Im- PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR ROLLING BARS FOR THE MANUFACTURe of 20 TT
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Miller and Benjamin Wilson Raine,
both of the Firm of George Miller and Company, of the City and
County of Durham, Manufacturers, for the Invention of "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR ROLLING BARS FOR THE MANUFACTURe of
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Miller and
Benjamin Wilson Raine at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 26th August 1874.
We, GEORGE MILLER and BENJAMIN WILSON RAINE, both of the
Firm of George Miller and Company, of the City and County of Durham,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR ROLLING BARS FOR THE MANUFACTURE
OF SHOES FOR HOrses and other Hoofed Animals,” to be as follows :—
The object of our Invention is to roll iron or other metal bars of such
an irregular form or section that by simply cutting them into proper

page_text: lengths and bending them they may be converted into shocs with solid
heels and toes for horses and other hoofed animals.
: The machinery by which we carry out our Invention consists of a
pair of rolls which may be mounted in the ordinary guide mill standards
in the same manner as rolls for the usual sections of iron, such as rounds,
flats, and squares, and which rolls we construct in the following manner,
that is to say: We take two metal rolls, and in one of them, by pre-
ference the lower one, we carve or turn the form or section of the
under side of the iron required, and upon the upper roll we form or
fasten a hoop or ring of steel or other hard metal, and which hoop or
ring we reduce by carving or turning until its outer circumference is of
such a length that one revolution of the roll will impress exactly so
much of the bar as will make one, two, or more shoes, as may be found
practicable. The face or periphery of the ring or hoop is so shaped by
carving or turning as to form the upper surface of the bar to the
section required. The bar may be bevilled on both surfaces or on one
surface only.
Those parts of the bar intended for the heels and toes of the shoes
are left solid, the toc part being made a little thicker than any other
"fullered" or grooved
portion, while the remaining parts of the bar are
by a tongue projecting from the surface of the hoop or ring upon the
upper roll.
As the circumference of the hoop or ring is of the same or about the
same length as the shoe or shoes required to be produced at one revolu-
tion as above mentioned the action of the rolls upon the iron introduced
will not be intermittent but continuous, and as the roll revolves every
part of the surface of the hoop or ring will act upon the iron without
intermission until the whole bar is completed. By this means bars of
any length may be rolled, and cach bar thus rolled will contain a large
number of shoes, which simply require to be cut into lengths and bent in
order to complete them.
The bars are made from piles or "billets" similar to those used in
the manufacture of guide and merchant iron, and are rolled at one heat,
that is to say, without reheating them.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Miller and Benjamin Wilson Raine in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th February 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
MILLER and BENJAMIN WILSON RAINE, both of the Firm of George
Miller and Company, of the City and County of Durham, Manufacturers,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said George Miller and Ben-
jamin Wilson Raine, Her special licence that we, the said Georgo
Miller and Benjamin Wilson Raine, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said George Miller and Benjamin
Wilson Raine, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with and no others, from time to time and at all times therc-
after 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 BARS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF
SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER HOOFED ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said George Miller and Benjamin Wilson Raine,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 Great Seal Patent Office within' six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said George Miller and Benjamin
Wilson Raine, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and
figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
The object of our Invention is to roll iron or other metal bars of such
an irregular form or section that by simply cutting them into proper

page_text: lengths and bending them they may be converted into shoes with solid
heels or with solid heels and toes, for horses and other hoofed animals.
The machinery by which we carry out our Invention consists of a
pair of rolls which are mounted in the ordinary guide mill standards,
in the same manner as rolls for the usual sections of iron, such as rounds,
flats, and squares, and which rolls we construct in the following manner,
that is to say-We take a pair of metal rolls and in one of them, by pre-
ference the lower one, we carve or turn a groove to the form or section of
the under side of the iron required, and upon the upper roll we form or
fasten a hoop or ring of steel or other hard metal, which hoop or ring
we reduce by carving or turning until its outer circumference is of such
a length that one revolution of the rolls will impress exactly, or almost
exactly, so much of the bar as will make one, two, three, or more shoes,
as may be found practicable, and we shape the face or periphery of this
ring or hoop by carving or turning so as to form the upper surface of the
bar to the section required. The bar may be bevilled on both surfaces,
or on one surface only, that is to say, where both sides of the bar are
bevilled and the shoe bent into form, the latter will be bevilled both on
the foot and ground surfaces, and when the bar is bevilled on one side
only, the shoe when formed will be bevilled on the foot surface, and
flat on the ground surface, or bevilled on the ground surface, and flat on
the foot surface as desired, or both sides may, if desired, be made flat.
Those parts of the bar intended for the heels and toes of the shoes are
left solid, the toe parts being made à little thicker than the heels if
necessary. The remaining parts of the bar are fullered or grooved by a
tongue formed on or attached to and projecting from the surface of the
hoop or ring upon the upper roll.
As the circumference of the hoop or ring must always be made the
same, or about the same length as the shoe or shoes required to be pro-
duced at one revolution as above mentioned, the action of the rolls
upon the iron introduced will not be intermittent but continuous; and
as the roll revolves every part of the surface of the hoop or ring will
act upon the iron without intermission until the whole bar is completed.
By these means bars of any length may be rolled, and each bar thus
rolled will contain a large number of shoes which simply require to be
cut into lengths, bent, and holed in order to complete them.
The bars are made from piles or billets similar to those used in the
manufacture of guide or merchant iron and are rolled at one licat, that
is to say, without reheating.

page_text: Instead of constructing the upper roll with the hoop or ring, herein-
before mentioned, the rolls themselves may be made of solid steel or
other suitable metal, the face of the roll itself being shaped so as
to form the upper surface of the bar to the section required, or suitable
dies may be fitted into the rolls for the same purpose; but in all cases
the circumference must be made of such a length as to impress so
much of the bar as will produce the required number of shoes at cach
revolution.
We will now proceed to refer to the accompanying Drawings, from
which the nature of our said Invention will be more clearly understood.
Figure 1 is a front elevation partly in section of a pair of rolls con-
structed according to our Invention, Figure 2 being a section of the
same, taken through the line A, B, Figure 1. The same letters of
reference indicate like parts in both Figures.
A, A, are the standards in which the rolls are mounted; B, the upper
roll with the steel ring or hoop C; and D, the lower roll.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we would observe
in conclusion that what we consider novel and original, and therefore
claim as constituting the Invention secured to us by the herein-boforc
in part recited Letters Patent is, the construction of the rolls of
machinery for manufacturing horse-shoes with solid heels and toes, or
with solid heels of such a circumference that their action upon the bar
will be continuous, substantially as herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Miller and Benjamin
Wilson Raine, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-
third day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand
cight hundred and seventy-five.
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Witness,
R. S. MORDAUNT VAUGHAN,
Patent Agent,
Darlington.
GEORGE MILLER.
B. W. RAINE.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)