolls Figure 8. There is
thereby produced, first, the bar represented in Figure 9; next that represented in
Figure 10, and finally the finished buffer iron or steel represented in Figure 11.
The finished length of buffer iron or stel Figure 11 is plain on the face of the
bar which forms the inside of the buffer barrel but the other face of the bar
which forms the outside of the buffer barrel, has along one of its edges, the
bulbous projection y and along its opposite edge, a nearly right angled flange r.
It will be seen that the plain side of the buffer iron or steel has a set off or
shoulder at m and the sides of the buffer iron or steel between the shoulder m and
the nearly right angled flanger may either be parallel as represented, or slightly
inclined to one another. The long rolled bar Figure 11 is divided by inclined
cuts p, with bevil or straight edges into lengths suitable for the production of
buffer barrels having a conical figure, the said lengths of buffer iron or steel
being coiled into a tubular figure and their ends welded together as represented
in the finished buffer barrel represented in elevation and section in Figure 12. The
bulbous part of the buffer iron or steel (Figure 11) made in the manner described
into a barrel, constitutes the rim q2 of the buffer barrel and the flange at the
other edge of the buffer iron or steel forms the base plate by which the buffer
barrel is attached to the railway vehicle. The base plate of the buffer barrel is
thus made solid or in one piece with the body of the said barrel, instead of being
made separately and welded to the said barrel as usual.
In making buffer iron or steel for the manufacture of cylindrical buffer barrels,
we use the preparing grooved rolls represented in Figure 13 and the finishing
grooved rolls represented in Figure 14 for rolling the buffer iron or steel.
We take the thick heated slab or bloom of iron or steel and pass it in succession
through the-grooves 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the preparing rolls Figure 13 so as
first to produce a bar having the sectional figure represented in Figure 15, followed
by bars having the sectional figures represented in Figures 16, 17, 18 and 19.
The bar Figure 19 is next passed in succession through the grooves 6, 7, 8, 9
and 10 of the finishing pair of rolls Figure 14, so as to produce in succession bars
having respectively. the sectional figures represented in Figures 20, 21, 22, 23
and 24. The buffer iron or steel Figure 24 thus produced has nearly the sectional
figure of the buffer iron or steel Figure 11 used for the manufacture of conical
buffer barrels, excepting that the base flange is at right angles to the body part
of the buffer iron or steel instead of nearly at right angles thereto and the bar
near the base flange is thickened. The buffer iron or steel Figure 24 is divided by
oblique cuts with bevil or straight edges into lengths, as indicated in dotted lines,
and the cut off pieces are coiled and fashioned into cylinders and their ends welded
together to form cylindrical buffer barrels of the kind illustrated in Figure 25, the
buffer iron or steel Figure 24 and the cylindrical buffer barrel Figure 25 being
marked with the same letters of reference as corresponding parts of the buffer iron
or steel Figure 11 and the conical buffer barrel Figure 12.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim as our invention of "An improvement or improvements in the
manufacture of buffer iron or steel for the buffer barrels or cylinders of railway
carriages, trucks and wagons"; -
Rolling buffer iron or steel having substantially the sectional form represented in
Figure 11 or that represented in Figure 24 of the accompanying drawings; that is
to say, buffer iron or steel having in addition to the bulbous projection on one of its
edges, from which bulbous projection the rim of the finished buffer barrel or
cylinder is made, a right angled or nearly right angled flange at the opposite edge
of and on the same face of the buffer iron or steel, the said flange forming in the
finished buffer barrel or cylinder the base plate by which it is attached to the

page_text: railway carriage, truck or wagon, the rolling operations for the production of the said
buffer iron or steel being conducted in the manner and by the use of the grooved rolls
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the Thirteenth day of May 1897.
JABEZ LONES.
EDWARD HOLDEN.