US40732A - Improvement in the manufacture of steel - Google Patents
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- 229910000831 Steel Inorganic materials 0.000 title description 18
- 239000010959 steel Substances 0.000 title description 18
- 238000004519 manufacturing process Methods 0.000 title 2
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- 229910000805 Pig iron Inorganic materials 0.000 description 10
- OKTJSMMVPCPJKN-UHFFFAOYSA-N carbon Chemical compound [C] OKTJSMMVPCPJKN-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 10
- 229910052799 carbon Inorganic materials 0.000 description 10
- 229910000499 pig iron Inorganic materials 0.000 description 10
- XEEYBQQBJWHFJM-UHFFFAOYSA-N iron Chemical compound [Fe] XEEYBQQBJWHFJM-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 8
- 239000002184 metal Substances 0.000 description 8
- 229910052751 metal Inorganic materials 0.000 description 8
- 229910001208 Crucible steel Inorganic materials 0.000 description 6
- 238000003763 carbonization Methods 0.000 description 6
- 239000003610 charcoal Substances 0.000 description 6
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- 229910052742 iron Inorganic materials 0.000 description 4
- CURLTUGMZLYLDI-UHFFFAOYSA-N carbon dioxide Chemical compound O=C=O CURLTUGMZLYLDI-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
- C21C—PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
- C21C3/00—Manufacture of wrought-iron or wrought-steel
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- Our invention consists in makinga cast-steel suitable for edgetools of all kinds in a puddling-furnace out of pig-iron by one single process, of carbonization in the furnace; and we would further state that although our process by a single operation makes perfect steel, suitable in hardness for the purposes named, yet, as in all steel, it must be afterward remelted in crucibles, not, however, to carbonize or 'recarbonize it, but for the purpose of making its fibers firm and compact and allowing them to weld under the rolls or hammer.
- pig metal (charcoal pig metal preferred) in an ordinary puddling-i'urnace, and puddle it in the usual well-known way until it commences to flux. It is then worked very hot until it commences to granulate, at which point in the process pulverized charcoal or other carbon is thrown into and the furnace closed up for a few minutes. The metal is then brought out and made into bars or blooms in the usual way, which bars or blooms are afterward broken up and remelted in a crucible to make the fiber of the steel compact and firm. Duringtheboilingofthemetalitshould be made very hot, and all the cinder carefully kept in the furnace.
- cast-steel is made from pigiron by one act of carbonization, and that done in the puddling-furnaoe, by which we save much time and expense.
- the closing up of the furnace after the carbon is thrown into it holds the carbonic-acid gas in the furnace, and this prevents what carbon remains in the metal in the furnace from being consumed. This we believe to be the action that takes place, in
Description
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WM. H. BRUNT AND JOS. W. MGELROY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.
IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STEEL.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 40,732, dated December 1, 1863.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. BRUNT and J OSEPH W. MOELROY, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful improvements in the process of making steel suitable for edge-tools of all kinds out of pigiron in a common pnddling-furnance; and I do hereby declare that the follo win gisa full, clear, and exact description of the same.
We are aware that iron has been carbonized in a puddling-furnace to partially prepare it for the after-conversion of it into steel by recarbonization Ill crucibles. We are also aware that a kind of blister or inferior steel, not applicable to the making of edge-tools, has been made in a puddlingfurnace from pigiron. We do not claim either of these processes or products.
Our invention consists in makinga cast-steel suitable for edgetools of all kinds in a puddling-furnace out of pig-iron by one single process, of carbonization in the furnace; and we would further state that although our process by a single operation makes perfect steel, suitable in hardness for the purposes named, yet, as in all steel, it must be afterward remelted in crucibles, not, however, to carbonize or 'recarbonize it, but for the purpose of making its fibers firm and compact and allowing them to weld under the rolls or hammer.
To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our invention, we will proceed to describe the process we follow.
We place pig metal (charcoal pig metal preferred) in an ordinary puddling-i'urnace, and puddle it in the usual well-known way until it commences to flux. It is then worked very hot until it commences to granulate, at which point in the process pulverized charcoal or other carbon is thrown into and the furnace closed up for a few minutes. The metal is then brought out and made into bars or blooms in the usual way, which bars or blooms are afterward broken up and remelted in a crucible to make the fiber of the steel compact and firm. Duringtheboilingofthemetalitshould be made very hot, and all the cinder carefully kept in the furnace.
By our process cast-steel is made from pigiron by one act of carbonization, and that done in the puddling-furnaoe, by which we save much time and expense. The closing up of the furnace after the carbon is thrown into it holds the carbonic-acid gas in the furnace, and this prevents what carbon remains in the metal in the furnace from being consumed. This we believe to be the action that takes place, in
whole or in part, by the closing up of the furnace after the carbon is thrown into it. We know that we produce a steel equal to the best cast-steel for edge-tools by one act of carbonization only, and that done in the puddlingfurnace. l
Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent in the process of making steel direct from pig-iron in an ordinary puddling-furnace, is
Throwing into the furnace pulverized charcoal or other carbon when the iron begins to granulate and closing up the furnace to retain the gases evolved therein, as herein described.
WM. H. BRUNT.
' J. W. MOELROY.
Witnesses:
A. B. STOUGHTON, HAVER FENDRIGH.
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