(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 1. A. MURE. DEVICE FOR PRESENTING FORGINGS TO STEAM HAMMERS, No. 253,088, Patented Jan. 31, 1882. N. PETERS. Fhcio.tithographer, Washington, D. C. (No Model.) 3. Sheets-Sheet 2. A, MURE, DEWICE FOR PRESENTING FORGINGS TO STEAM HAMMERS, No. 253,088, Patented Jan. 31, 1882, 1. L- al is sees - - - - - - - ----s - His 7% a zerrer N. peers, Photolithographer, Washington, D.C. (No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 3. A, MURE, DEVICE FOR PRESENTING FORGINGS TO STEAM HAMMERS. No. 253,088, Patented Jan. 31, 1882, | 772 (z 6 de - Zzz z-e 2 z zo. 2 C4-ace (2a2zed 24-ce/ze y Are 4; 4. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. ANDREW MURE, OF GLASGOW, COUNTY OF LANARK, SCOTLAND. DEVICE FOR PRESENTING FORGINGS TO STEAM - HAMMERS. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,088, dated January 31, 1882. Application filed December 10, 1881. (No model.) Patented in England August 4, 1881. To all chon it may concern: engage the one or the other of its ends with Be it known that I, ANDREWMURE, of Glas the teeth of the wheel c, or to place it in a gow, in the county of Lanark, North Britain, neutral position. A spring catch-piece, f', have invented Improvements in Moving or formed with three V-notches, bears upon the 55 Traversing and Holding Forgings or Ingots un back of the pawlf, and upon the said back of der Steam-Hammers, or equivalent hammering the pawl is a corresponding projection to take apparatus, and in the means employed there into one or other of these V-notches in accord for, (for which I have received Letters Patent ance with the position which the pawl fis to of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and take. A shaft, G, is mounted in bearings (1, Ireland, No. 3,381, dated August 4, 1SS1) of carried by brackets on the framing of the ham which the following is a specification. mer, to which shaft G. a motion of partial rota My said invention has for its object to dis tion is given at each ascent of the hammer by pense as much as possible with the malnual the tup of the said hammer bearing upon a labor at present employed in moving and hold wiper, g, keyed upon the said shaft G. : This 65 ing ingots or forgings upon the anvil of ham shaft G also carries an arm, f, keyed thereto, s mering apparatus by providing machinery for the outer end of the said arm being connected these purposes, consisting of a series of carriers to one end of a connecting-rod, h, the other which are so formed that on being rotated, or end of the said rod h being connected by a slot partly rotated, after the hammer has delivered ted connection with the pawl-lever f'. The rod o a blow they lift and feed the ingot or forging h is shown as being in two parts, jointed to the being hammered for the next blow of the han arm li”, turning upon the pin it, carried in the e bracketh", attached to the framing of the ham Figure 1 represents in side elevation and mer, so as to give steadiness to the said rodh. Fig. 2 in end elevation machinery constructed The herein before-described mechanism is for 75 according to my invention in position beneath the purpose of rotating the carriers B. The 25 a steam-hammer. Fig. 3 is a plan of the said said carriers B are arranged in two sets, one machinery. set on either side of the anvil X; but all the In a strong framing, A, are carried bearings rolls of both sets are connected by the rods c, a, in which are mounted triangular carriers B, so as to simultaneously receive the same move capable of revolving in the said bearings. The nell t. - - flat surfaces of these carriers B are slightly In order to lift the ingot or forging upon its below the level of the face of the anvil-block edge or side for hammering the ingot or forg X, but the angular edges or apices of the said ing in another direction, the following mech carriers, when uppermost, are above the level anism is provided: Underneath each set of car 85 of the said anvil-block. The carriers B are riers B two shafts, i, are mounted in bearings in 35 coupled together by the rods c, centered to the frauning of the machine, the length of the cranks b, fixed at each end of each carrier B, so said shafts being at rightangles to the length of that the motion given to one carrier is trans the carriers B. Each of these shafts has keyed mitted to the other carriers. Upon the axis of to it a number of arms, i, situated between 90 one of the said carriers is a pinion, d, with which the carriers B, and, when in their lowest posi gears another pinion, e, on a counter-shaft, e, tion, resting in recesses in the framing A, be carried in bearings beneath the said carrier; neath the level of the upper parts of the said and at the opposite end of this counter-shaft carriers B. e' is keyed a ratchet-wheel, e, and a pawl, f, is In bearings l are mounted two shafts, k, 95 carried in the lever f', mounted loosely upon the one for operating the pair of shafts i under one 45 said shaft e. This pawl f is a double-acting set of carriers and the other for operating the pawl, and may be of any suitable construction. pair of shafts i under the other set of carriers. As shown in the drawings, it is mounted by its Each shaft k has keyed to it arms k and k, axis f' in the lever f', one end of this axis f the arm having a hook or eye, to which a IOO projecting and being squared for the reception chain pulled upon by the hammer, as herein So of a handle to turn the pawlf into position to after described, can be attached. The arm k' 2 253,0ss of each shaft k is connected by the link l to carriers B in one direction lhave caused the the arm l, keyed upon one of the shafts i of ingot or forging to pass beneath the ham each pair of such shafts. The two shafts i of mer, so as to be hammered throughout its each pair are connected together by the arms length, the said ingot or forging is resting upon it, keyed thereto and the connecting-link i', so the set of carriers B at the opposite side of the that the motion given to the one shaft i is anvil from that at which the said in got or forg transmitted to the other in the reverse direc ing approached the ham mer. To pass the in tion, so that the arms i° of both shafts i are got or forging again beneath the hammer, the moved upward. The shafts k are each pro motion of the carriers B is reversed by turn 75 O vided with a friction-pulley, m, and binding ing the rod h over to the other side of the axial clutch m”, which, being tightened upon the said line of the counter-shafte', which can be readily pulley by the screw in", fixes the shafts k and done when the hammer is at the top of its stroke consequently the shafts i and arms i in the and the pawl-lever foonsequently in a vertical, position to which they have been brought. or nearly vertical, position, the slotted connec. The requisite movement to cause the lifting of tion of the rod h to the pawl-lever f' being for the arms i is obtained from the movement of the purpose of allowing of this throwing over of the shaft G, an arm, n, and rod p, similar to the said rod. The pawlf is then reversed by to those, g and h, herein before described for turning it by a handle placed upon the squared giving the motion to the carriers, being con end of its axis.f, so that the V-projection at the 85 nected with the said shaft G at its other end back of the said pawl engages in the V-recess to cause the lifting of an arm, p', to which is at the opposite side of the retaining-spring attached a chain, p", which is connected at its catch-piece f", and movement in a direction other end by a hook or other connection to one opposite to that which was previously given or the other of the arms k', according to which to them is consequently transmitted to the 25 set of arms i* is to be raised-that is to say, carriers B to feed the ingot or forging back whether the arms ” between the carriers on beneath the hammer. When the other sides the one side or those on the other side of the of the ingot or forging are to be haminered anvil are to be raised. Rollers q are placed at the ingot is turned at right angles to its for each end of the framing A to facilitate the re mer position and supported in this position by 95 ception and delivery of the ingot or forging by the arms i°, the movement of the said arms to the machine.