Improvements in the Manufacture of Horse-shoe Blanks and in Machinery used in the said Manufacture.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 12th July 1898
Complete Specification Left, 17th Mar., 1899-Accepted, 6th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 17th Mar., 1899-Accepted, 6th May, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Horse-shoe Blanks and in
Machinery used in the said Manufacture.
We, JABEZ LONES and EDWARD HOLDEN, trading as Lones, Vernon and Holden,
of Sandwell Iron and Axle Works, Smethwick, in the County of Stafford, Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists of the process or combination of processes hereinafter
described for the manufacture of horse shoe blanks of iron or steel and of the
improvements in machinery also hereinafter described used in the said manufacture.
In carrying our invention into effect we take a billet of wrought iron or steel
and reduce it by a rolling process into a long bar of the required thickness and
width. We take this bar and pass it through one or more pairs of properly grooved
rolls so as to roll upon one of the faces of the bar a series of projections or thickened
parts at the required distances apart, and at the same time bevel about one half
of the other face of the bar. From these projections or thickened parts on one face
of the bar the toe pieces and heel pieces of the horse shoe blanks are to be made,
the rolled bar being divided transversely either at the thickened parts or mid-
way between the thickened parts as hereinafter described according as horse shoe
blanks having toe and heel pieces or toe pieces only or heel pieces only are to be
made..
When horse shoe blanks with toe pieces only are to be made, the long bar is
divided at the thin parts midway between the several projections or thickened
parts so as to leave a projection or thickened part at the middle of each cut off
piece or blank:
When horse shoe blanks with both toe and heel pieces are to be made, the bar is
divided across the middles of alternate projections or thickenings so as to pro-
duce blanks each having a middle projection to form the toe piece and each end
a projection to form the heel piece.
When horse shoe blanks having heel pieces only are to be made the projections
or thickenings rolled on one of the faces of the bar are double the distance apart
of those rolled on the bar for making blanks having both toe and heel pieces.
In this case all the projections of the bar are divided transversely at their middles
so as to form blanks having at their ends thickened parts from which the heel
pieces of the horse shoe are to be made.
In making blanks for
fullered" horse shoes, that is, blanks having grooves or
depressions in which the horse shoe nails are sunk, the rolls by which the long bar
is finished are formed with projections for making longitudinal grooves or depres-
sions at the proper distances apart on the same face of the bar as that on which
the projections or thickenings for the toe pieces or toe and heel pieces are formed.
The blanks thus made are bent and formed into horse shoes in the ordinary way
the said bending and forming constituting no part of our invention.
For the purpose of locking or engaging together the pair or pairs of rolls which
we use for the finishing stage of the rolling process so as to secure great accuracy

page_text: in the rolled bars and reduce to a minimum the production of waste bars, we gear
the two rolls together by toothed wheels either at one end or at both ends of the
barrels of the rolls and within the housings of the rolls; or the rolls may be
geared together at the middle of the barrels and the gearing wheels may either be
made solid to the rolls or separately and keyed thereto.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Horse-shoe Blanks and in
Machinery used in the said Manufacture.
We, JABEZ LONES and EDWARD HOLDEN, trading as Lones, Vernon and Holden,
of Sandwell Iron and Axle Works, Smethwick, in the County of Stafford, Manu-
facturers, 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:-
Our invention consists of the process or combination of processes hereinafter
'described for the manufacture of horse shoe blanks of iron or steel and of the
improvements in machinery also hereinafter described used in the said manufacture.
In carrying our invention into effect we take a billet of wrought iron or steel
and reduce it by a rolling process into a long bar of the required thickness and
width. We take this bar and pass it through one or more pairs of properly grooved
rolls so as to roll upon one of the faces of the bar a series of projections or thickened
parts at the required distances apart, and at the same time bevel about one half
of the other face of the bar but the bevelling of the bar may be
effected at an earlier stage of the rolling operation; or the bevelling
may be omitted.
From these projections or thickened parts on one face
of the bar the toe pieces and heel pieces of the horse shoe blanks are to be made,
the rolled bar being divided transversely either at the thickened parts or mid-
way between the thickened parts as hereinafter described according as horse shoe
blanks having toe and heel pieces or toe pieces only or heel pieces only are to be
made.
When horse shoe blanks with toe pieces only are to be made, the long bar is
divided at the thin parts midway between the several projections or thickened
parts so as to leave a projection or thickened part at the middle of each cut off
piece or blank.
When horse shoe blanks with both toe and heel pieces are to be made, the bar is
divided across the middles of alternate projections or thickenings so as to pro-
duce blanks each having a middle projection to form the toe piece and each end
a projection to form the heel piece.
When horse shoe blanks having heel pieces only are to be made the projections
or thickenings rolled on one of the faces of the bar are double the distance apart
of those rolled on the bar for making blanks having both toe and heel pieces.
In this case all the projections of the bar are divided transversely at their middles
so as to form blanks having at their ends thickened parts from which the heel
pieces of the horse shoe are to be made.
In making blanks for "fullered" horse shoes, that is, blanks having grooves or
depressions in which the horse shoe nails are sunk, the rolls by which the long bar
is finished are formed with projections for making longitudinal grooves or depres-
sions at the proper distances apart on the same face of the bar as that on which
the projections or thickenings for the toc pieces or toe and heel pieces are formed.

page_text: The blanks thus made are bent and formed into horse shoes in the ordinary way
the said bending and forming constituting no part of our invention.
For the purpose of locking or engaging together the pair or pairs of rolls which
we use for the finishing stage of the rolling process so as to secure great accuracy
in the rolled bars and reduce to a minimum the production of waste bars, we gear
the two rolls together by toothed wheels either at one end or at both ends of the
barrels of the rolls and within the housings of the rolls; or the rolls may be
geared together at the middle of the barrels and the gearing wheels may either be
made solid to the rolls or separately and keyed thereto.
We will now proceed to describe in detail with reference to the accompanying
drawings, the manner in which our invention is to be performed.
In making horse shoe blanks according to our invention, we take a heated billet
of wrought iron or steel and reduce it into a long bar square or nearly square in
cross section. By a series of rolling operations effected in the rolls hereinafter
described we reduce the thickness of the bar and lengthen it and at the same
time bevil one face of the bar, that is to say, we first roll and bevil the bar and
give it the form represented in Figure 1, next the form represented in Figure 2
and afterwards that represented in Figure 3. From the bevil faced bar Figure 3
we roll a bar having a series of projections on the face opposite the bevelled face,
the projections being of a size and having positions proper for the production of
horse shoe blanks having heel and toe pieces, or having toe pieces only or having
heel pieces only as well as the fullers or depressions, either at intervals or con-
tinuously for receiving the horse shoe nails. The shaping of the bar Figure 3 into
bars from which blanks of the kinds described, are cut is effected in the rolls herein-
after described.
Figure 4 represents in side elevation, plan, end elevation and cross section, a bar
rolled with projections on one face, from which projections the toe and heel pieces
are made; and also rolled with fullers or depressions at intervals for the nails,
the said rolled bar being of a length suitable to produce two horse shoe blanks.
The projections or thickened parts of the blanks from which the toe pieces are
made are marked a, a and those from which the heel pieces are made are marked b, b
and the fullers or depressions for the nails situated in the faces of the thin portions
of the bar are marked c, c.
Figure 5 represents a rolled bar for the production of horse shoe blanks having
projections d, d from which the toe pieces are made, the projections for the heel
pieces being omitted, and also having fullers or depressions c, c in the thinner
portions of the bar for the horse shoe nails; and Figure 6 represents a rolled bar
for the production of horse shoe blanks having projections e, e from which the
heel pieces are made, the projections for the toe pieces being omitted, and also
having fullers or depressions c, c in the thinner portions of the bar for the horse
shoe nails.
By dividing transversely the bars Figures 4, 5 and 6 at the dotted lines, x, two
horse shoe blanks from each bar are made, the blanks or cut off pieces being
bent into horse shoes and finished in the ordinary way.
To facilitate the dividing of the bar into horse shoe blanks, cross notches are
rolled in the bars at the parts where they are to be transversely divided.
Instead of rolling the fullers or depressions for the horse shoe nails at intervals
in the face of the bar as described and represented, a continuous fuller or depres-
sion may be rolled in the face of the bar; and instead of rolling the bar of a
length only sufficient to form two blanks therefrom, the bar may be rolled of
sufficient length to form more than two blanks therefrom, the long bar being
divided transversely in the same manner as described with respect to a bar from
which two blanks only are cut.
Although we prefer to roll the bar, having thickened pieces on its face from
which the heels and toes, or toes only or heels only are made with fullers or depres-
sions for the nails, yet the fullers or depressions may be omitted and the said fullers

page_text: be produced in the blanks by a hand process in the finishing of the horse shoes,
and the rolled bars may be without the bevelled face represented, that is, the horse
shoe blanks may be cut from bars oblong or square in cross section and having
thickened pieces on one of their faces.
We will now describe the rolls which we use in carrying our invention into
effect.
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Figure represents in front elevation and Figure 7 in end elevation, a set of
three high rolls which we use, for giving to the bar the preliminary rollings
represented in Figures 1, 2 and 3. The three high rolls f, g, h are provided with
three shaping or fashioning grooves 1, 2 and 3 a middle top groove 2 and two side
grooves 1 and 3; the top groove 2 being formed between the neck of the middle
rolf and the middle Hange of the top rolly and side flanges of the middle
roll f, and the two-side grooves 1 and 3 being formed between the flanges of the
middle and bottom rolls f, h. The manner in which the flanges of the three
rolls are engaged together to form the grooves 1, 2 and 3 will be understood by
referring to Figure 7. The billet having been reduced to a bar of the required
sectional figure, is passed first through the groove 1 so as to roll the bar of the form
represented in Figure 1. The rolled bar Figure 1 is then passed back through the
groove 2 to the front of the rolls so as to convert it into the bar Figure 2 and the
bar Figure 2 is passed forward through the groove 3 so as to convert it into the
bar Figure 3.
The pair of grooved rolls which we use for rolling the bar Figure 3 into bars
having upon one of their faces projections from which the toe and heel pieces are
formed and at the same time for rolling the fullers or depressions in the bar, is
represented in front elevation in Figure 8 and cross section in Figure 9.
The bottom roll is the grooved roll and the top roll is the acting or shaping
roll, the said top roll having upon its periphery the necessary projections and
depressions for shaping the face of the bar of the form represented in Figure 4,
and at the same time forming the fullers c, c, the said fullers being shaped by
the ribs i, i on the said top roll. The depressions in the top roll whereby the
projections or thickenings are left on the face of the bar to form the heel portions,
are provided with cross projections at k by the action of which the cross notches
are made in the bar for facilitating the dividing of the bar as before described.
Figure 10 represents in elevation and Figure 11 in cross section, the pair of
geared rolls which we use for rolling the bars Figure 5, from which horse shoe
blanks having toe pieces only are formed. The top roll of this pair of rolls differs
only from that represented in Figures 8 and 9 in the respect that its periphery
is shaped to form the toe pieces d, d only, the depressions to form the heel pieces
being absent. In these rolls the cross ribs for forming the cross notches for
facilitating the dividing of the bar are made midway between the long raised parts
of the top shaping roll.
Figure 12 represents in side elevation and Figure 13 in cross section the pair of
rolls used for rolling the bar Figure 6 from which horse shoe blanks having heel
projections only are made. These rolls are the same as those represented in
Figures 8 and 9 excepting that the parts of the top roll for shaping the toe parts
of the bar are omitted.
For securing great accuracy in the rolled bars, each of the pairs of rolls
Figures 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 is geared together within the housings by means
of the toothed wheels 1, m; 1, m at each end of the barrels of the rolls; or each pair
of rolls may be geared together by toothed wheels at one end only of the barrels
or at the middle of the barrels. The gearing wheels represented are solid to or cast
in one piece with the barrels of the rolls, but they may be made separately and
keyed to the barrels.
By locking, or gearing together the pairs of rolls by toothed gearing as described
and represented, the bars are very accurately rolled and the production of
waste bars prevented.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we
claim as our invention of "Improvements in the Manufacture of Horse Shoe Blanks
and in Machinery used in the said Manufacture":-
First: Manufacturing horse shoe blanks by rolling on the face of a long bar
of wrought iron or steel, oblong or square in cross section, a series of projections
or thickened parts at the required distances apart, from which projections or
thickened parts, the toe pieces and heel pieces, or the toe pieces only or the heel
pieces only of the horse shoe blanks are made, the said rolled bar being cut into
horse shoe blanks by dividing it transversely at the thickened parts in the case
of blanks having heel and toe pieces or heel pieces only, and at the thin parts of
the bar and midway between the thickened parts, in the case of blanks having
toe pieces only, whether the face thickened bar be rolled with or without a bevelled
edge and with or without fullers or depressions for the nails substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 1 to 6 both inclusive of the
accompanying drawings.
Secondly: The use in conducting the process of manufacture referred to in
Claim 1, of the three high rolls hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 7
and of the accompanying drawings for giving the preliminary rollings to the
bar prior to the rolling of the projections or thickened parts on its face, the said
three high rolls consisting of three flanged rolls the flanges of which are so engaged
together as to form between them three shaping or fashioning grooves substan-
tially as described and illustrated.
Thirdly: The use in conducting the process of manufacture referred to in
Claim 1, of the pairs of rolls hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures S
to 13 both inclusive of the accompanying drawings for rolling the projections
or thickenings on the face of the bar and also forming the fullers or depressions for
the nails in the bar, each of the said pairs of rolls consisting of a grooved roll
and a shaping or fashioning roll the periphery of the last named roll having such
a figure as to shape the said projections and fullers or depressions substantially as
described and illustrated.
Lastly-Gearing together the pairs of rolls claimed in Claim 3, by means of
gearing wheels on the barrels of the rolls and within the housings of the rolls for
the purpose of ensuring the accurate rolling of the bars substantially as described
and illustrated.
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