US309100A - Rolling-mill - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

B. SAMUEL.

ROLLING MILL.

Patented Dec. 9, 1884.

' suggest themselves to expert mechanics.

llnrrn S EDWARD SAMUEL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ROLLING-MILL.

fiPEGIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,100, dated December 9, 1884.

Application filed March 17, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD SAMUEL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Rolling Mills, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of mechanism which is fully described hereinafter, and which is applied to the feed apron or table of arolling mill for the temporary support of a pile or bloom so far above the said apron or table that the peel or bar on which the pile has been conveyed from the furnace can be readily withdrawn from beneath the said pile, which is then lowered, so as to be supported solely on the apron or table, from which it passes to the rolls.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of part of a r0l1ing-mill, illustrating the application of my invention thereto; Fig. 2, a transverse section of part of Fig. 1 on the line 1 2; Fig. 3, a detached perspective view of the pile-supporter, and Fig. 4 a view showing a modification of my invention.

A A A are three rolls, and A part of one of the housings of the rollingmill, in front of which is the apron, fore-plate, ortable B, supported in the manner shown or in any other convenient manner. The apron or table is preferably composed of a series of rolls or disks, (Z, suitably connected together and driven, thus passing to the rolls the bloom or pile transferred to the apron or table from the peel or bar by the device forming the subject J of my invention.

This device is a pile-supporter, D, which consists of a plate having ribs, fingers, or pro jections 6, adapted to openings in the table or apron, but free from contact therewith. In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 this supporter is combined with and forms part of a plunger or piston, f, adapted to a cylinder, 71, so that liquids under pressure or steam may be used for raising the pile-supporter; but many different appliances for operating the said supporter will readily In Fig. 4, for instance, I have shown the application of an ordinary lever to the supporter, the latter being attached to or forming part of a bar, m, adapted to guides in a standard, N, to which the lever is pivoted, the short arm of the said lever projecting into a slot in the bar. On depressing the long arm of the lever the bar m and supporter can be raised, and on releasing the lever the supporter will descend partly by its own gravity and that of its adjuncts, and partly by the weight of the p1le or bloom which has been deposited on the projections of the elevated supporter. In the present instance the ribs or projections e e of the pile-supporter pass between disks or rollers of the apron or table; but in place of the ribs the supporter may have pins to pass through openings in the apron or table; but whatever system of projections may be used on the supporter, they must be far enough apart to admit between them the end of the peel WV, by which the pile or bloom is conveyed from the furnace to the apron or table B. Before this takes place, however, the pilesupporter is so far raised that the upper ends of its projections will be above the upper surface of the apron or table, as shown in Figs. 1'

and 2, so that the operator can introduce the peel between theprojections of the supporter, and after depositing the pile thereon can at once withdraw the peel, after which the supporter maybe lowered until the pile is in contact with the apron or table, when the said pile can be directed on the latter to the rolls.

The supporter D may be fixed and the apron B raised and lowered to effect the same result, or the apron and supporter both may be movable; but the construction shown is preferred.

I claim as my invention- The combination of a rolling-mill and an apron or table, B, with the pile or bloom sup port D and its projections 6, arranged far enough apart to admit a peel between them, and with mechanism for raising and lowering the said support, as set forth.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWD. SAMUEL.

WVitnesses:

HENRY D. WHELDON, WILLIAM SELFRIDGE.

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