US744874A - Cooling-bed for metal bars or rods. - Google Patents

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PATENTED NOV. 24, 1903.

M.,A. NEELAND. COOLING BED FOR METAL BARS 0R RODS.

' APPLICATION FILED JULY 6. 1901.

N0 MODEL.

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Patented November 24, 1903.

MARVIN A. NEELAND, OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO MORGAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, A COR- PORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

COOLING-BED FOR METAL BARS OR RODS,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,874, dated November 24, 1.903.

Application filed July 6,1901 Serial No. 67,270. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARVIN A. NEELAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Youngstown, in the county of Mahoning and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cooling-Beds for Metal Bars or Rods, of which thefollowing is aspecification, accompaniedby drawings, forming a part of the same, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan view of a cooling-bed for metal bars embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectionalview on line 3 3, Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow (1; and Fig. 4 is a sectional View on line 3 3, Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow b.

Similar reference letters and figures refer to similar parts in the difierent views.

My invention relates to an apparatus for taking care of the products of a rolling-mill and comprising the following instrumentalities: first, means for severing the rod or bar delivered from the rolling-mill into desired lengths; second, means for straightening the separate lengths as they are severed from the continuous rod or bar and assembling the severed lengths into a group; third, means for moving the assembled groups longitudinally into alinement with any one of theseveral sections of a cooling-bed, and, fourth, means for moving. the groups by a sidewise movement upon thecooling-bed; and my invention consists in the combination of these instrumentalities in a single operating mechanism and in the novel details of construc- 1 tion and arrangements of parts, as hereinafter described, and set forth in the annexed claims. 4

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

A denotes the finishing-rolls of a rolling-mill from whieh'a continuous rod or bar is delivered.

B denotes a shear of any known form of construction by which the continuous rod or bar is severed into desired lengths.

C denotes a conveyor, by which the severed rods or bars are moved away from the shear B, said can veyer consisting of a series of positively-driven rolls 0', operatively connected with a driving-shaft C by which the rolls are rotated to move the severed rods in the direction of the arrow c upon an assembling table C consisting of a series of conveyerrolls C", which are placed with their axes at sidewise movement of the rods in the direc tion of the arrow 6 is limited by a series of side rolls E, turning loosely upon. vertical studs, with the inner sides of the peripheries of the rolls E arranged in a straight line, so that the first rod moving over the assemblingtable will be carried against the side rolls E, and as the rod is in a heated state when delivered from the rolling-mill the movement of the rod against the peripheries of the roll causes the rod to be straightened and to be brought into the position 1 in contact with the rolls E and with its forward end in contact withthe stop-plate D. The second rod delivered to the assembling-table will likewise be moved endwise and sidewise by the rolls 0 into the position 2, lying against the side of the rod 1 and with its forward end in contact with the stop-plate D. The individual rods, as\ they are severed from the continuous rod will be assembled in a group upon the assembling table, as represented in Fig. 1. When a snfficieht'number of rods have been assembled, the stop-plate D is lowered below the plane of the rolls C, thereby releasing the group of rods on the assembling-table and allowing them to be moved endwise over a series of conveyor-rolls F against a stppplate G and opposite the parallel supporting bars or skids H, forming the first section of the cooling-bed, upon which the group of rods can be moved by a sidewise motion by means ofthe pusher-bar I, carried by a pair of posttively-driven chains 1 I. The stop-plate G, however, can be lowered, if desired, below the plane of the conveyer-rolls F, thereby lot allowing the group of rods to be carried fo'r- I ward over the conveyor-rolls J against a-stopplate K and opposite the skids L, which form thesecond section of the. cooling-bed, upon which the group of rods can be moved by a sidewisemovement by a pusher-bar M, car'- ried upon a pair of moving chains ,N N, each group being distributed on the skids of the cooling-bed, as represented at 3 and 4, Fig.

from which the groups maybe removed into a car or'truck or lifted by ail-overhead crane. I I'have shown in the plan view of Fig. 1 the cooling-bed as comprising two sections; but the number of sections may be increased as desired.

. which they are raised and lowered.

I 3 Between each of theside rolls'E are guideplates 0, substantially filling the space between the rolls and placed slightly oblique to the line connecting their axes. The guideplatesO serve't'o prevent the advancing end: of a rod from passing between the rolls E and to conduct it over the periphery of the rolls.

valve mechanism, and the stop-plates aremounted upon the piston-rods R of the hydraulic cylinders, as represented in -Fig. 4.

, In like manner the shear B is operated in the usual andwell-known manner by a hydraulic cylinder S.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- 1. In a cooling-bed for metal bars, or rods,

the combination of the following instrumen- Z talities; means for severing the bar into defleral lengths into groups of parallel bars,-

sired lengths, means for assembling the sevmeans for moving the bars in a group simultaneously by an endwise movement, means for checking the endwise movement of a group at a desired point, and means for moving the bars imthe group by a sidewise movement, substantially as described;

- 2. In the assembling mechanism of a cooling-bed for metal bars, the-combination of means for severing a rod, or bar, into lengthsas it is delivered from the rolling-mill, and means forstraightening-and assembling the severed lengths into groups consisting of a series of rotating rolls in the same horizontal plane, with their axes placed at an oblique an;

gle to the line of motion of the rod as it is delivered from the rolling-mill, whereby an endwise and a sidewise movement are imparted to the severed rod, a series of rolls in alinement with each other and placed in the path of the rod to limit its sidewise movement, and a stop by which the endwise movementof the rod is checked, substantially as described.

3. In the assembling mechanism of a coollug-bed for metal, bars, the combination of means formoving the individual barsend- 'wise, means for moving the individual bars sidewise, means for checking thesidewise movement of the individual bars, a stop by which -:the endwise movement of each indiyidu'al bar is checked, whereby the bars are asvidual bars, a stop for checking the endwise movement of the individual bars, whereby said bars are assembled in a group of parallel bars, means for removing-said endwise stop from the path of the assembled in bars to. permit their endwise movement upon a series of conveyor-rolls, a series of conveyor-rolls, a stop for checking the endwise movement of the group of assembled bars on said rolls in alinement with said cooling bed, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a series of rotating rolls, a common driving-shaft by which said rolls are rotated, said'rolls having their axes placed at an oblique angle to said drivingshaft, said rolls with their axes at right-angles"to the'pla'ne of said driven rolls, guideplates between said side rolls, amovable stopplate, and means for periodically operating said stop-plate, substantially as described.

6. The combination of a series of rotating rolls, forming an assembling-table, with their axes at an oblique angle to the endwise movement of the bars on said table,whereby asidewise movement is imparted to each bar, stops for limiting said sidewisemoveme'nt, a stopplate for limiting said endwise movement,

whereby the bars are assembled in a group,

and means for periodicallyoperating said stop-plate, substantially as described.

7. In the assembling mechanism of a cooling-bed, the combination of a cutting mechanism for severing a bar as it is delivered from the rolling-mill, a conveyor for the bars as they are severed by-the cutting mechanism, said conveyer comprising a series of rolls arranged to impart a simultaneous endwise and sidewise movement to the bars supported thereon, means for rotating said rolls, means for checking the sidewisemovement of the bars, a stop interposed in the path of the bars for checking their longitudinal movement, and means for periodibally removing said stop to permit the simultaneous endwise movement of the assembled bars, substantially as described.

'Dated this 27th day of June, 1901. MARVIN A. NEELAND.

Witnesses:

PAUL J onus,

'- CAMERON CAMP.

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