US927022A - Carrier for foundry-ladles. - Google Patents

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G. J. BLAGKHAM.

CARRIER FOR FOUNDRY LADLES.

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GEORGE J. BLAGKPIAQAI, OF 'UNIONTOW COMPANY, OF NEW CARRIER FOR FOUNDRY-LADLES.

No. 927,022. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 28, 1908. Serial No. 459,873.

Patented July 6, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE J. BLACKHAM, a citizen. of the United States, residing at Uniontown, county of Fayette, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carriers for Foundry-Ladies, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying (:lrawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to means for pouring metal into a plurality of gates upon a mold, and the object of the invention is to furnish a means of detachably supporting a plurality of ladles upon a hanger so that they may be readily transported upon a crane by means of the hanger, and simultaneously tipped while thus suspended to discharge the metal into a plurality of gates in a mold.

The invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side view of the apparatus with the ladles slightly tipped to commence pouring into the mold, which is shown diagrammatically in the lower part of this figure. Fig. 2 is an end view of the apparatus, and Fig. 3 is a plan of the device for holding and turning the ladle.

The hanger consists of a top bar a having an eye I) in the center to engage a hook 0 upon the chain at of a crane, the bar having three depending arms 6 provided each at the bot tom with a hook f.

The turning-bar for supporting and turning the ladles is formed with a central pivotpiece 9, a pivot end 7t and a turning shaft t having cross-bar with handles 76 at its opposite ends to turn the bar. The turning-bar is shown provided with two rings Z in which ladles m are shown fitted, the body of the ladle being made of tapering form and the interior of the rings Z correspondingly tapered to fit the same so that the ladles can be readily inserted in or removed from the ring. The ladles may, if desired, be formed with spouts a, as shown in Fig. 1.

The bearings g, h and t of the turning-bar are adapted to rest removably in the hooks 1 upon. the hanger-arms, and the turning-bar is thus removable from the hooks. The end pivot 7b is projected beyond its hanger-bearing so that it can be used in connection with the turning-shaft t to lift the turning-bar with the ladles out of the hanger when required. The portions of the turning-bar which rest in the hooks f form journals on which the ladles are journaled when pouring.

The top of the mold 0 is shown in Fig. 1 with two inlets or gates p centered the same as the centers of the rings Z upon the turningbars, so that when the ladles are suspended over the mold by means of the hanger and crane-hook, the metal from both the ladles can be poured into the gates simultaneously. It is obvious that more than two ladles can be used if the hanger be provided, as is requisite to sustain the weight properly, with hanger-arms at both sides of each ladle.

It will be obvious that the structure is exceedingly cheap, as the hanger is formed merely of round bar iron bent and welded into the required shape, and yet it serves to form a hanger in which a plurality of ladles can be supported removably and can be turned to pour from both the ladles simultaneously. Foundry ladles are made in many cases with carrying-handles at opposite sides; but such ladles cannot be removed from the handles for repairs or renewal, and it would be diflicult to apply such construction to a plurality of ladles.

In my invention, the turning-bar is not riveted or welded to the metal of the ladles, but is made separate and formed with as many rings in the same plane as are needed to support the required number of ladles, and this permits the ladles to be removed for repairs, alterations or renewal. In a compound ladle of this kind, such a construction is very desirable as the ladles are subject, in the course of time, to be burned out, while the turning-bar and rings are not exposed to any such wear.

Having thus .set forth the nature of the invention What is claimed herein is:

1. The combination, with an axial turning-bar having two 0 en rings thereon in the same plane, with la les fitted removably in the rings, of a hanger having at the center an eye to suspend it from a crane-hook, and three open hook-bearings to removably embrace the turning-bar between and at the outer sides of the rings which carry the ladles.

2. The combination, with an axial turning-bar having two open rings thereon in the same plane, with ladles fitted removably in the rings, of a wrought metal hanger made in one piece, having the top bar a with eye 6 at the center to suspend from a crane-hook, and three depending arms 0 having at the bottom open hooks f to embrace the turning-bar be of the hanger to permit the lifting of the tween and at the outer sides of the rings turning-bar and ladies from the hanger when which carry the ladies. required.

8. The combination, with an axial turn- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 15 ing-bar having two open rings thereon in the i my hand in the presence of two subscribing sameplane,withladlesfitted removablyinthe 1 witnesses. rings, of a hanger consisting of the straight top bar a with eye I) at the center, the arms (Z depending from the bar a with open hooks GEORGE J. BLAOKHAM.

Vitnesses:

10 f at the bottom, and the opposite ends of the g CnARLEs T. CRAMER,

turning-bar projecting from the-outer hooks GEORGE E. CRAMER.

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