Patents Assigned to Morgan Construction Company
  • Roll stand with separable roll parting adjustment module
    Patent number: 5743126
    Abstract: A roll stand for a rolling mill has a housing with a through opening. The housing rotatably supports a pair of roll shafts, at least one of which is journalled for rotation in the eccentric bores of interconnected sleeves. The roll shafts carry work rolls positioned in the through opening to define a roll pass therebetween. An adjustment mechanism is axially engageable with one of the interconnected sleeves to rotate both sleeves and thereby adjust the parting between the work rolls. The adjustment mechanism is contained in a module which is separably connected to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventors: Terence M. Shore, Harold E. Woodrow, Yoshio Kato
  • Stem coil pallet for making half weight coils
    Patent number: 5735477
    Abstract: In a rolling mill, a reforming chamber is positioned to receive rings of hot rolled steel rod descending along a vertical path from the delivery end of a conveyor onto a support on an underlying carrier. The carrier has an upstanding stem around which the rings accumulate to form a cylindrical coil. First, interceptor elements operate above the carrier to interrupt the descent of rings, and second interceptor elements supported on the carrier beneath the first interceptor elements operate to subdivide the coil being formed around the stem into upper and lower segments, with a gap therebetween occupied by the second intercepting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventors: T. Michael Shore, Raymond R. Starvaski, Melicher Puchovsky
  • Hydrodynamically lubricated eccentrically adjustable bearing
    Patent number: 5678931
    Abstract: A hydrodynamically lubricated assembly is disclosed for adjustably and rotatably supporting the journals of work roll pairs in the housing of a roll stand in a rolling mill. The assembly includes a pair of eccentric sleeves journalled for rotation in the housing. Inner sleeves containing journal bearings are rotatably received in the eccentric sleeves, and the work roll journals are rotatably received in the journal bearings. Hydrodynamic and optionally also hydrostatic fluid supply networks communicate with the journal/bearing interfaces via radial conduits in the inner sleeves and journal bearings. The inner sleeves are anchored against rotation, and the eccentric sleeves are rotatable to adjust the parting between the work rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventors: Harold E. Woodrow, Terence M. Shore
  • Modular rolling mill
    Patent number: 5595083
    Abstract: A modular rolling mill has a plurality of rolling units arranged in succession on a mill pass line, each rolling unit having multiple pairs of mechanically interconnected work rolls. A plurality of gear reduction units is arranged in succession alongside the mill pass line, each gear reduction unit being driven by a drive motor. Couplings detachably connect at least some of the rolling units to two successive gear reduction units, with the remainder of the rolling units being connected to single gear reduction units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1997
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventor: Terence M. Shore
  • High speed laying head
    Patent number: 5590848
    Abstract: A rolling mill laying head as a quill supported for rotation about its longitudinal axis between axially spaced first and second bearing assemblies. A laying pipe is carried by the quill for rotation therewith. The laying pipe has an entry section lying on the quill axis between the first and second bearing assemblies, and a three dimensionally curved intermediate section extending through and beyond the second bearing assembly to terminate at a delivery end spaced radially from the quill axis to define a circular path of travel. The dimension by which the laying pipe extends beyond the second bearing assembly is less than the diameter of the circular path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventors: Terence M. Shore, Harold E. Woodrow
  • Single strand block-type rolling mill
    Patent number: 5577405
    Abstract: A single strand block-type rolling mill has pairs of oppositely inclined work rolls arranged successively along a mill pass line to roll rod and bar products in a twist-free manner. A planar base structure extends in parallel relationship beneath the mill pass line. A plurality of housings are arranged seriatim along the mill pass line. The housings are secured to the base structure and have mutually overlapping portions secured to one another. Each housing includes intermediate drive components for driving a pair of roll shafts carrying one of the work roll pairs, with the intermediate drive components being mechanically coupled to each other and to a common mill drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventors: Terence M. Shore, Harold E. Woodrow
  • High speed shear for end trimming rods and the like
    Patent number: 5526726
    Abstract: Apparatus for shearing elongated products such as rods, bars and the like moving longitudinally along a path of travel. The apparatus includes a pair of constant diameter helical blades mounted for rotation about axes parallel to the path of travel. The rotational orientation of the blades and the spacing between their respective axes is such that segments of the blades coact along a cutting path parallel to the path of travel. The blades are rotated in opposite directions to thereby cause coacting segments thereof to move repetitively along the cutting path in the direction of product movement. A switch diverts the products from the path of travel across the cutting path for shearing by the coacting segments of the cutting blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventors: Terence M. Shore, Melicher Puchovsky, Harold E. Woodrow
  • Coil reforming chamber with auxiliary coil plate
    Patent number: 5501410
    Abstract: An auxiliary coil plate is mounted on and vertically adjustable with respect to the conventional elevator platform. The coil plate is designed to be raised into the coil forming chamber well above the level of the shear mechanism. By so doing, the ring free fall distance is beneficially reduced at an early stage in the coil formation cycle when the bottom most rings are being deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventor: Raymond R. Starvaski
  • Interlocked seal and sleeve for rolling mill oil film bearing
    Patent number: 5478090
    Abstract: In an oil film bearing assembly for a roll in a rolling mill, where a flexible seal is mounted on a tapered section of the roll neck at a location adjacent to a sleeve fixed to the roll neck and defining the journal surface, the improvement comprising an end portion of the sleeve being configured to overlap and radially confine an end portion of the seal to thereby resist centrifugal distortion of the seal during high speed rotation of the roll neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventors: Thomas E. Simmons, Charles L. Innis, Jr.
  • Rolling mill material handling system
    Patent number: 5423200
    Abstract: A rolling mill material handling system includes a cooling bed and an associated laying head and cooling conveyor. Hot rolled products may be cut into segments which are shifted laterally onto the cooling bed. Alternatively, the hot rolled products may be directed longitudinally in undivided lengths past the cooling bed to the laying head where they are formed into rings and deposited on the cooling conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1995
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventor: Terence M. Shore
  • Regenerative furnace system with variable flue port control
    Patent number: 5401165
    Abstract: A regenerative combustion furnace system including a combustion chamber, a pair of primary regenerators, a pair of secondary regenerators, and a gas flow assembly. The gas flow assembly provides gas flow to and from each of the secondary regenerators which are in communication with each respective primary regenerator, and each primary regenerator is in communication with the combustion chamber. Each of the secondary regenerators includes a plurality of flues and a plenum. Each flue includes a primary regenerator port, a plenum port, and a variable position valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventor: Daniel P. Smith
  • Method and apparatus for continuously hot rolling ferrous long products
    Patent number: 5325697
    Abstract: Long products are hot rolled and sized by being subjected to progressively diminishing area reductions in a succession of at least three mechanically interconnected two roll passes driven by a common mill drive. The area reductions are achieved by imparting a first cross sectional configuration to the products rolled in the first roll pass, and by imparting a different second cross sectional configuration to the products being rolled in each of the second and third roll passes. A wide range of product sizes is accommodated by selectively adjusting the speeds at which each of the roll passes is driven by the common mill drive in order to vary the drive speed ratios between successive roll passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventors: Terence M. Shore, Harold E. Woodrow, Melicher Puchovsky
  • Coolant guard for rolling mill oil film bearing assembly
    Patent number: 5316392
    Abstract: A coolant guard for a rolling mill bearing assembly has a base flange and an angularly disposed sealing flange, both molded integrally of an elastomeric material. The base flange is reinforced by an embedded metallic hoop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventor: Charles L. Innis, Jr.
  • Rod laying head with front and tail end ring control
    Patent number: 5312065
    Abstract: A laying head for forming axially moving elongated products into series of rings. The laying head includes an auxiliary guide which is readily dismantled from the laying head in order to accommodate the rolling of larger diameter slower speed products. The guide includes the provision of a helical extension of the guide path defined by the rotating three-dimensionally curved pipe of the laying head. The helical extension is subdivided into an outer cylindrical shroud surrounding the rotational path of the outlet end of the laying pipe, and an inner helical trough having its open side facing the shroud. The helical trough includes a central hub adapted to be detachably secured to the tubular pipe support carrying the laying pipe. The central hub and the tubular pipe support include coacting surfaces which insure that the components are reliably assembled for balanced rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventors: Terence M. Shore, Harold E. Woodrow
  • Multiple outlet finishing mill
    Patent number: 5307663
    Abstract: In a single strand rolling mill wherein a product is rolled in a twist-free manner through a succession of finishing stands before proceeding to a laying head, the finishing stands are grouped into at least first and second blocks arranged respectively along first and second non-aligned paths, with the laying head lying on the second path. Switches are employed to alternatively direct the product exiting from the first block either to the second path for continued rolling in the second block prior to being directed to the laying head, or along a third path bypassing the second block and leading directly to the laying head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventors: Terence M. Shore, Joseph R. Lawendowski
  • Finishing block with dual speed sizing capability
    Patent number: 5280714
    Abstract: A block type rolling mill having work roll pairs arranged along a rolling line to roll a single strand product in a twist-free manner, wherein the work roll pairs are driven by a common mill drive via a drive train which includes first and second line shafts extending in parallel relationship with the rolling line, and intermediate drive means for mechanically interconnecting two successive work roll pairs interposed between the two successive work roll pairs and the first and second line shafts, and first and second engagement means for alternatively connecting the intermediate drive means to one or the other of the first and second line shafts via respective first and second intermeshed gear sets having different gear ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1994
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventors: Terence M. Shore, Melicher Puchovsky
  • Loop distributor for reforming station
    Patent number: 5273231
    Abstract: A rolling mill reforming station has an annular chamber into which rings are dropped to accumulate in coil form. A guide member is rotated about a circular path surrounding the path of ring descent. The guide member has a three dimensionally curved guide surface configured in the general shape of a plow share which distributes the descending rings around the circumference of the accumulating coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventor: Raymond R. Starvaski
  • Split water box nozzle with removable inserts
    Patent number: 5257511
    Abstract: A water box is used to cool hot rolled products in a rolling mill. The water box includes a base structure supporting a removable manifold, and a plurality of nozzles removably mounted on and in fluid communication with the manifold. The nozzles are lined with inserts which may be replaced when worn. The manifold is reversible end to end, as are the nozzles, thus enabling the water box to be used on either of two parallel rolling lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventors: Terence M. Shore, Gerald A. Scerra
  • Combination cobble cover and guide trough for rolling mill
    Patent number: 5247820
    Abstract: A rolling mill has a roll stand with work rolls defining a roll pass. The roll stand is removably mounted at an operative position at which its roll pass is aligned with the mill rolling line. A cover assembly is configured and dimensioned to cooperate in a closed position with roll stand to enclose the work rolls. A guide trough is integrally associated with the cover assembly. The cover assembly is alternatively adjustable from its closed position to either an open position allowing access to the work rolls when the rolls stand is in its operative position, or to a guide position at which the guide trough is aligned with the mill rolling line when the roll stand is removed from its operative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1993
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventor: Louis T. Panaccione
  • Loop distributor for reforming station
    Patent number: RE35440
    Abstract: A rolling mill reforming station has an annular chamber into which rings are dropped to accumulate in coil form. A guide member is rotated about a circular path surrounding the path of ring descent. The guide member has a three dimensionally .[.curved.]. .Iadd.shaped .Iaddend.guide surface configured in the general shape of a plow share which distributes the descending rings around the circumference of the accumulating coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1997
    Assignee: Morgan Construction Company
    Inventor: Raymond R. Starvaski