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1868 Article-Samuel Rohrer, Portable Blacksmith's Forge |
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Scientific American 15 Jul 1868 pgs 33 & 47 |
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5/1/2012 2:09:01 PM |
Improvement in Portable Forges.
Portable forces, from their neatness of construction and handiness in operation, have in a great many cases belied their name, and become welcome fixtures in shops and manufactories. In our experience as a manufacturer of machinery and tools, we always gave them the preference, especially for light work, and used them rather than the unsightly masses of brick, cinders, and ashes, generally dignified with the name of forge, structures which are a perpetual eyesore to the tidy workmen. But we have never yet seen an apparatus that seemed to fulfill the requirements of a portable forge so fully as that which is herewith illustrated. The whole apparatus, with its adjuncts, is contained in a chest thirty-one by twenty inches, and weighing but one hundred and fifty-seven pounds. A very few minutes suffices to convert this chest into a perfect operative forge, and when it is necessary to remove it to another point, as in bridge building, repairing railroads, etc., the parts may be separated and packed for removal or transportation with equal celerity. The legs are removable, and with all the other pieces are held in appropriate places provided for each in the chest; the hearth, bonnet, windpipe, and other appliances, being contained in the same receptacle. When in use, the cover of the chest forms a support for the forge back and bonnet, and a fulcrum for the bellows lever, while the bellows is allowed free play by the lowering of one end of the chest bottom.
For the army, especially when on a march, for emigrant trains crossing the plains, for railroads, for dentists, silversmiths, bridge builders, and others, and on steamboats and ocean steamers, this portable forge is specially adapted. It has received the approval of United States army officers, after thorough trial at the government shops in Washington.
It was patented Dec. 27, 1804, through the Scientific American Patent Agency. Further information may be obtained by addressing the patentees, Samuel Rohrer or Wm. Carson, Palmyra, Mo. |
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1868 Samuel Rohrer, Portable Blacksmith's Forge
1868 Samuel Rohrer, Portable Blacksmith's Forge
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