US440573A - Rod-reel - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

C. E. MATTESON.

ROD RE Patented Nov. 11, 1890.

lulliulInlllllnl UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. MATTESON, OF ALLEN'IOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

ROD-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,573, dated November 11, 1890.

Application filed August l5, 1889. Serial No. 320,822. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. MATTEsoN,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Allentown, in the county of Lehigh, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rod-Reels, of lwhich the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

rlhis invention relates to reels for use in connection with rod-mills; and the main object in view is to provide a means for receiving and ceiling a rod as it emerges from the final rolls of a train, so that not only will' a large floor space in the mill be freed for other purposes than the reception of such rod, but the rod itself will be put into a more convenient form for subsequent handling` and treatment.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation, with parts in vertical section, of a rod-drum and its appliances constructed in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 2V

is a plan of the same.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in both figures.

Let A A represent the final rolls of a train employed for the manufacture of rods from billets or other form of stock, and B the loorplates usually elnployed in rolling-mills.

At a convenient distance from the rolls A is mounted a suitable standard or frame-work C, having a riser or other desired means D for the support of a guide-tube E, one end of which is in a sufficiently close proximity to the rolls A to receive therefrom the advancing or leading end of a rod as it passes thereinbetween. The opposite end of the guidetube is curved so as to direct a rod passing therethrough downward. In this instance the tube E is made in two sections, the one being straight, projecting toward the rolls and adapted to slide telescopically within the other, which is connected with the support D, whereby the receivingend of the guide-tube may be adj usted at different distances from the rolls.

The frame-work or standard C is apertured, as at C', to form a bearing, in which is rotatably mounted a sleeve F, having a fiange F', which bears upon the standard. The sleeve may also have a flange F2, adapted to bear upon the lower face of the standard, in which case, if the iianges be integral with the sleeve, as shown, the standard-bearing would consist of separable parts bolted together, as is usual in constructing bearings for integrally-anged journals.

To the lower iiange of the sleeve is secured a delivery-tube or lay-oif G, having the form ot' a compound curve with its delivery end tapered transversely, and upon the upper portion of the sleeve is a rigidly-mounted belt or band pulley H; or any desired system of gearing may be employed. The bent section of the guide-tube E projects into the sleeve F, and the interior bore of the latter is gradually reduced to coincide with that of the lay-off G at'the point where the two join each other.

In the floor-plate B an opening B is formed of a size and shape to substantially agree with that of the drum I, and said opening leads into or communicates with a pit J, formed beneath the floor. W'ithin the pit is arranged any suitable framing .I' to support the connect-ed and opera-ting parts of the drum. Mounted in any desired manner upon such framing' are bearing plates K4 K4, through which the spindle I of the drum passes. The body of the drum terminates in au upwardly and inwardly projecting annular iiange I2, which facilitates the removal of a coil of wire therefrom, and also permits the rotation of the extreme and delivering end of the lay-off closely to the periphery of the drum Without forming in the lay-off any abrupt bend, whereby the passage of the rod therethrough is not impeded, and, furthermore, the rod is up to its very end under the full control of the lay-off, and is neatlycoiled thereby. This latter advantage exists whether the flange I2 be present or not. At

K a lever K is pivotally connected with the spindle-drum, said lever being fulcrumed in a bracket K2, and pivotally attached at K3 to rod L, carrying at its upper end aplatform L', which is held substantially level with the floor-plate B by any suitable means. In this instance a latch is provided and adapted to be operated by a hand-lever N, pivoted to and extending above the door, so as to come into contact with and hold the platform L and rod L in the position'shown in Fig. l, and so as to detach the latch from the rod and permit it and the rod to rise by reason of the weight of the drum and its spindle acting on the end K of the lever K.

The operation is as follows: A suitable band or belt H being driven from any desired source of power, the lay-off G is rotated, and its delivery end travels a path close to the periphery of the drum. The rod X emerges from the rolls A A, enters and travels along the guide-tu be E until the leading end strikes the curved portion, by which it is deflected into the rotating sleeve, and is guided by its coned interior into the non-abruptly-curved lay-oit. As the rod reaches the Hoor-plate it is by the rotation of the layoff rapidly whipped around the druin, and when leaving the roller is drawn more or less snugly thereagainst, and the successive coils arelaid upon each other until the following end of the rod thereby against the drum.

passes out of the lay-off, and is whipped The latch M is now released from the rod L, and the drum falls within the pit, the edges of the opening B of the floor-plate retaining the coil and serving to strip the same from the drum. The coil may now be transported bodily away for further treatment. The operator now depresses by a foot or standing` upon the platform, so as to bring the drum into position to receive another coil.

By the apparatus thus described the equally long distance of Hoor-space required to receive an uncoiled rod from the rolls is rendered useful for other purposes, and the rod is put into a convenient form.

What I claim as new is- 1. In a wire-reel, a rotary lay-off having transversely, substantially as and-for the purpose specified.

3. A vertical reciprocative pitted drum, a system of levers for reciprocating said drum` and a locking mechanism for retaining the drum in a desired position, substantially as described.

4. The combination, vwith the Hoor-plates and the final rolls ot' atrain,of the rod-guide,v

a rotary lay-off, a drum vertically reciprocative through an opening in said door-plates, and a platform operatively connected with the drum, substantially as described. p

5. The combination, with a standard having a bearing, of an annular flanged sleeve provided with a single rod-passage and a pulley, and a curved lay-off secured to the sleeve to constantly register with the rod-passage of the sleeve, substantially as described.

6. The combination, with a rotary lay-oft', of a reciprocative drum and an open-sided case, whereby a coil, when formed, may be withdrawn from the reeling apparatus without lifting the same from the floor, substan- /tially as described.

In testimony' whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.-

CHARLES E. MATTESON.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM M. DoUGLAss, WELLINGTON H. BIRD.

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