US43593A

US43593A - Improvement in fagoting railroad-rails

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Publication number: US43593A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1864-07-19
Anticipated expiration: 1881-07-19

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT Canica,

IILLIAM LEWIS, JOHN PRICE, AND FRANCIS NAYLOR, vOFA DANVILLE,

A PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FAGOTING RAILROAD-RAILS.

Specillcation forming part of Letters .Patent No. 43,59 3, dated July 19, 1864.

To all whom it muy concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM LEWIS, JOHN PRICE, and FEANcIs NAYLOR, of Danville, in the county of Monteur, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Piles for Iron-Rolling; and we do hereby declare that the following is -a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, fo'rming a part of this specication. Said drawing representing a side elevation of our improvement.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

Our invention relates to a method of forining the piles orfagots of short bariron preparatory to welding and re rolling.

In the Ie-rolling of railroad rails or the rolling of bar-iron from old railroad-rails, considerable trouble and inconvenience has always heen experienced in forming, combining, and keeping together the short lengths of' the old rails in suitable piles or i'agots while undergoing the process ot' reheating in the reverberatory furnace. This difficulty has been duc to the peculiar irregular form ot' the rails, which is such that the short bars thereof cannot be piled or fagoed like rectangular bars and are therefore liable to fall apart when submitted to the action ot' the furnace and the disturbance of charging the same during the heating operation.

The object of our invention is to obviate the above difficulty, and we succeed in combining the said short bars of old rails into compact piles or i'agots in the following manner: We first provide a bottom "plate or layer, A, of corrugated folm, as shown, made of old rails, puddled iron, or reheated puddled iron; and upon the bottom plate, A, we lay in sidewise position, the railbars B B, the projections a a in plate A tting into the necks of the rails, and the heads of the rails iitting into the depressions b b of the plate A, as shown. Upon the upper sides of the bars B B we now lay, in

sidewise position, two other rail-bars, C C, the bases ot which abut against each other, and their heads tit into the necks ot the rails B B underneath them. Upon the bars C C are now placed two more rail-bars, D D, with their heads turned inward and iitted into the necks otl the bars C C underneath them, as shown, and upon the top of the bars D D we now place a corrugated top plate, A', of which the end projections, a' a', iit into the necks ot' the rails D D, and the heads of the rails D D tit into the depressions b' b' of plate A', as shown. The several projectionsA and depressions of the plates A A', with the .rails laid upon them and upon eachother, as shown, interlock with each so as to form a trm, compact pile, which cannot easily be broken apart by the charging` or other disturbances during the heating operation, and which is easy to move and place in the rolls; and it is not liable to laminate, owing to the close interlocking` of the several bars. The top plate, A', which is to form the head or upper surface ofthe bar or rail, may be made ot different or peculiar metal from the body, it' desirable. 'Ihe said plate A'- may he composed of re-heated iron or steel, or above the plate A' there may be placed still another plate composed ot' a metal havingsuch qualities as it may be desired to impart to the upper'surt'ace of the rolled bar or rail.

We do notconne ourselves to the use of any particular size otl corrugated plates A A', nor to any particular number of interlocking rails.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The formation ot` piles or fagots for rerolling by the combination ot' the corrugated top and bottoni plates, A A', with the interlocking rail-bars, all in the manner substantially as herein shown and described.

WM. LEWIS. JOHN PRICE. FRANCIS NAYLOR.

Vitnesses:

HENRY B. STRIGKLAND, C. LEwIs.